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25-6790 Diego Castillo-Pedraza v. United States Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP appellate-decision circuit-court-review evidence-rule-404b judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing-review Was the Third Circuit decision to affirm the District Court's 404(b) Ruling and sentencing correct?
25-6758 Quintin Washington v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a one-man grand jury lacks subject-matter jurisdiction to issue an indictment when a judge initiates charges without statutory authorization
25A863 Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Florida 2026-02-02 Application appellate-review certification final-judgment judicial-procedure opinion-withdrawal state-court Whether a state appellate court's withdrawal and supersession of a prior opinion constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court review
25A857 John Paul Gomez v. David Ryan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application civil-rights dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se section-1983 vexatious-litigant Whether a federal court can impose vexatious-litigant restrictions on a pro se plaintiff's future filings after dismissing a Section 1983 civil rights…
25-6680 Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending IFP appellate-review brief-filing circuit-court due-process judicial-procedure procedural-validity Is a judgment issued by a Federal Appellate Circuit valid when the Appellant was never given the opportunity to file the Brief of Appeal?
25-892 Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived court-of-appeals judicial-procedure mandamus petition-for-rehearing procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules Whether a court of appeals may refuse to accept a timely petition for panel rehearing by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, contrary to …
25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant Whether States' Vexatious-Litigant Laws, specifically California's Vexatious-Litigant Law, are unconstitutional facial and as-applied challenges to fu…
25-6639 In Re Deon D. Colvin 2026-01-21 Pending IFP appellate-review circuit-court district-court judicial-procedure jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this matter, and is a writ of mandamus appropriate to direct the court to send the case …
25-6628 Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Summit County, et al. Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending IFP administrative-law custody-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-requirements Whether a magistrate's issuance of a dispositive custody and support order without a hearing violates due process and procedural requirements
25A816 Wilhemena J. Beary, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua J. Johnson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application en-banc fifth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the petitioner's underlying case
25-814 Assata Acey Hackman v. Inductev Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review evidence-review judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court-oversight Does the oversight of the US Supreme Court permit its lower courts to ignore submitted evidence in order to refuse pro se petitions?
25-6536 C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP article-iii due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-review report-recommendation substantial-rights Whether a magistrate's report and recommendation on dispositive matters without Article III judicial officer review violates a party's substantial due…
25-6522 Miguel Angel Macias-Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-review supreme-court-review Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be overruled and whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Erlinger …
25-793 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petition for rehearing and objections to Defendants' Bill of Costs
25-743 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-12-22 Pending constitutional-rights disbarment due-process judicial-procedure lawyer-discipline legal-ethics Whether a court with jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue disbarment orders without first addressing constitutional due process def…
25-6396 Javier Rivera Franco v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Pending IFP conviction-validity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sentencing-error Whether the trial court's failure to orally render and pronounce a sentence violates a defendant's due process rights and renders a 75-year conviction…
25-671 In Re Mark Christopher Tracy 2025-12-09 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry…
25-631 Jae S. Nah v. Andrew V. Jablon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response Waived copyright-discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-courts judicial-procedure remand-order Can DC and Appeal courts dismiss the complaint of the case 2:23-cv-06909 without further inquiry into the factual evidence of 5 courts and allegation …
25-6191 Duane E. Adams v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court Whether Adams' constitutional right to due process was violated when the trial court conducted a trial and entered a judgment without subject matter j…
25-6176 Melanie Nicole Moore v. Pooches of Largo, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-interpretation employment-law flsa-retaliation judicial-procedure minimum-wage wage-dispute Whether the district court's characterization of a wage complaint as a mere contract dispute improperly stripped the Petitioner of FLSA retaliation pr…
25-6156 Thomas J. Zajac v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance Whether the appellate court's modifications and omissions of facts and arguments constitute a fundamental departure from judicial proceedings warranti…
25A579 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Application certiorari judicial-procedure page-limits pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant may seek an extraordinary extension of page limits for a certiorari petition beyond the standard rules of Supreme Court proc…
25-6112 Luke Masood Arabzadegan v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court-discretion criminal-case filing-fee judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the 05th Circuit Court of Appeals and Travis County District Clerk's Office abused their discretion in filing and fee requirements for a crimi…
25A543 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access judicial-procedure pleading-requirements procedural-rules Whether a state court's procedural rules can impose heightened pleading requirements that potentially infringe on a petitioner's constitutional right …
25-6069 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-11-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal by preventing him from defending himself and depriving him of access to the Cour…
25-6045 In Re Rayfield J. Thibeaux 2025-11-06 Denied IFP civil-rights-litigation conviction-reversal court-of-appeals district-court-access due-process judicial-procedure Whether the District Court improperly denied access to court proceedings and civil rights litigation following a 1987 conviction overturned by the Tex…
25-555 SurfCast, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue 'opinion[s]' in PTAB appeals, is a reasoning giving directive that prohibits the …
25-6031 Michael McAfee v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure Whether a federal district court clerk's alleged failure to process legal documents constitutes a violation of due process rights under federal civil …
25A512 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Carlos Rosado, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Application appellate-review case-volume civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure petition-denial Whether a federal court can review the systematic denial of multiple civil rights claims by a lower appellate court based on procedural grounds
25-522 Ruby Tang v. Somerset House Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Maryland 2025-10-29 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-fees state-court Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to deny a statutorily guaranteed de novo evidentiary hearing after collecting the required fees, …
25-5945 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-10-23 Denied IFP court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-void QP: Whether the August 21,2025 proceedings by the District Court clerk and United States District Court are void due to procedural irregularities
25-5926 Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-representation separation-of-powers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's summary denial of a stay of execution conflicts with Supreme Court precedents requiring reasoned balancing of factors i…
25-5881 John Fakla v. Matthew Geist, Middlesex Borough Police Chief, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights favorable-termination heck-doctrine judicial-procedure malicious-prosecution section-1983 Whether the district court and court of appeals erred by applying Heck v. Humphrey to bar petitioner's § 1983 malicious prosecution claim, despite the…
25-5862 Byron Reyes-Ayala v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and grant certiorari in light of Erlinger v. United States
25-5856 Cheryl Steele v. Micah Salb District of Columbia 2025-10-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-notice due-process judicial-procedure personal-service property-rights writ-of-execution Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision in Steele vs Saib conflicts with Supreme Court precedents on due process notice requirement…
25-363 Victor Manuel Castro-Aleman, aka Alfredo Quinones Olmo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Amici (2) discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-procedure removal-proceedings Whether an immigration judge's failure to inform an alien of the right to seek discretionary relief from removal violates due process and thus can con…
25-5693 Yasmani Gurri Rubio v. City of Alexandria, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure rule-12b3 statutory-interpretation venue-dismissal Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when a federal district court dismisses an action with prejudice for improper venue …
25-5687 Curtis Gorham v. Michael Alan Jenkins, et al. Florida 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights healthcare-liability judicial-procedure medical-malpractice mental-illness pro-se-litigation Whether a mentally ill pro se litigant's repeated medical malpractice and civil rights claims against multiple healthcare providers and institutions c…
25-252 Jalina Fluellen v. David Krasn, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied administrative-procedure-act article-iii-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure rule-5.1 Whether the District Court violated Rule 5.1 and due process by dismissing a constitutional challenge without notifying the state attorney general or …
25-5530 Edmond George Parenteau v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP color-of-law constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure right-to-travel statutory-authority Whether the United States and States are acting outside their statutory authority regarding the constitutional right to travel and the conversion of t…
25-5505 Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-jurisdiction first-amendment judicial-procedure removal-statute supreme-court-precedent Whether satisfying the second prong of Georgia v. Rachel requires a formal state statute or if systemic judicial practices and procedural barriers may…
25A212 Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-22 Application appellate-review constitutional-rights domain-transfer due-process judicial-procedure preliminary-injunction Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a district court from compelling a party to testify through preselected deposition excerpts while barring tha…
25A177 William Lanier v. Guy Bosch, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete appellate-court certiorari-period electronic-filing judicial-procedure supreme-court-rule time-extension Whether a federal appellate court's opinion triggers the standard 60-day certiorari period under Supreme Court Rule 10.2 when the underlying judgment …
25-154 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Whether the Rhode Island Supreme Court's interpretation of interlocutory appeals and disbarment proceedings violated constitutional due process and Fi…
25-148 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-guarantees due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Whether the Rhode Island Supreme Court's interpretation of interlocutory appeals and judicial procedure unconstitutionally violated the Petitioner's d…
25A163 Cheryl Steele v. Micah Salb District of Columbia 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete attorney-of-record en-banc-review judicial-procedure mandate-recall notice-requirements pro-se-representation Whether a pro se litigant can challenge a court of appeals mandate when not timely informed by counsel about potential en banc review options
25A140 Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports Sixth Circuit 2025-08-04 Presumed Complete certiorari judicial-procedure petition sixth-circuit supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under 28 U.S.C. § 2101(c)
25-5244 Kristy Richard v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
25A117 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability that would have allowed further review of a potentially me…
25-94 Angela DeBose v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-error district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-judge motion-to-dismiss rule-65 Whether the district court properly dismissed and closed the case if the case was filed in the wrong court, rather than transfer it to the correct cou…
25A33 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari filing-deadline judicial-procedure supreme-court time-extension Whether a federal appellate court's judgment can be challenged through a petition for writ of certiorari after the standard filing deadline
25-5038 Nicholas Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-deceit collateral-estoppel federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure new-york-law statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should recognize the cursory nature of facts to prevent collateral estoppel under Marrese and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 in attorney dece…
25-16 Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-03 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err in affirming the district court's order regarding attorney's fees and costs?
24-7519 Frederick S. Koger v. Charles E. Kleidon, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal judicial-procedure mental-health perjury police-misconduct statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner's post-traumatic stress disorder and alleged judicial failure to consider case merits justify dismissal with prejudice, and whe…
24-7484 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida 2025-06-25 Denied IFP court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standards pro-se-litigation Do the courts in Florida deny due process, equal protection, and meaningful access to the courts for pro se, non-prisoner litigants?
24-1291 Ariel Dalton v. Edgewood Police Department, et al. Indiana 2025-06-18 Denied case-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure plaintiff-rights pretrial-compliance trial-court-discretion Does a trial court violate a plaintiff's due process rights by dismissing a case for inactivity when a trial date has already been set and the plainti…
24-1256 Gary Robinson v. Jerry N. Higgins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-09 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights tax-lien Whether the state of Kentucky violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enforcing an illegal tax lien, depriving the petitioner o…
24-7377 Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to review a potential violation of the Supremacy Clause by the District Court of New Jersey
24-1226 S. G. S. v. S. F. Illinois 2025-06-03 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a hea…
24-1225 LaWanda D. Small v. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a Minnesota Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-06-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certification-standard federalism-interests judicial-procedure ninth-circuit state-law-certification Whether a federal court must consider federalism interests when asked to certify important and unresolved questions of state law
24-1197 Tarek Farag v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review climate-change declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-procedure scientific-evidence Whether the Appellate Court improperly ruled on climate change claims and denied declaratory and injunctive relief
24-1163 LaWanda Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing cares-act confidentiality-statute federal-law-interpretation judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge Whether procedures under the CARES Act section 3221 are technically jurisdictional and whether Article III standing can be challenged at any stage of …
24-1168 M. D., By Next Friend, Sarah R. Stukenberg, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-contempt compliance court-order due-process judicial-procedure sanctions Whether civil contempt sanctions imposed through proceedings that undisputedly comported with civil due process may be affirmed even if the contempt o…
24-7164 Martin B. Brown v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure procedural-fairness Whether the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violated due process and equal protection rights by granting an untimely brief extension and issuing a pote…
24-7154 Michele Kimberly Harris, et vir v. Springfield Housing Authority, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied IFP administrative-law billing-dispute civil-rights fair-housing-act forma-pauperis judicial-procedure Whether Judge Beth Phillips correctly ruled on a forma pauperis application and applied appropriate case law in a civil rights dispute involving city …
24-7140 David C. Lettieri v. Lawrence Joseph Vilardo Second Circuit 2025-05-06 Dismissed IFP court-access habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mail-delivery procedural-relief title-28 What relief is possible for mail that isn't properly delivered?
24A1072 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-05-06 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure state-supreme-court Whether a state supreme court's summary disbarment order violates an attorney's constitutional due process rights when the underlying disciplinary pro…
24-1121 Robert S. Carlborg v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure military-retirement property-interest stare-decisis Whether petitioner was deprived of a property interest in military retirement under the Due Process Clause when the court of appeals did not follow st…
24-7055 Willie Lee HavMmeri v. Methodist Health Systems, Dallas Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP covid-19-tolling employment-discrimination equitable-tolling judicial-procedure pro-se-filing right-to-sue Whether the COVID-19 pandemic and federal lockdowns constitute a valid basis for equitable tolling of filing deadlines in a pro se employment discrimi…
24-6922 Lorenzo Vazquez-Alba v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-criminal-law illegal-entry immigration-law judicial-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the district court properly enter judgment under both 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2)?
24-1041 In Re Sally Priester 2025-04-01 Dismissed appellate-review constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure writ-of-mandamus Whether the Court should issue a writ of mandamus directing the First Circuit to proceed with its duty to rule on an appeal stayed for twenty-two mont…
24-6912 Kenneth R. Talley, et al. v. Judith C. Horn, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se Does a lack of basic literacy skills have significant legal implications for an elderly individual's ability to act as a lawyer to represent himself, …
24-6873 Roland C. Anderson v. General Motors LLC Third Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal court-deadline due-process judicial-procedure legal-equity time-bar Whether a court's failure to dismiss a case for missed deadlines constitutes a due process violation
24A914 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing California 2025-03-25 Presumed Complete appellate-relief certiorari judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's request for a sixty-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary re…
24-6810 Faouzi Jaber v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-dismissal constitutional-rights court-ruling judicial-procedure legal-argument procedural-due-process Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process when the lower courts entered a ruling dismissing his claim without providing an opportunity …
24-6806 Torrey-Tyree Lewis v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society Pennsylvania 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-seizure replevin Does the seizure of all the Petitioners' belongings, without providing notice or obtaining consent, and based on a writ that wasn't addressed to the P…
24-999 Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-03-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-court federal-certification federalism judicial-procedure state-law Whether a federal court must consider federalism interests when asked to certify important and unresolved questions of state law, and whether the Nint…
24-6779 Daniel E. Hall v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. First Circuit 2025-03-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-integrity fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure legal-remedy local-rule rule-60 How does the Supreme Court define and address instances of fraud upon the court, the required duty to apply Local Rule 83.1(a), the required procedure…
24-984 Ross Horsey v. American Finance, LLC Delaware 2025-03-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-upon-court judicial-delay judicial-procedure Whether a 105-day delay by a judge in responding to a court letter constitutes a failure of due process
24-6751 Victoria Lunn Jones v. Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated Fourth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-jurisdiction eeoc-guidelines judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant service-of-process summary-judgment Was the Respondent's Reply to Plaintiff's Response In Opposition to Defendants Motion for Summary Judgment filed on September 13, 2023, but the proces…
24-6734 Christina Alexandria Taylor-Loper v. Sam's Club/Walmart Associates, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities appellate-review certification civil-rights judicial-procedure ninth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying certification of a case involving Americans with disabilities
24-945 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-issue default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-procedure pre-answer-motion void-judgment Whether bombing courts or shooting judges is a holy mission to counter a corrupt judicial system?
24-6631 Charles Lord v. Heather Lord New York 2025-02-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-procedure proof-of-service Whether an unsigned and undated child support order can be used to make another child support order without a hearing or proper service
24-6602 Amia Young-Trezvant v. Lone Star College System Fifth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied IFP court-documents due-process equal-access fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure notification-systems Did the lower court's failure to ensure timely delivery of judgment and opinion documents violate due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, a…
24-6592 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-orders-doctrine court-transfer federal-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is required to vacate a transfer order if transfer violated 28 U.S.C. §1631
24-6583 Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-6559 Ignacio Leyva-Frayre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be overruled and whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Erlinger …
24A765 Kevin Razzoli v. Richmond University Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-06 Presumed Complete daubert-hearing due-process expert-testimony judicial-procedure medical-malpractice pro-se Whether the district and appellate courts violated a pro se plaintiff's due process rights by failing to conduct a Daubert hearing in a medical malpra…
24-6456 Doran Maurice Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mississippi-law Question not identified.
24-6459 Kyle Anthony Shephard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review consent-review criminal-law due-process judicial-procedure standard-of-review Should the voluntariness of a defendant's consent always be reviewed de novo?
24-6402 Colby McCoggle v. Florida Florida 2025-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing due-process hearing-rights judicial-procedure mandatory-sentence notice-requirement Is a criminal defendant denied due process when a court imposes a new mandatory sentence without affording notice or a hearing?
24-6342 A. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights judicial-procedure Whether the lower court's de novo review of constitutional claims violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights and right to a fai…
24-772 Jeffrey Solomon Chijioke-Uche v. Chapman Chevrolet LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied constitutional-fairness evidence-presentation federal-questions interlocutory-orders judicial-procedure pro-se-rights Whether conflicting interlocutory orders from two district court judges violate a pro se litigant's constitutional rights and judicial procedural cons…
24-6249 Taiming Zhang v. Andrew Joseph Bonomolo Fourth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-subversion due-process federal-circuit-rules judicial-procedure magistrate-judge-authority supreme-court-precedent Whether federal magistrate judges can issue dispositive orders without parties' consent and whether Supreme Court precedent has been systematically su…
24-679 GMAG, L.L.C., et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Court-Appointed Receiver for The Stanford International Bank Limited Fifth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equitable-claim judicial-procedure jury-finding procedural-fairness Whether a court deciding an equitable claim can disregard a jury's factual finding on a common issue without notice or an opportunity to be heard
24-6190 Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a 'substantial interference with the admi…
24A609 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process fair-labor-standards-act judicial-procedure res-judicata rule-41 Whether a federal appellate court can dismiss a plaintiff's claims by mischaracterizing their legal arguments and failing to address substantive due p…
24-660 Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. Massachusetts 2024-12-18 Denied Response Waived appeals-court constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-fees religious-freedom Whether the Massachusetts Appeals Court violated the Petitioner's First Amendment religious freedom rights and improperly awarded legal fees
24A571 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition state-court-judgment Whether the district court and appellate courts properly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing the state court's denial of petitioner's…
24-611 Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied 10th-circuit constitutional-rights deposition-order interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure magistrate-jurisdiction Whether the 10th Circuit of Appeals may arbitrarily deprive Petitioner of Constitutional rights for appeal by abusing judicial procedure
24-590 Brian Kelsey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split error-preservation judicial-procedure plea-agreement preservation-standard What must one say to preserve an error for appellate review and does Holguin-Hernandez apply beyond sentencing reasonableness?
24-6045 Shawn M. Berila v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-rights report-and-recommendation Whether a petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights are violated when a district court does not allow an extension to object to a report an…
24A501 Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing-doctrine vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted standing doctrine and due process requirements in post-enforcement constitutional challenges to state…
24-5964 In Re Daniel E. Hall 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure local-rule-83.1 mandamus rule-60 writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will address fraud upon the court, procedural requirements under Local Rule 83.1(a), voiding proceedings under Rule 60, and …
24-5931 Terrell Dashaun Wesley v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-trial closing-arguments herring-error judicial-procedure trial-rights verdict-timing Whether a reversible Herring error occurs when a trial judge permits closing arguments only after announcing a verdict
24-518 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue 'opinion[s]' in PTAB appeals, is a reason-giving directive that prohibits the Fed…
24-5928 Erick Gachuhi Wanjiku v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se right-to-counsel voir-dire Whether a pro se litigant's right to due process was violated when the court failed to appoint counsel and declined to rule on all issues presented
24-5894 Robert S. Pierce v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rule-10c supreme-court-precedent Whether state and federal courts can operate by void judgment and without authority to maintain convictions in violation of Rule 10(c) while disregard…
24-479 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived case-caption circuit-court defendant-naming district-court judicial-procedure jurisdictional-issue Whether the Circuit Judges erred in changing the defendants' case caption and failing to detect a purported jurisdictional 'key' in a district court p…
24-5801 In Re Frank Edwin Pate 2024-10-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure search-warrant Can lower courts delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus while maintaining Constitutional adherence?
24A366 Angela Dubose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete discovery-stay due-process injunction judicial-procedure preliminary-hearing vexatious-litigant Whether a district court can indefinitely stay discovery without a hearing and without providing an opportunity for the plaintiff to gather necessary …
24-5711 Jesse Regalado v. Town of Trion, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-rights copyright-law eminent-domain federal-rules governmental-immunity judicial-procedure Whether federal rules 60(b) and 60(d)(3) protect petitioners from fraudulent judgments and whether the government can deny citizens contracts and use …
24-5657 In Re Charles Kafeiti 2024-09-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-detention Can lower courts delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus while maintaining Constitutional adherence to such relief?
24-314 Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Connecticut 2024-09-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-procedure procedural-due-process Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's appeal petition violates due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments by uphold…
24-5555 Jermall Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review government-motion judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-action summary-judgment third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion for Summary Action
24-5542 Timothy Allen Honea v. Fred Webb, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied IFP appellate-review court-jurisdiction judicial-procedure legal-documents service-of-process writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States Court of Appeals improperly denied a petition for writ of certiorari related to judicial procedure and service of legal docu…
24-275 Donte Parrish v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-12 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) appeal-period district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation Whether a litigant must file a second notice of appeal after the appeal period is reopened under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c)
24-5516 Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure Question not identified.
24-5510 Dawayne Rolin Walker v. Michigan Michigan 2024-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure witness-testimony Question not identified.
24-5440 Edward Moses, Jr. v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Louisiana 2024-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline confrontation-clause due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics professional-misconduct Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated Edward Moses Jr.'s due process rights in suspending his law license without adequate confrontation
24-231 Rakesh Dhingra v. Charles Esposito, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation fact-finding federal-officials judicial-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the civil district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil complaint without conducting fact-f…
24-212 Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union, et al. Alabama 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights state-court-jurisdiction Whether the Alabama Supreme Court's reversal of a lower court's order granting a deed to the Archers violates their constitutional rights to due proce…
24-5208 In Re Daimeyahn Stevenson 2024-08-01 Denied IFP arbitrary-order case-review civil-procedure court-authority due-process erroneous-order judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-divesting legal-jurisdiction procedural-error standing Whether a court may divest itself of lawful jurisdiction by an erroneous or arbitrary order
24-5213 Gilbert Campa v. Ingrid Rosenquist, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal holidays judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review prejudice procedural-error time-limits Question not identified
24-5168 Edward Nicholas Reeder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability court-order final-order habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure motion-disposition motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-withdrawal trial-counsel voluntary-dismissal Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to object and request that the lower court to address the disposition of Reeder's motion to withdraw plea by…
24-85 Merrilee Stewart v. Kim J. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights hearing-requirement housing-rights judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-rights standing urban-housing-rights due-process
24-76 David Hill, Individually and dba DOH Oil Company v. Huntley Fort Gill, et al. Texas 2024-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-notice due-process judicial-procedure notice property-rights statute-of-limitations tax-foreclosure Whether a statute can limit the time to challenge a tax sale for lack of constitutionally adequate notice to the owner, provided that the statute does…
24-5091 Linda J. Feaser v. George L. Landress Connecticut 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
24-5049 Irena Shie v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-07-11 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act communication-disability deprivation-of-constitutional-rights-under-color-o equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech judicial-procedure meaningful-participation-in-justice-system petition-government-for-redress-of-grievances reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations equal-protection-under-law
24-28 Iona Howard v. Amica Mutual Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response Waived act-of-war civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-procedure legislative-overreach maladministration national-security standing Violation-of-constitutional-rights
24A17 Richard Rynn v. First Transit Incorporated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure motion-to-vacate ninth-circuit pro-se Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process by failing to address the merits of a pro se litigant's motions and improperly restric…
24A22 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights court-filing due-process judicial-procedure motion-to-vacate ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional due process rights by failing to address his motion to vacate and …
23-7788 Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7771 Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho Idaho 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court Is the Idaho state court in violation of the Brady-v-maryland rule by changing the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing the th…
23-1330 Michael Stern, et ux. v. Mark Mcdonald Washington 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction certiorari constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-procedure judicial-review state-courts supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Washington's order to deny review violate the United States Constitution?
23-7749 Carlos Enrique Lopez-Soto v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal due-process government-objection judicial-procedure notice notice-of-judgment standing timeliness Whether the Court of Appeals could dismiss an action based on untimely notice where (1) the district court's judgment was never notified, and (2) in t…
23A1116 John Phillip Bender v. Texas Texas 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal discretionary-review due-process judicial-procedure state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and Supreme Court of Texas violated the petitioner's due process rights by refusing discretionary review o…
23-7731 In Re Jack Carpenter, III 2024-06-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-liberties competence competency-evaluation constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation presumption-of-jurisdiction procedural-error Question not identified
23-7729 Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact?
23A1103 Rahim Caldwell v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims dismissal judicial-procedure no-bid-contracts notice-of-deficiencies pro-se Whether federal courts are required to provide pro se litigants specific notice of pleading deficiencies before dismissing their complaints
23-7664 Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit administrative-review agency-decision appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure judicial-procedure jury-trial mandamus pending-motions remand Question not identified.
23-1263 Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure complaint-screening dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure screening standing statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(b)(ii) allow screening or dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints before service of process and defendants' ans…
23-7599 Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7537 Mike Austin Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict motion-to-revoke recusal-motion standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return a guilty verdic…
23-7526 Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Program Director, Haskins Residential Care Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-witness judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings motion-timing standards-of-review Whether the lower court erred in allowing the defendant to introduce a crucial piece of evidence, an expert witness's report, after the closing of mot…
23-7510 Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court Whether a court applied the correct standard in dismissing a complaint alleging a violation of the Indian Civil Rights Act
23-7506 Alicia L'Esperance v. Chloe Thibodeau New Hampshire 2024-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines fair-housing judicial-procedure landlord-tenant notification notification-requirements property search Whether any State or judicial body should be allowed to violate Constitutional Rights
23-7468 Joe Ernest Robinson v. Texas Texas 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-review scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation Can a defendant be convicted under laws that are vague and overbroad?
23-7463 Maria Meeker v. Marrison Family Law, LLC Colorado 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act judicial-procedure legal-standing Does a court's requirement for a Certificate of Review defeat a citizen's Seventh Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment rights?
23-7438 Anthony Espinosa Gonzales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review computer-generated-evidence conviction court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-authentication evidentiary-standards federal-rule-of-evidence-901(b)(9) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure Did the court of appeals' ratification of the use of computer-generated evidence to convict petitioner represent a clear departure from the requiremen…
23-7418 James Dow Vandivere v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied IFP adam-walsh-act burden-of-proof civil-commitment due-process foucha-v-louisiana judicial-procedure kansas-v-hendricks liberty-interest Whether the lower courts have impermissibly shifted the burden of proof from the Government to a citizen-detainee at a release hearing under the Adam …
23-7346 Oksana Marinaro v. Zimmer & Lewis, Attorneys & Counselor at Law Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-authority judicial-procedure procedural-rights separation-of-powers state-statutes Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute?
23A970 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard capital-murder ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining Whether the Eleventh Circuit and state courts improperly applied the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Missouri v. Frye by denying reli…
23-1134 Mark Habelt v. iRhythm Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal case-dismissal civil-procedure dismissal financial-stake judicial-procedure legal-redress litigation-appeal plaintiff-standing redress standing Does a named plaintiff who initiated a suit from which he was never dismissed or removed, who retains a financial stake in the litigation's outcome, a…
23-7232 Quotez Tyvick Pair v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial Can a United States District Court's general order suspend rights under the Constitution of the United States of America?
23-7209 Angela L. McCarthy v. Walmart Inc. Seventh Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure denial due-process judicial-procedure petition petition-denial rehearing rehearing-request standing Why was the petition for rehearing denied on January 17th, 2024?
23-7183 In Re Joshua George Nowland 2024-04-10 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason Whether the US Supreme Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed on its property in Washington D.C.?
23-7189 A. R. P. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-10 Denied IFP baker-act civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandamus representation Did Florida's Supreme Court err in denying the application for a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus without first dealing with the constitutional i…
23-1083 Shula Waxwoman, fka Shlomit Ruttkamp v. The Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Connecticut 2024-04-04 Denied constitutional-protection covid-19 due-process equal-protection eviction-stay foreclosure foreclosure-moratorium fraud-misrepresentation judicial-procedure property-rights state-of-emergency Whether the lifting of COVID-19 foreclosure moratoriums deprives individuals of due process and equal protection
23-7113 Nicholas Butler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure legal-standing procedural-rights standing Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal?
23-7109 Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7067 In Re Timothy Stratton 2024-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing Whether a defendant may be charged to find guilty where all of the necessary elements of a crime are not included in the jury's charge
23-7054 Robert N. Young v. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust attorney-misconduct court-sanctions doj-fraud-recoveries false-claims-act judicial-procedure medicaid-drug-rebates medicaid-fraud qui-tam whistleblower-rights Question not identified
23-7025 Stevie Wyre v. Texas Texas 2024-03-19 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure record-examination right-to-counsel standard-of-review state-court Whether the state court denied the petitioner due process by presenting a close or misleading testimony by the state's witness and without a review of…
23-7032 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure petition-renaming recusal rule-60-b standing Was judge allowed to rename petition
23-7012 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure morris-defendant post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers standing treaty-rights Whether Oklahoma's Post-Conviction Procedure Act is adequate
23-7007 Howard T. Tyson, Sr. v. Kris Y. Lee, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-orders judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings pro-se-appellant standing why-do-courts-fail-to-follow-supreme-court-opinions-on-pro-se-motions-to-dismiss
23-6995 Rosaura Strous v. Superior Court of California, Yuma County Ninth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process employment-law judicial-procedure sexual-discrimination sexual-harassment standing What claims did you raise to the court below?
23-6981 Ezekiel Davis v. Shadid Ansari, Individually and in His Official Capacity as GEO/LCF Medical Director, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure legal-issue medical-injury standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the 2 writs Cocret Abiwst A rts asceetybn denigihtg psbbaucn > Ln Foren (2 'goes' Hp); eshen! 4 Avr ewig sypnen| oat He vectrfs , hokditg (2 L…
23-993 Peter Kleidman v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-03-12 Denied court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection error-prone-decisions judicial-procedure legal-precedent mathews-factors new-rule-of-law no-citation-rule uncitable-decisions Whether California's No-citation Rule is unconstitutional
23-999 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
23-6904 Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli…
23-6868 David Wayne Nelson v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct Did the U.S. court of appeals err in its rulings on the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
23-932 Minna-Marie Brandt v. Damian Caracciolo Fourth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied child-abduction circuit-court-split country-of-residence custody-rights hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law judicial-procedure treaty-interpretation wrongful-retention Did the Fourth Circuit below err in concluding—in conflict with the text of the Hague Convention and the cases of this Court and six other circuits'—t…
23A765 Malcolm H. Sage, Individually and in His Capacity as Partner or Joint Venturer of Sage Associates and Sage Realty v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Second Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete bankruptcy certiorari judicial-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension trustee-powers Whether a bankruptcy trustee has the authority to seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline
23-6758 Frank Bernard Johnson v. Virginia Virginia 2024-02-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-competency pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel Is compulsory pro se representation lawful in criminal trials?
23-6760 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention Can a State Trial Court open a CHINS proceeding against Defendant without the pre-requisite family/dating/household relationship + persistent conduct …
23A751 Samuel D. Isaly v. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete certiorari judicial-procedure petition second-circuit supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period
23-6734 C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration Fourth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-review article-iii certification certification-of-appeal civil-procedure de-novo-review judicial-procedure standing stay substantial-rights Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of appea…
23-6718 Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own rules of criminal procedure retroactively by applying a new rule to Petitioner's post-conviction proceedings
23-857 Owolabi M. Salis v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-02-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure new-york-court-of-appeals referee referee-report Whether the New York Court of Appeals can adopt a Referee report that was clearly based on violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amend…
23-858 Merrilee Stewart v. Sentinel Insurance Company Ltd., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-fraud due-process fraud judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Does the dismissal of a case violate the Seventh Amendment when the judge decides issues reserved for a jury, grants favoritism to a corporation, and …
23-6682 Karyn M. Kelley v. Kevin M. Kelley New Hampshire 2024-02-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-attachment judicial-procedure property-rights standing Did the highest state court err in affirming orders that deprived the petitioner of property without a hearing or due process?
23-6525 Michael Dukes v. E.M.S.A. HSA Stephanie Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-proceedings due-process evidence extraordinary-circumstances judicial-procedure legal-standard material-evidence obstruction obstruction-of-justice standing Does obstruction preventing dispositive material evidence from being presented in court constitute 'extraordinary circumstances'?
23-786 Jon Myers v. Sondra Myers, et al. Massachusetts 2024-01-23 Denied Relisted (2) abuse civil-rights consent-denial due-process emotional-distress family-dispute intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress judicial-procedure legal-rights standing tort-claim Whether in denying Jon Myers' consent to file a lawsuit
23-6509 Jonathan Joseph Good v. Wendi Walworth, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-charging-document civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure magistrate notice notice-requirement rule-83 summary-judgment Whether the denial of notice to file an answer to a motion for summary judgment violates due process and Rule 83
23-777 Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court First Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger Whether the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in refusing to enter a default judgment against the respondents when the Maine Attorney Ge…
23-764 Facebook, Inc. v. Rosemarie Vargas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction Iqbal judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-precedent plausibility plausibility-standard standing Twombly Does the Twombly-Iqbal plausibility standard apply to a plaintiff's allegations of Article III standing?
23-766 Scott Douglas Ora v. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce California 2024-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review burden-of-proof conditions-precedent due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver Did the Court of Appeal violate the due process rights of Appellant?
23-772 David Andrew Bardes v. George W. Bush, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process federal-dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se standing supreme-court Why does the Constitution, or laws of any kind, not apply to George Walker BUSH or 'his associates? Why has the Constitution failed? Why does the Supr…
23-6457 Peter Grigg v. Barbara Benson Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standards standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses were violated
23-745 In Re Henry L. Klein 2024-01-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-review attorney-discipline attorney-regulation axon-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure louisiana-supreme-court sec-v-cochran supremacy-clause Did the Louisiana Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause by denying Petitioner's request to enforce Axon v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran as the supreme …
23-6423 Jasper Frazier v. Christina Reagle, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the United States District Court err in law by failing to consider exculpatory evidence in the record
23-701 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-29 Dismissed Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writs judicial-procedure jurisdiction mandamus prohibition standing test-condition writ Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus or prohibition
23-6329 Russell G. Finnegan v. David L. Chidester Seventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure jurisdiction pro-se-litigation signature-requirement standing Are the orders from the Court of Appeals valid absent an authorized signature of a judicial officer?
23-6334 Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. California 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution interlocutory-order judicial-procedure state-court state-courts statutory-provisions Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs / offense / invalidate Federal Constitution and Due processes?
23-6338 Marc Fishman v. New York New York 2023-12-22 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard order-of-protection parental-rights parenting procedural-due-process right-to-bear-arms Whether New York State's statutory framework violates procedural due process
23-679 Gene Rechtzigel v. Green Valley Development, LLP, et al. Minnesota 2023-12-22 Denied boundary-determination constitutional-rights due-process full-and-fair-trial judicial-procedure land-boundary property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Did the state courts deprive the petitioner of due-process, property-rights, constitutional-rights, statutory-rights, full-and-fair-trial, boundary-de…
23-663 Gary Lynn McDuff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-integrity judicial-procedure record-keeping structural-error violation-of-constitution Is it a structural error and a violation of the Constitution for a district court clerk to verify receipt of exhibits submitted in support of a §2255 …
23-6252 Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6239 Christopher Everson v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court independent-action judicial-procedure mandate-rule rule-60 timing timing-limitations Is the filing of an independent action under FRCP 60(d)(1) for fraud on the court distinguishable from FRCP 60(b)(3) fraud?
23A528 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. California 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete appellate-relief certiorari judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's request for a sixty-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary re…
23-618 Delano Marco Medina v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standard whether-it-is-consistent-with-due-process-to-convict-a-criminal-defendant-without-finding-the-defendant-is-guilty
23-621 Gerald F. Lackey, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-08 Judgment Issued Amici (19)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1988 civil-rights injunction-standard judicial-procedure legal-merits merits preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation Whether a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as opposed to merely predicting a likelihood of later success,…
23-6114 Andre Jackson v. California California 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights court-opinion due-process evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-issue legal-relief procedural-error record-development Whether APPELLATE Counsel's PERFORMANCE WAS deFiciut uNneteR StrickiANnd
23A466 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University First Circuit 2023-11-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review first-circuit judicial-procedure supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the First Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under Supreme C…
23-549 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd…
23-6083 Chalmer Detling, II, aka Chuck Detling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard speedy-trial-act sua-sponte summary-reversal supervisory-power Was the panel's decision proper in light of Day v. McDonough?
23-536 Kendall Merlo v. Ingrid Warren, Presiding Judge, Probate Court No. 2, Dallas County, Texas Texas 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived competency competency-hearing due-process estate-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-procedure notice pleadings probate-court sua-sponte Does a state trial court violate due process by appointing a guardian ad litem for the adult beneficiary of an estate, who is presumed to be competent…
23-5981 Nestor Leon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts amendment-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal standing Did the district court err in not granting the petitioner an evidentiary hearing before the record conclusively declined that the petitioner was not e…
23-5924 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. American Medical Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-crime genocide human-rights international-law judicial-procedure standing whistleblower-protection Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and due process violations
23-5928 Michael David Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process initial-appearance judicial-procedure legal-representation magistrate-judge right-to-counsel Can a magistrate judge force counsel upon a defendant without consent?
23-5929 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction parole sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the construction of the Aggregate Series & the Pot of Aid Parole Release is constitutional
23-5887 Arthur Vasquez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Supreme Court of the United States has jurisdiction to review the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
23-5895 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default speedy-trial standing state-court Speedy and effective adjudication of habeas corpus rights
23-433 Joyce Daniels, as the Administrator of the Estate of Mark Daniels, Deceased v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment unsworn-testimony wrongful-death Whether the trial court should have relied on the officer's unsworn interview in a wrongful death action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
23-5855 Regina Tate v. Hamilton County Election Commission Sixth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-counsel pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Dismissal should be reconsidered for failure to appoint legal counsel
23-5771 Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Ken Maynard, III, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process failure-to-state-claim frivolous-claims judicial-procedure medical-error medical-malpractice procedural-due-process standing Did the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas err in dismissing Plaintiff's Civil Rights violation complaint?
23-5777 Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5780 Denis Chavez v. Florida Florida 2023-10-12 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid
23-5747 Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals properly denied Petitioner due process and Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to consider newly discov…
23-5728 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge standing state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court correctly dismissed a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. 2255 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
23-5703 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. ABN AMRO, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation property property-rights takings tax-assessment Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the district attorney, court, and tax assessors conspired to deprive the petitioner of …
23-285 Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Tyson Foods Incorporated, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied antitrust-law appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine district-court federal-antitrust-law judicial-procedure private-enforcement public-interest standing Does a district court order permitting significant interference with private enforcement of federal antitrust law implicate an interest sufficiently i…
23-5633 Demetrius Verardi Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process factual-error judicial-procedure magistrate-judge objection-standard report-and-recommendation waiver Does the court of appeals' opinion conflict with Raddatz and principles of due-process?
23-204 WY Plaza LC v. Safeway Stores 46 Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied affirmance affirmance-standard alternative-bases alternative-grounds appellate-procedure brief-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-waiver waiver Whether an appellee is obligated to raise all alternative bases for affirmance in its answer brief, or risk waiver of those alternative bases
23-201 Lawrence T. Newman, et ux. v. Heritage Village West Condominium Association, Inc. Florida 2023-09-01 Denied appellate-attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-standing standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the trial court's judgment notwithstanding its lack of subject matter jurisdiction violated the Newmans' Constitutional rights to due process
23-187 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure cloud-based-evidence cloud-computing constitutional-jurisdiction discovery evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence hipaa-privacy-rule judicial-procedure medical-records rule-32 Are the cloud-based #NewOrganon and the dashboard tools attached as exhibits admissible as models per Rule 32 of this Court?
23-162 Christian Winchel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
23-5391 Walter Raul Maguina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand
23-5401 Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing Why did the court deny Mr. Christmas at least one chance to amend, if it is possible to fix what court thank is wrong with Mr. Christmas's complaint
23-114 Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit Did the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly…
23-5279 Robert Annabel, II v. Joseph Novak, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure lawsuit-dismissal prisoner-rights retaliation standing Should truthful prisoner complaints be protected conduct?
23-5268 Marc Amouri Bakambia v. Paul Schnell, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation summary-judgment Whether the provision of the 28 U.S.C. 636 requires the district court judge to prevent the assigned magistrate judge from issuing a report and recomm…
23-76 Palani Karupaiyan v. Infosys BPM, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sua-sponte-dismissing-the-complaint-before-requiring-the-defendants-to-answer
23-5176 Damarco Antonio Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-rights right-of-appeal standing Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal?
23-5135 Leonardo Burgos-Valencia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure ninth-circuit right-to-be-heard standing substantial-rights summary-affirmance Whether the lower court's summary affirmance violated petitioner's right to be heard
23-5092 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-13 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process false-arrest favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure standing Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's false-arrest claim with prejudice, rather than without prejudice, in light of the favor…
23-5064 Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied IFP child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the admission of a child's out-of-court statements violates the Confrontation Clause
23-13 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Travis Abbott, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (7) bellwether-trials civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process judicial-procedure multidistrict-litigation representative-sample representativeness Whether nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel can be applied to make the results of a handful of unrepresentative bellwether trials binding on the d…
23-5029 In Re Robert L. Hedrick 2023-07-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing Whether the District Court and Appellate Court violated Appellant's 1st, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendment rights
22-7867 Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards Whether Poli biouee's Doe Peseoes Ricits Waser uiolated, When Ig tounge was not Present al TaCameva Wearing which Was conducted Lo assess the validity…
22-7816 Onyinye Jideani v. Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. District of Columbia 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process discriminatory-practice due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing want-of-prosecution Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals violate existing laws and breach its duty to protect the substantive rights of a pro se litigant
22-7812 Miguel A. Cisneros v. Trent Allen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure jury-instructions legal-standing Whether the state court's admission of erroneous evidence violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights
22-7761 Aaron Keith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection
22-7730 Israel C. Salazar v. Ricardo Salazar, as Trustee California 2023-06-07 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights clerical-error clerical-errors court-filing due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure notice-of-appeal standing trust-document writ-of-certiorari Will the Supreme Court of United States address the concerns of many United States citizens of the published and/or unpublished cases which involve er…
22-7596 Ripdaman Narula v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights crime-reporting criminal-procedure default-judgment due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review law-enforcement pro-se standing victim-rights pro-se-rights,default-judgment,crime-reporting,police-obligations,crime-victim-rights,judicial-power
22-7556 R. J. Kulick v. Patrick Soon-Shiong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied IFP 9th-circuit civil-procedure constitution constitutional-rights discretionary-exception due-process greater-good judicial-procedure judicial-process rule-of-law Whether the 9th Circuit denied due process in dismissing the petitioner's appeal
22-7535 Delroy Booth v. Lieutenant R. Allen, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights damages discretionary-review district-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights procedural-standards remedy-exhaustion retaliation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of the petitioner's complaint alleging retaliation, de…
22-1058 John L. Roseman, Sr. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-pleadings standing sua-sponte Whether motion-initiated 'sua sponte' dismissal was proper
22-7446 R. J. Kulick v. Ruth Stubba, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract-validity due-process judicial-procedure national-security pro-se-litigation standing Question not identified
22-7414 John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Erred When It Denied Certiorari to the District Court Proceedings
22-1040 William Carlson, et al. v. Thomas Cronin, et al. Illinois 2023-04-26 Denied due-process full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure legal-malpractice sham-proceeding statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose Whether Carlson's constitutional right to due process and constitutional right to receive full faith and credit of a final judgment was violated
22-7384 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2023-04-26 Denied IFP abstention circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in refusing to address the issue of abstention
22-7355 Demarr M. Meyers v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-25 Denied IFP amendment-violation appeals civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-procedure Was the Vu bing lay He Cline O+ PAppeels Hel cleported frm the accepled And Usvel COUvise of jucltetel procecelt ngs Violale the peh Honers fRtth and …
22-1029 Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Tenth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing frivolous-arguments judicial-misconduct judicial-privilege judicial-procedure notice-and-opportunity-to-respond Whether a federal appeals court has the power to disbar an attorney
22-1030 Gary Lewis v. United Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism insurance-law insurance-regulation judicial-procedure jury-trial rule-of-law Whether the constitutional right to a jury trial can be usurped by the trial court and appellate court interfering with the jury's fact finding role
22-7314 R. J. Kulick v. Brian T. Moynihan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act banking civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-review judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se-status standing Whether the 9th Circuit's denial of a motion for en banc review without explanation violated the petitioner's due process rights
22-7306 Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st-amendment-rights and 7th-amendmen…
22-7295 Saleem D. Williams v. Annettia Toby, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit ex-post-facto full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-denial standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit lacked proper jurisdiction to rule on a case and allow that ruling to stand
22-990 Bright Harry, et al. v. KCG Americas LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure free-speech judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit has statutory authority to deny oral argument to indigent and unrepresented litigants by applying incorrect standards, in co…
22-7219 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2023-04-06 Dismissed IFP certiorari-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination government-misconduct judicial-procedure standing whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-7224 Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7207 Ignacio Martinez-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7211 Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's constitutional due process rights, as protected by the Fifth Amendment, by (1) denyin…
22-7057 Raymond Pniewski, Jr. v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights court-advisement due-process guilty-plea involuntary-plea judicial-procedure people-v-jaworski Do the rulings of Boykin v. Alabama and People v. Jaworski violate the petitioner's constitutional and due process rights by requiring the court to ad…
22-7074 Christopher White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th…
22-7056 Alexander Cameron v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-03-21 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-evidence free-speech judicial-procedure standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his appeal based on the state court's erroneous application of the 'n…
22-7028 John L. Dickerson, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jane Matlock, Deceased v. Emmanuel Noel Cruz Tancinco, et al. Arkansas 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-administration judicial-procedure medical-malpractice procedural-rights standing substantive-rights wrongful-death Whether the petitioner's substantive and procedural due process rights were violated when the Circuit Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed th…
22-882 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2023-03-15 Denied case-stay civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-petition judicial-procedure legal-redress petition-government redress-grievances standing Unconstitutional gag on claims and defenses
22-6935 William Ingram v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated petitioners' right to choice of counsel and the appellate court's failure to review the trial court's ruling
22-6941 Terry Kerr v. Aldridge/Pite, LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure loan-modification mortgage-modification mortgage-services pro-se-litigation service-of-process standing summary-judgment whether-defendant-was-properly-served
22-6861 Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas Texas 2023-02-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error Did the trial court err by admitting hearsay testimony over the objection of Mr. Solano?
22-801 Ameen Salaam v. Illinois, ex. rel. Kimberly Foxx Illinois 2023-02-23 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture civil-judicial-forfeiture due-process in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement passage-of-time void-judgment Whether a court can enter a final judgment without the notice required by the due process clause
22-6840 David Omar Caraballo v. Florida Florida 2023-02-22 Denied IFP appellate-review case-review civil-procedure court-decision due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure legal-interpretation legal-review petitioner-claims standard-of-review standing Whether the district court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's points of argument as presented on direct appeal
22-780 Scott Meide, et al. v. Noah Centineo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review brief-requirements civil-rights court-obligations due-process judicial-discretion judicial-independence judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law separation-of-powers Do we have a government of laws and not of men?
22-6799 Emeka Dominic Okongwu v. County of Erie, New York Second Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied IFP amendment appellate-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment district-court due-process judicial-procedure reconsideration second-circuit standing summary-judgment Did the court of appeals err in affirming the district court's refusal to allow amendment of the complaint?
22-6776 J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-14 Denied IFP amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other substant…
22-763 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence cross-examination due-process evidence fraud-on-the-court judicial-procedure rule-of-law sanctions Whether the Sixth Circuit panel's decision to affirm the District Court decision that was based on the application of the wrong legal test constituted…
22-6768 Stanley Foster Baker v. Texas Texas 2023-02-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-procedure miranda-warnings reasonable-person-standard state-court supreme-court-precedent Was it objectively reasonable for the State courts to conclude that no reasonable factfinder could believe that Baker was in custody during interrogat…
22-6727 Kenneth Baldwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure resentencing sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation Legality of multiple judgments and double jeopardy
22-6691 Hugues-Denver Akassy v. Michael Kirkpatrick, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-charges criminal-indictment due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-procedure rape-case standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can a court with lack of subject matter jurisdiction permit an indigent defendant to stand trial on trumped-up criminal charges not made in indictment…
22-717 Adrian Perkins, Mayor of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana v. Celcog, LLC, dba Strawn's Eat Shop Too, et al. Louisiana 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute judicial-procedure louisiana-constitution louisiana-revised-statutes state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts erroneously granted attorney's fees
22-6650 Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska Nebraska 2023-01-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court whether-the-fourteenth-amendment-prohibits-a-state-appellate-court-from-adjudicating-an-application-or-motion-in-complete-absence-of-all-jurisdiction
22-6638 James Ralph Dawson, Jr. v. Jeff Archambeau, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure remedies standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether Kelsi failed to show actual harm to entitle him to entire Remedies pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c), the limiting the AEDPA's 1-year statute …
22-692 April Premo Williams v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied ada ada-accommodations civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection equity judicial-procedure rehabilitation-act What are the terms to be used for the mentally disabled and the emotionally disabled?
22-6598 Yvonne Jiang v. Helen Xu California 2023-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process evidence-tampering false-declaration fraud judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure legal-standing standing Whether a judgment should stand when the judge could not face the person against whom the judgment is rendered, knowing the judgment is based on false…
22-6550 Alla Zorikova v. Julie Pyle, et al. Nevada 2023-01-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure recusal standing whether-zorikova-was-denied-due-process-and-fair-trial
22-6446 James Thomas Burke v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure justice-stevens standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent time-barred Whether Hardin v. Straub is relevant to the Supreme Court's holdings
22-596 Lamon Sandel Dewayne Donnell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process foreign-state judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction title-28 Is this Court, and all public offices, a FOREIGN STATE as defined under FRCP Rule 4(j) and under Title 28— JUDICIARY | AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE?
22-6308 Alberto Mendoza-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6213 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-assignment civil-procedure due-process judicial-procedure procedural-error right-to-counsel rights-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err by denying Mark Stinson due process and violating his right to counsel?
22-6166 Raymond Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power Whether the Ninth Circuit has sanctioned serial departures by the district court from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-6157 Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review Questions Presented
22-424 The Cordish Companies, Inc. v. Affiliated FM Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived certified-question civil-procedure conflict-of-laws erie-doctrine federalism insurance insurance-coverage judicial-procedure maryland state-law-interpretation west-virginia Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the constitutional principles set forth in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), which protect each s…
22-5952 Randell Joseph Redmond v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standard-of-review standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) does not preempt state laws prohibiting…
22-5927 Jonathan Lee Oliver v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure jury-trial non-jury-proceeding preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment supervised-release Did the district court's unindicted, non-jury, preponderance of the evidence fact-finding that Mr. Oliver committed a new federal offense to conclude …
22-391 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute appellate-procedure appellate-review case-transfer civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ghostwriting judicial-procedure standing Does California anti-SLAPP statute protect illegal activity?
22-345 Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Connecticut 2022-10-13 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-action judicial-procedure procedural-fairness standing trial Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's Order Denying Petitioner's Petition for Certification to Appeal to that Court upholding the Connecticut Appell…
22-5817 Brandon Craig Wood v. Eric Sellers, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abatement administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-litigation civil-procedure collateral-estoppel dismissal-without-prejudice exhaustion full-and-fair-opportunity judicial-procedure Does collateral estoppel bar a plaintiff from challenging the defendants' failure to exhaust administrative remedies defense?
22-5773 Roland Ma v. Gallery Belltown Condo Association Washington 2022-10-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-order due-process judicial-procedure notice-and-opportunity-to-object notice-requirement standing sua-sponte vexatious-litigant Whether the state courts erred in entering a sua sponte vexatious litigant order without notice and an opportunity to object
22-287 Gail Lewis Hicks, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. Indiana 2022-09-27 Denied Response Waived court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fifth-and-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-procedure summary-judgment Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the Indiana Court of Appeals granting Respondent a summary judgme…
22-5698 Robert L. Davis v. Julian Holt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 appeal-process civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts forged-document hearing-rights immigration-law judicial-procedure non-citizen-rights standing Does federal Rules of Civil Procedure allow a petitioner to file a non 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil suit in federal court?
22-5657 Dawud Wilson v. Leon Hill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state p appellate-analysis constitutional-issue constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure merits-review plain-error plain-error-analysis state-appeals-court state-procedural-bar Whether the state appeals court's plain-error analysis amounted to a review of the merits, and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state procedural …
22-5636 Kathi Sorrentino v. U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. Connecticut 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process erroneous-order federal-statutory-laws judicial-procedure state-laws void-order If a superior court is mandated to follow a void or erroneous order from an appellate court, then what does a litigant do to protect their Constitutio…
22-5613 Kennrith L. Foster v. Illinois Illinois 2022-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-interpretation notice plea-bargaining prisoner-rights state-court waiver Did the trial court violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to a jury trial when it accepted a plea without providing adequate notice of the na…
22-253 Christine Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, et al. California 2022-09-19 Denied civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing government-action guardianship judicial-procedure property-rights settlement settlement-binding Whether government can deprive real properties from parties without due process
22-5597 Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-234 Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule
22-222 Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 Whether Franks authorizes federal courts to disregard a finding of probable cause made by a properly constituted state grand jury
22-5555 Denni Valdez v. Eckert Stewart, Warden Second Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process en-banc-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rehearing-en-banc Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process
22-5490 Nicholas Wukoson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clisby-v-jones davis-v-us federal-civil-procedure judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review remand Whether the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit departed from its accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-184 Christopher G. Parker v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response Waived case-supplementation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-defense right-to-counsel right-to-file-transcript right-to-supplement-record Whether the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Petitioner's rights
22-5430 Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts Whether the lower courts abused their discretion and erred in light of Supreme Court precedent
22-5420 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-circuit civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure writ-of-error Whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals made an error of Law when is failed to protect the 14th Amendment
22-158 Jeremiah D. Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response Waived courtroom-conduct due-process fair-trial government-witness judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jury-consideration legal-standard witness-behavior Is a Government witness' inappropriate behavior in the courtroom gallery an improper consideration for a juror?
22-5252 Carlos Fleitas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure non-expert-testimony sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari Should a higher standard, apart from that permitted by Fed. R. Evid. 1101(d)(3), apply when a defendant's sentence is enhanced based on non-expert tes…
22-5206 Shain Duka v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction
22-5208 In Re Paul C. Bolin 2022-07-27 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment administrative-rules civil-rights constitutional-authority court-filing due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-submissions ninth-circuit standing takings Does the SCOTUS petition raise a constitutional right to carry concealed firearms?
22-5187 Jesus Maya-Zapata v. California California 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky credibility-determination judicial-procedure jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-excusal-of-a-juror reasonableness-of-stated-justifications sixth-amendment Whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth-Amendment-claims-arising-under-Batson-v-Kentucky or whether appellate cou…
22-71 Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Minnesota 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived appeal-prematurity civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-findings due-process individual-rights judicial-procedure judicial-procedures legal-review procedural-error standing Whether a lower court erred in finding an appeal premature, but then attempting to make findings relative to the premature appeal
22-72 Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Minnesota 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-procedure law-of-case law-of-the-case lower-court-jurisdiction rule-60.02 Whether a lower court is obligated to abide by the law of the case even if it claims the appellate court erred
22-5060 Fred Auston Wortman, III v. Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process inferences judicial-procedure plea-agreement pleadings standard-of-review summary-dismissal summary-judgment Whether the District Court erred by summarily dismissing Petitioner's Complaint by failing to accept as true all of Petitioner's factual allegations a…
22-5054 Tyrik Upchurch v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go…
22-5056 Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing Whether the respondent properly sought publicity when dismissed without a full record, although requested, and whether the respondent's right to discl…
22-5044 Richard Anthony Siler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance?
22-5014 Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing Whether the District Court for the District of South Carolina erred in dismissing the case on the ground that the petitioners lacked standing to chall…
21-8270 Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-06-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner's Petition f…
21-8239 Lawrence L. Crawford, aka Johah Gabriel, aka Jahjah T. Tishbite v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure sanctions separation-of-powers spoliation standing Does the filing submitted by the petitioner(s) serve as a functional equivalent to an informal brief?
21-8225 Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1586 Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower courts violated the standards set in Tolan v. Cotton, Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, and Eastman Kodak v. Image Technical Services when …
21-8146 Gregory Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court abused its discretion by failing to follow the law and determine a defendant's eligibility for First Step Act relief, in viola…
21-8132 James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r…
21-8110 In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a right …
21-8055 In Re Shane Jeansonne 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing Writ of Mandamus
21-8052 Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8010 Louis Gonzalez v. Elaine E. Bucklo, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure notice plra standing Whether the Seventh Circuit adopted an opinion conflicting with its earlier decision and other courts
21-1472 Claudia J. Rohr v. Hawaii Crime Victims Compensation Commission Ninth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied ada-amendments-act administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act board-action disability-discrimination false-evidence judicial-procedure judicial-process statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the statute of limitations accrued upon service of Commission Decision and Orders or upon first communication of the concurring vote of all th…
21-7886 Leona Stack, et vir v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate due-process judicial-procedure mandate pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process rehearing standing summary-judgment Did the construal by the Seventh Circuit amount to a mis-construal in presuming the petition for en banc rehearing was a motion to recall the mandate?
21-7865 Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level
21-7850 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-12 Dismissed IFP ada-disability appeal appellate-jurisdiction clerk-error constitutional-rights counsel-substitution habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-substitute-counsel pro-se pro-se-motions Question not identified
21-7837 Cedric D. Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-procedure motion-for-rehearing standing Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Whether or not the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in its constitutional analysis regarding the petitioner's bail motion
21-7800 Mark P. Donaldson and Peggy Hampel v. Nick Lyon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-petition judicial-procedure liberal-pleading-standard liberal-pleading-standards pro-se-pleading procedural-rules sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-rules standing Was the Sixth Circuit panel's actions in changing and discarding Peggy Hampel's en banc petition appropriate?
21-7726 Michael Charles Sartin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari CJA-plan criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure misinformation post-conviction-relief wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Whether misinformation about the timeframe for seeking certiorari in violation of a lower court's CJA plan entitles a defendant to a GVR consistent wi…
21-7655 Bruce Committe v. Vickie Gentry Fifth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP academic-freedom civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure press-freedom standing What are the contours and principles of the First Amendment's free speech and freedom of the press protections (a/k/a Academic Freedom) in the academi…
21-7634 In Re Lin Ouyang 2022-04-15 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-of-appeals exceptional-circumstances finality-of-judgment judicial-procedure mandamus motion-reconsideration reconsideration writ-of-mandamus Whether the court of appeals has reached a genuinely final judgment?
21-7621 Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7594 Orin Kristich v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-counsel attorney-misconduct court-discretion de-novo-review due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure plea-bargaining plea-waiver sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether appeal counsel can dismiss appeal without client consent
21-7595 O. C. v. V. C. Ohio 2022-04-12 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment custody custody-order due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-procedure parental-rights Did the appellate court deny O.C. due process-and-equal-protection
21-1345 Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied 28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation Does a lawyer have the statutory right to appeal a final order suspending the lawyer from the practice of law?
21-7528 Philip A. Bralich v. Fox News Network, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure national-interest novel-issue pro-se-litigation standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York erred in dismissing the civil case sua sponte
21-1222 Joel David Joseph v. American General Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied california-constitution diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine judicial-procedure ninth-circuit oral-argument res-judicata ripeness Does the Erie doctrine require oral argument in a diversity case under the California Constitution?
21-7302 Christian Peterson v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jury-selection race-discrimination racial-discrimination Did the Kansas courts err in failing to recognize race discrimination under Batson
21-7315 Michael Lynn Cash v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as successive without considering the petitioner's claims on t…
21-7264 Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation Does the United States Constitution guarantee a United States citizen due process and equal protection under the law?
21-7199 Bryan Matthew Brewer v. Oklahoma Bar Association Oklahoma 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-rules bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emolument-violation free-speech judicial-procedure oaths-and-emoluments remedies republican-form-of-government state-government Where does the law originate from?
21-7187 Paul E. Jozwiak v. Raytheon Missile Systems, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alternative-service civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-restrictions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure jurisdictional-authority magistrate-judge service-of-process What-methods-for-service-of-process-must-a-court-accept-when-mail-signature-services-and-personal-process-services-were-suspended
21-7168 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-22 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP care-and-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jury-trial parental-rights standing Whether right to parent of biological parents' can be terminated by a single judge and statutorily transferred to foster parents when a parent raises …
21-7155 Binbing Xie v. Yan Fang Chen New York 2022-02-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion amendment-xiv civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused its discretion by violating the Due Process and Equal Protection of United States Constitution, Amendment XIV to procee…
21-7116 Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen 'standard' supervised-release conditions…
21-1129 Wen-Ting Zheng-Smith v. Nassau Health Care Corporation, dba NUHealth System, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response Waived academic-reviews attorney attorney-conduct civil-procedure court-discretion evidence evidence-submission government-findings judicial-procedure legal-evidence witness-statements witness-testimony Can evidence presented by defendant's attorney on behalf of plaintiff be updated to include missing information?
21-7067 Kimmie Dwayne Baker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-surveillance evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct government-response judicial-procedure new-trial new-trial-motion surveillance Whether the government was obligated to respond and contest the merits of the July 3, 2022 motion, rather than moving to dismiss on the basis of untim…
21-7000 Dominic Dean Adams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction?
21-6981 In Re Benny David Gibson 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-review court-jurisdiction default-judgment dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-rights procedural-dismissal settlement standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case without prejudice
21-6882 Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1012 Brad Heidelberg, dba Rio Seco Resources, et al. v. D.O.H. Oil Company Texas 2022-01-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-notice due-process foreclosure judgment judicial-procedure limitations-statute mullane-standard notice property-rights state-limitations Whether a state-limitations statute may preclude challenge to a judgment obtained by notice that is constitutionally insufficient to meet the requirem…
21-6853 Charles N. Belssner v. Linda Gittings Nevada 2022-01-14 Denied IFP ada-accommodations ada-section-504 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-tempore section-504 standing transcript Should the pro tempore have scheduled a hearing with only 3 day notice after being cancelled 3 times?
21-6855 Devin Andrich v. Jerome Francis Meyers, et al. Arizona 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure rebuttal-evidence time-limits trial-procedure trial-time-limits witness-examination Whether the court of appeals erred in deciding that a 2-hour trial 'chess clock' did not violate Petitioner's due process rights
21-6862 In Re Daniel Jones 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-relief federal-courts filing-requirements judicial-procedure mandamus prisoner-rights standing is-petitioner-entitled-to-immediate-relief
21-6875 Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court Whether the governments need to secure court appearance outweigh the security of person from severe harms, mental and physical, due process and punish…
21-6809 Edward Shane West-El v. Midland Funding LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-11 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights delegation-of-authority due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-be-heard standing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to be heard in the lower tribunal federal courts
21-977 Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. Washington 2022-01-07 Denied case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion Whether the state courts failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial, which conflicts with three decisions of the Supreme Court r…
21-962 In Re Whole Woman's Health, et al. 2022-01-04 Denied abortion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus remand standing texas writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay
21-6491 Lucas Montagne v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed?
21-807 In Re Amelia Eng 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction disqualified-judge due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure retroactive-disqualification standing writ-of-mandate Whether the California Supreme Court should be directed to order appellate review of Petitioner's appeal before a court of appeal having jurisdiction
21-6420 Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
21-6384 Kimani I. Sterling v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura…
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal…
21-6330 S. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure child-welfare civil-rights custody-requirements department-of-children-services due-process family-law judicial-procedure judicial-review Whether the requirements for placing children in foster care were properly followed in this case, including whether background checks were conducted o…
21-6317 Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied IFP amendment-interpretation candidate-rights constitutional-access election election-rights equal-protection judicial-procedure jurisdiction mask-mandate writ-of-mandamus Question not identified
21-6300 Ricky Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report?
21-6260 Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a 'particularly defer[entional]' standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv…
21-692 Sergeant Haystings, et al. v. Albert B. Korb Third Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights exhaustion-requirement federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing supplemental-pleading Whether a prisoner can cure a violation of the Prison Litigation Reform Act's mandatory pre-suit exhaustion requirement by filing a supplemental plead…
21-673 Robert Allen Austin v. James McCann, Judge, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation What statute grants federal and state judges the use of defamation 18 U.S.C. § 4101(1) to deprive a U.S. citizen of a protected right under the 14th A…
21-6167 Harry Sharod James v. Roy Cooper, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure law-library legal-access prisoner-rights Whether the petitioner was deprived of his fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts by not having access to a meaningful, effective, a…
21-638 David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims Whether it violates due-process for a district-court to adopt verbatim a final-opinion on discretionary-matters ghostwritten by a prevailing-party's l…
21-6103 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2021-10-27 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship collaborative-discovery constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rights right-to-counsel victim-rights Does an accused have a right to effective assistance of counsel when the accused does not collaborate with counsel?
21-6079 Austin Brand v. Oregon Oregon 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP art-canon civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-order oregon-law pro-se standing supreme-court Is the maxim advised to the Oregon Supreme Courts mandamus order pre-discretionary to disposition concerning a judicial body's bias and awe inspiring …
21-6092 Earvin R. Davis v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment charging-instruments civil-action constitutional-rights conviction-and-sentence due-process judicial-procedure minor minor-imprisonment Did the trial court violate petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process?
21-6043 Vedrick Lamonte Symonette v. Florida Florida 2021-10-25 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-violations criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-procedure jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice vague-indistinct-indefinite Whether the information provided to the defendant was so vague, indistinct, and indefinite that it resulted in a due process violation, a Brady v. Mar…
21-586 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment Is the Seventh Circuit decision contrary to Supreme Court precedent on later claims and preclusion of later events?
21-6017 Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas Questions presented
21-523 Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the dis…
21-5915 Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued
21-461 Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process final-orders judicial-procedure legal-finality rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-orders texas-statutes unsigned-orders Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two incomplete, illegal proposed State Court Rulings
21-5765 Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial for attempted murder after acquittal for murder in self-defense
21-5698 Jasper Crook v. Ricardo Aguilar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice case-closure civil-rights court-fees due-process free-speech judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-rights ninth-circuit Does the petitioner have a right to 'free justice and open courts' without paying a fee to have their case heard in the Ninth Circuit?
21-5678 Shawn Kelly Thomason v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law court-practice due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure pronoun-usage transgender-rights Does the Eighth Circuit's failure to use a transgender litigant's preferred pronouns violate the Equal Protection Clause?
21-5692 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure legal-review loretto-v-teleprompter takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and the protections of the Takings Clause, as established in Loretto v. T…
21-389 Sergio Momox-Caselis, et al. v. Tara Donohue, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-procedure liberty-lobby ninth-circuit standard-of-review standards summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted and usual course of the standards established by this Court in Anderson v. Liber…
21-5628 Danny W. Alcoser v. Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth District Texas 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law judicial-procedure procedural-rights standing supreme-court-review texas-family-code texas-supreme-court Did the Texas Supreme Court deprive the petitioner from obtaining the Equal Protection of a procedural right under the Due Process of law
21-5512 In Re Shannon Riley 2021-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law default-judgment due-process foreign-judgment judicial-procedure jurisdiction mandate nunc-pro-tunc standing Did the filing of a nunc pro tunc journal entry correcting default judgment filed as a final order of judgment impeach due process?
21-238 Keith Foster v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent judicial-procedure legal-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct how-can-panels-of-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals-affirm-decisions-as-matters-of-law-that-are-in-direct-conflict-with-previously-established-binding-pr…
21-211 Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel…
21-5331 Zachary R. E. Rusk v. Fidelity Brokerage Services Tenth Circuit 2021-08-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-interference judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-11-motion rule-60-motion standing timeliness Did the 10th circuit apply the law incorrectly?
21-5392 Jose Raymundo Rodriguez-Yanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-178 Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law citizen-lawsuit civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-enforcement environmental-law judicial-procedure npdes-permits standing storm-water-runoff Are public entities violating the Clean Water Act, their NPDES permits, and/or nuisance laws?
21-168 Dennis De Jesus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response Waived alternative-holding appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure dicta judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-error merits merits-denial Whether a cursory statement that a court would deny relief on the merits if it had jurisdiction qualifies as an alternative holding or is merely dicta
21-5234 Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5241 Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5209 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2021-07-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure standing Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari to address the state court of last resort's unsupported, arbitrary, and/or capricious order
21-43 Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan Michigan 2021-07-13 Denied appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner's conviction where the opinion is contradicte…
21-5083 Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas Kansas 2021-07-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Bieberlach's request for independent DNA testing?
20-8476 Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issue where the district court failed to conduct de novo review of the portions of the Report and Recomm…
20-1820 Stephane J. Wantou Siantou v. CVS RX Services, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment amendment-rights bench-conference dismissal due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal postponement Can a District Court judge invite the parties counsel to a bench conference for the specific goal of preventing the plaintiff from listening to the di…
20-1774 Shaun Allahyari v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7403 contract-defenses federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure standing standing-doctrine tax-debtor tax-liens third-party-creditor third-party-lienholder united-states-v-rodgers Whether the United States has standing to enforce a tax debtor's contract defenses against a third party senior lienholder
20-8281 Dominic Franza v. James Stinson, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure discretion judicial-procedure legal-precedent mandate-recall recall-of-mandate second-circuit Was it an abuse of discretion for the Second Circuit to deny Petitioner's Recall of the Mandate motion
20-1717 Harris County Hospital District v. Public Utility Commission of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights class-action collateral-review cy-pres due-process judicial-procedure settlement-class standing Whether the scope of collateral review of class action judgments comports with the Due Process Clause
20-8264 Jeremy Hough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether, through 'assumed error harmlessness review,' appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr…
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) Whether a habeas petitioner makes a valid Rule 60(b) motion by arguing that, due to an incorrect procedural-default ruling, the district court (1) onl…
20-8177 Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process federal-rules informa-pauperis judicial-procedure pro-se-plaintiff rehabilitation-act retaliation standing Can the federal courts ignore the Federal Rules?
20-1660 In Re Garvester Bracken 2021-05-28 Denied article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction Whether the trial court had jurisdiction to proceed and enter judgment without the defendant and defense counsel being personally present during any s…
20-8144 Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing There has been no redress of my grievance
20-1568 Teresa Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review Whether the court's decision to order the defendant to a death sentence was necessary to prevent review of their conduct or actions, and whether a tra…
20-7997 John Sloan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-care retaliation Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated when he was denied work opportunities, retaliated against for seeking medical care, and denied due…
20-7951 Eduardo Flores v. Peter M. Hoagland, et al. California 2021-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act court-accommodation disability due-process equal-access judicial-procedure self-represented self-represented-litigant Whether the Superior Court of the State of California, San Diego County and the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District violated the 14t…
20-7939 Cedric Jones, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerk-signature collateral-review court-order due-process judicial-procedure mandamus official-misconduct procedural-validity recusal standing Whether an appellate court clerk can sign a valid order without a judge's signature
20-1488 Sherwin A. Brook v. J. Lawrence McCormley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-magistrates-act judicial-procedure motion-consideration standing state-law-certification Does 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) allow a district judge to refuse to consider a motion to certify an issue of state law that was presented to the magistr…
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…
20-7601 Lynn Z. Smith v. New Jersey Bureau of Securities Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim claim-objection creditor creditor-documents debtor debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine When a Bankruptcy Debtor files a formal objection to the amount of a Creditor's claim and requests that the Creditor provide the Additional Documents …
20-1353 Allen Glenn Thomas v. Tekle Girma Abebe, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process forgery fraud fraud-claims judicial-procedure property-deed Whether the district/appeals courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims, denying him a discovery hearing, and denying him an opportunity to ame…
20-7567 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for a warrantless search of a person's home based on exigent circumstances when the person is not pres…
20-1320 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-judge administrative-jurisdiction disqualification due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure jurisdiction ohio-revised-code opportunity-to-be-heard state-court-review unconstitutional Can a case proceed if the petitioner argues that the administrative judge lacked jurisdiction?
20-7471 Christian Joseph Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability without any analysis of whether the District…
20-7478 Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendme…
20-1266 In Re Ivan Rene Moore, et al. 2021-03-11 Denied california-constitution constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure property-rights redress superior-court supreme-court Shall a writ lie for violation of due process
20-7345 Willie Ray Lewis v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abortion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-regulations standing statutory-interpretation Whether Louisiana's law requiring a physician performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local hospital is unconstitutional
20-1221 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Erin Rubin Oklahoma 2021-03-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process exhibit-evidence gender judicial-procedure legitimate-purpose race race-profiling standing Is Exhibit G. Oklahoma Conversations a complete, consistent and coherent model of the facts of this case? Were those facts already cognizable to this …
20-7317 Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing Whether the United States District Court decision to deny Petitioner's §2254 Habeas Corpus Petition as untimely is constitutional
20-7298 Andrew Watson Bunn v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review capital-case civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition-for-review right-to-appeal standing Whether a right to appeal is preserved when the questions presented remain unanswered
20-7207 Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied IFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing Did the district court err in failing to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act and the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act?
20-7141 Curtis Jerome Brown, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-review fraud habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated under the 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, and 6th Amendment
20-7089 Kemen Lavatos Taylor, II v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-scrutiny courtroom-closure courtroom-closures eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals judicial-procedure minnesota-supreme-court public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee contains a triviality exception
20-7014 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering Whether the district court and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's due process, confrontation, examination, privileges, and protections i…
20-7005 Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal Whether the Court of Appeals erred as a matter of law in allowing the district court to summarily dismiss the petitioner's motion to reopen the case p…
20-6930 Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-976 David H. Penny v. Lincoln's Challenge Academy Seventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-civil-rules judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment What is the proper treatment of Pro Se litigants nationwide who make a technical error or other mistake for lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of…
20-6868 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2021-01-13 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-custody due-process fraud-upon-court free-speech judicial-procedure legal-remedy standing state-accountability Whether the State of Georgia's use of constructive custody imposes unusual hardship and deprives the litigant of protections guaranteed by the First, …
20-6830 Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fee-waiver indigent-litigant judicial-procedure poverty Whether denying the petitioner a panel of three judges because he was too poor to pay the fees was in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment …
20-922 Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-09 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal whether the director may designate a new execution date while a stay is in place
20-6779 Leon Bright v. Angel Didios Florida 2021-01-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice Whether Defendants discriminated against Petitioner and deprived him of Equal Protection and Due Process
20-6768 Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied clearly established law in evalu…
20-6646 Marcia Croce v. Lorin A. Croce Pennsylvania 2020-12-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure political-bias Whether the Pennsylvania Judicial System erred in depriving the low-income Petitioner of equal-process-and-protection
20-817 Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability?
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-6579 Aimee O'Neil v. Weld County, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-procedure legal-representation liberty-interest procedural-protection standing Did Attorney Andrew Poland provide adequate representation?
20-6558 Sonya Bamberg v. Georgia Georgia 2020-12-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-proceedings right-to-appeal right-to-counsel Whether a judge who did not preside over the trial may certify a supplemental record of testimony from witnesses eight years after a conviction when t…
20-6545 Michael Meadows v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence?
20-6334 Chrishma Hunter Singhderewa v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2020-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation motion-to-appear representation standing Is the State of California denying a citizen of the United States of America their constitutional right to representation by refusing to acknowledge a…
20-668 Nina Allison v. Robert Dar-Teh Liou, et al. California 2020-11-16 Denied accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-disability civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-accommodation legal-profession mental-health mental-illness post-traumatic-stress-disorder Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires courts to provide accommodations for undiagnosed mental disabilities of attorneys?
20-671 In Re Atul C. Shah 2020-11-16 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing Whether the violation of First Amendment for practice of my Religion occurred
20-6279 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, et al. Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-condition standing standing-doctrine Whether the lower court abused its discretion by dismissing the complaint?
20-601 Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-05 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-appeals-court intervention judicial-procedure june-medical standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state attorney general vested with the power to defend state law should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidat…
20-611 Robert J. Doyle v. Jacqueline M. Vigilante Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process judicial-procedure procedural-due-process right-to-sue Whether the right to sue, right of access to courts, and procedural due process require a court of appeals to address and resolve every issue raised o…
20-6174 Marjory Childs v. Western Tidewater Community Services Board Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied IFP ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure mandate-rule standing title-vii Whether the Court of Appeals judgement shall take effect upon issuance of mandate in accordance with FED. R. App. P. 41
20-6127 Jermaine Antwan Tart v. Jamese Vigus, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression housing judicial-procedure pleadings summary-judgment video-evidence How can the case be closed without any decision on one of the due process claims?
20-513 Jan Rouven Fuechtener v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response Waived appeal-as-of-right appeals civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure merits-panel motions-panel Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when an appeal as of right is heard and disposed of by a motions panel, rather than …
20-509 Jonnaven Jo Monalim, et ux. v. HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union Hawaii 2020-10-16 Denied constitutional-law deficiency-judgments due-process english-common-law foreclosure foreclosure-deficiency judicial-procedure market-value property-rights retroactivity Does the centuries old English common law procedure for calculating foreclosure deficiency judgments violate the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and …
20-475 Stanley V. Campbell v. Eagle Force Holdings, LLC, et al. Delaware 2020-10-13 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure personal-jurisdiction sanctions Can a finding of civil contempt and the imposition of a sanction be sustained consistent with the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Cons…
20-467 Arthur Talbot, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion covid-19-pandemic foreclosure-fraud homeowner-rights judicial-procedure mortgage-electronic-registration-system mortgage-relief res-judicata standing Whether the Sixth Circuit has negated the relief it otherwise affords in Conlin to homeowners whose homes have been foreclosed through fraudulent mean…
20-471 Y. W. v. Patricia Aufiero, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied appeal appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-procedure microsoft-baker-precedent microsoft-corp-v-baker without-prejudice without-prejudice-dismissal Whether the mere using of the word 'dismissed' is enough to make an order final within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1291
20-456 Michael Elder v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-procedure official-misconduct party-presentation search-and-seizure supervisee-rights supervisee-search suspicionless-search Whether the Second Circuit violated the party presentation principle
20-5968 Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Florida denied petitioner access to the court pursuant Article 1, Section 21 of the Florida Constitution when it declined…
20-5899 Bodhisattva Skandha v. William Bates Massachusetts 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal due-process judicial-procedure pure-land-buddhism religious-rights standing trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether The Trial Court Abused Its Discretion By Dismissing The Case?
20-5900 Fane R. Sellers, et al. v. Wyoming, et al. Wyoming 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection good-behavior government-accountability judicial-procedure jurisdiction unbiased-judge When the inferior District Court failed and/or refused to initiate or commence the action by issuing the summons as required by Wyoming Rules of Civil…
20-5906 Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-5886 Lynn Z. Smith v. Andrea Dobin Third Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-trustee creditor-claim creditor-documents debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine When can a bankruptcy debtor obtain additional documents from a creditor to challenge the creditor's claim?
20-420 Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid…
20-5836 Rosie Diggles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process external-document judicial-procedure mandatory-supervision oral-pronouncement pronouncement sentencing special-conditions Is the Court required to orally pronounce special conditions and give reasons for those special condition, as a condition of mandatory supervision, at…
20-5804 Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because…
20-5823 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights contempt-trial double-jeopardy due-process government-action habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pretrial-proceedings Whether a pretrial petitioner may challenge his custody as in violation of the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties, and whether this pretrial saf…
20-5800 Robert L. Rose v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability discretionary-ruling federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure reasonable-jurists rule-70(a) Whether a certificate of appealability is required to appeal an order denying a motion for enforcement made pursuant to Rule 70(a) of the Federal Rule…
20-5777 Leroy Banks v. Anthony Terry, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's claims and case, including the Petitioner's request for decla…
20-5725 Rheashad Lamar Lott v. E. Oseguera, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standing state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation Was PeTL {tower's 42 U.S.C. 31493 COMPLATY ENTITLED To REVEFIT OF EQUITARE Tota
20-5687 John Oliver Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review petition-dismissal standing suspension-clause timeliness Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petition as untimely
20-5675 Robert Trevino v. E. Dotson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas intentional-oversight judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing supreme-court Did the 14th Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory p…
20-312 Texas Brine Company, LLC, et al. v. Rodd Naquin, Clerk, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit Louisiana 2020-09-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process geographical-bias judicial-discretion judicial-procedure panel-assignment random-selection state-law Whether due process requires judges to be assigned to panels randomly from the pool of all the judges available to hear a particular case
20-314 RPM International Inc., et al. v. Alan Stuart, Trustee for the Cecil G. Stuart and Donna M. Stuart Revocable Living Trust Agreement, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-10 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law judicial-procedure officer-status patent patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing us-constitution-article-ii Whether the court of appeals erred by vacating and remanding the case based on an Appointments Clause challenge
20-254 Kuang-Bao Ou-Young v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights competence-restoration criminal-action criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing Whether a three-judge court should have adjudged the FTCA case
20-5543 Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5541 Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. First Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard Whether the definition of a 'debt collector' under the FDCPA includes attorneys who select non-judicial foreclosure
20-5525 Larry R. Bailey v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion discovery-rights due-process federal-lands fee-authority fees judicial-procedure public-lands public-records standing Whether the District Court erred when it determined that the Secretary of the Interior can charge an amenity fee
20-5488 Franklin Rafael Lopez Toala v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-Amendment appellate-record due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment Gardner-v-Florida judicial-procedure presentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit may consider new materials not presented to the sentencing court
20-5468 Corey Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-24 Denied IFP competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence Whether defendant-appellant was denied his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of trial
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts Does a defense cause prejudice due to inadequate notice?
20-5359 Brandon Shane Eustice v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history diversionary-disposition due-process imprisonment judicial-procedure probation-revocation revocation sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines Whether a diversionary disposition that results in a later revocation and imprisonment should be counted as a sentence under § 4A1.1(b) rather than a …
20-5301 David L. Shanks, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fifth-amendment judicial-procedure sixth-amendment trial-commencement trial-in-absentia Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43 and a criminal defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights are violated
20-5292 Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
20-114 Michael Edward Bufkin v. Scottrade, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied administrative-law arbitration-dispute civil-procedure compelled-arbitration due-process finra foia-request judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-controversy Was it error to compel FINRA arbitration of this tax dispute?
20-113 Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Minnesota 2020-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights deemed-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review procedural-error standing void-judgment writ-of-prohibition Whether existing judicial procedures and standards are adequate to protect individual constitutional rights
20-5216 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)?
20-5200 Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2020-07-29 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether a state court of appeals erred in dismissing a prisoner's case
20-5201 Travaris Crawford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability cross-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jennings-v-stephens judicial-procedure Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas …
20-76 Ghassan Hage v. Fida Mhanna California 2020-07-27 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure contempt-of-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure Whether the lower court erred in its ruling despite a prior court order
20-5136 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2020-07-23 Denied IFP case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process executive-committee executive-power federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-order mandamus mandamus-petition standing whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner on June 17, 2020 is legal
20-5140 Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search Whether the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner'…
20-5049 Kevin L. Martin v. John Galipeau, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights disciplinary-hearing disclosure-of-evidence due-process facility-proceedings giglio-v-united-states judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether the district court of appeals properly applied the standards of Brady v. Maryland and Giglio v. United States in evaluating the petitioner's c…
19-8907 Jonathan Boyer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 civil-procedure federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-recall relitigation-bar statutory-interpretation successive-petition Whether and under what circumstances a motion to recall judgment attacking the erroneous application of the relitigation bar in 28 USCS 2254(d) should…
19-1443 S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States
19-1397 Michele Gray v. Department of Justice Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-rules forma-pauperis improper-service judicial-procedure lower-court-decision motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Can a party request extended time to file a petition for Writ of Certiorari within 60 days of the lower court decision
19-8768 Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-protections contract-law discovery-rights due-process government-legislation grounds-for-contracting judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant self-incrimination supreme-court Question not identified
19-8780 Ron Glick v. Mara Guiffrida Montana 2020-06-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-opinion due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-citation noncitable-opinions procedural-fairness supreme-court-discretion unequal-treatment Did the Montana Supreme Court err in using an internal operating procedure to invidiously discriminate against the petitioner?
19-8752 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss
19-8763 James Delglyn v. Paulino Barros, et al. Wisconsin 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof credit-report credit-reporting debt-verification hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure state-statutes wisconsin-law wisconsin-supreme-court Is it reasonable to demand verification of an alleged debt in the form of a written contract, evidence of a transaction or a sworn statement from a cl…
19-8616 Anthony Helton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss?
19-1331 Xiu Jian Sun v. Charles F. Sanders, et al. New York 2020-06-01 Denied Response Waived civil-magistrate civil-procedure civil-rights conscience-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-religion judicial-procedure legal-petition religious-law standing takings Jehovah-god-of-host-messenger-spiritual-adam-law
19-1320 Veronica M. Johnson v. Rock Solid Janitorial, Inc., et al. Virginia 2020-05-29 Denied appeal civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-to-dismiss remand standing Whether the second Judge who presided in Plaintiffs civil case violated the Constitution by denying Plaintiff's demand for a jury trial, again, after …
19-1315 Nevada, et al. v. Donald Walden, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal judicial-procedure removal sovereign-immunity state-courts state-immunity Whether a state remains immune from suit after voluntarily removing a federal claim to federal court when the state is immune from such claims in its …
19-8492 In Re Tim Sundy 2020-05-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record due-process equal-protection fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure mandamus standing Equal-protection
19-1294 Geoffrey Young v. Amy McGrath Kentucky 2020-05-15 Denied Response Waived ballot-access ballot-challenge civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation democratic-party due-process election-integrity election-law judicial-procedure kentucky-constitution political-parties primary-election standing Whether Kentucky's Judicial Department unlawfully enabled the names of Amy McGrath and Andy Beshear to appear on general election ballots
19-8467 Juan Petis McLendon v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-without-prejudice due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandatory-review speech-trial-act standing statutory-interpretation stricklands-prejudice Does a failure to obtain dismissal without prejudice under the Speech or Debate Act constitute 'STRICKLAND's prejudice' when the mandatory reversal in…
19-1281 Dimitritza Toromanova v. Summit Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-60(b) frcp-60(d) independent-action judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60(d) Did the doctrine of Claim Preclusion preclude a party from asserting the right to file a complaint as an independent action under FRCP 60(d)
19-1263 Mark Thompson v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment abstention administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights claim-splitting constitutional-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure ongoing-state-proceedings standing title-vii Did the lower federal courts err in not permitting petitioner's claims for injunctive relief against a state branch if the ongoing state proceedings v…
19-8376 Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti…
19-8291 Willis J. Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to advise a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the me…
19-8264 Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing Is it a constitutional violation of due process to have been sentenced while mentally incompetent?
19-1215 Steven Sussex, et ux. v. City of Tempe, Arizona Arizona 2020-04-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure enabling-act federal-defense federal-enabling-act federal-law federal-preemption judicial-procedure jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title state-law Can a state law bar a federal defense in a quiet title proceeding?
19-8247 John Wilson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-13 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court was obligated to determine the mental competency of a defendant before granting him the right to represent himself at trial if…
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?
19-8228 Kirk Russell Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing criminal-procedure direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure mandatory-claims-processing-rule procedural-error unique-circumstances Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal
19-8142 Robert Sarhan, et ux. v. H & H Investors, Inc. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-review denial-of-hearing due-process final-judgment indispensable-party judicial-procedure mortgage-foreclosure sanctions service-of-process void-judgment Whether Anabella Soury was denied due process in a mortgage foreclosure case
19-8067 Abdul Mohammed v. DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights counsel-appointment disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure medical-records mental-health reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act standing whether a Plaintiff with physical and mental disabilities in an Americans with Disabilities Act action need to reveal all his/her medical and mental h…
19-8093 Jose Passalacqua v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jury-misconduct motion-standard ninth-circuit rule-60(b) rule-60b scope-of-hearing successive-petition Did the Ninth Circuit Erred In Holding That Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion, Was the Equivalent to an Unauthorized Second or Successive 28 U.S.C. § 225…
19-8073 Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo…
19-8009 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (1)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure juror-contact juror-misconduct remmer sixth-amendment third-party-influence Does the Ninth Circuit's conclusion—that the state court's dismissal of this claim without a hearing was reasonable—conflict with this Court's decisio…
19-7975 Glenn Myer v. All Dulles Area Muslim Society Virginia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights,pro-se,due-process,court-rules,subpoe court-rules due-process judicial-procedure legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant standing subpoena Does Virginia have the right to discriminate against a Pro Se litigant and violate their Civil Rights, US Supreme Court Rulings, Court rules
19-7892 Frank Roark v. New York New York 2020-03-06 Denied IFP bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules judicial-procedure new-york-law standing Whether Frank Poorlh has standing and is the real party in interest in this matter
19-7859 Marlon Blacher v. California California 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-seizure civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process judicial-procedure neutral-hearing penal-code property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the California courts' denial of an evidentiary hearing is unreasonable and violates due process
19-7817 Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces…
19-7775 Rande Brian Isabella v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review circumstantial-evidence conflict-among-circuits criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-18-usc-2251a due-process evidence evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-procedure sexting statutory-interpretation substantial-step Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in disregarding review of essential elements at 18 U.S.C.§2251(a) and relying solely on circumstantia…
19-7808 Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas Texas 2020-02-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing Whether the trial judge's failure to retake and refile a valid oath of office before pronouncing sentence renders a judgment, conviction and sentence …
19-7793 Michael Deuschel v. City of Long Beach, California California 2020-02-26 Denied IFP ada ada-accommodation civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process judicial-procedure municipal-liability retroactivity trial-exclusion unconstitutional-custom Whether the City's 1 % year-long custom of illegal seizure, fraudulent post-storage notice, denied hearing, turning a blind eye and auction of Petitio…
19-7762 Galen LeMar Amerson, et al. v. Atlas Law Firm, P.C., et al. Colorado 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-contempt civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process hearing hearing-requirements judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions kidnapping liberty property warrantless-search If the right to a hearing is assured under due process, according to the 6th and 14th amendments, before a person can be deprived of life, liberty or …
19-7742 Derrick Lamark Lewis, Sr. v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-courts federal-remedies habeas judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-error standing state-court-proceedings state-courts What remedies are available when the state court's habeas proceedings are erroneous and contrary to the laws of justice?
19-7756 In Re Frank Deville 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-law hazardous-waste judicial-procedure liberal-amendment standing Is the Petitioner a victim in this case?
19-1011 Eric F. Kelly v. United States Armed Forces 2020-02-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals courts-martial criminal-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction military-court military-courts remand Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals must review the results of a court martial anew when the court previously reviewed the case but its judgm…
19-7596 Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS Whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict with the federal guidelines handout of the lower…
19-7582 Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing Question not identified
19-7554 Roger Hillygus v. Frances Doherty, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983,false-arrest,due-process, due-process false-arrest guardianship-fraud judicial-procedure qualified-immunity standing Did the trial court err when it dismissed with prejudice all of Plaintiffs' claims under 42 USC § 1983 when Plaintiff Roger Hillygus has suffered fals…
19-7511 Frank Deville, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2020-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure concealing-material-facts conflict-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fraud-particularity hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure legal-standards liberal-amendment material-facts standing What is the liberal ability to amend a complaint?
19-7451 David Keith Rogers v. California California 2020-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights court-discretion discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial hearing judicial-procedure juror-misconduct legal-review When a court is presented with admissions of clear juror misconduct is it constitutionally compelled to conduct a hearing to determine the extent and …
19-7365 Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Has the lower tribunal court denied Roberts due process and departed from the essential requirements of the law in denying him relief following his di…
19-7385 Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas Texas 2020-01-23 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con…
19-7357 Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing Whether the USDC-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice Petitioner's § 1982 Complaint aft…
19-7264 Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings appeals appellate-review case-review civil-rights court-decision criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in denying petitioner's request for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel and due process …
19-7152 Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. Massachusetts 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substanti…
19-7162 Carlos Juan Negron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-submission due-process filing habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-procedure legal-filing prison prison-filing prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether a document when placed in the hands of prison officials hands for mailing pursuant to Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.…
19-7132 Ric Thomason, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure defendant-presence defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure modified-sentence resentencing sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to hold a resentencing hearing, with the defendant present, prior to imposing a modified s…
19-7030 Margaret Guevara v. Mark Padin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP child-support civil-rights commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce interstate-dispute judicial-procedure standing Whether the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office is breaching the Commerce Clause by deducting wrongly calculated child support from Guevara's paychecks…
19-6998 Patrick Kofalt v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion conflict-of-interest due-process plea-agreement fourth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure judicial-shell-game nix-v-whiteside plea-agreement sixth-amendment Does controlling authority from the Supreme Court in Nix v. Whiteside, 475 US 157 (1986), hold that all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers are …
19-6835 Dennis David Antwine v. Branch Circuit Judge Michigan 2019-12-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure liberty-interest state-court state-law Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the state court deprived petitioner of his liberty interest created by state law?
19-6852 Matthew Tassone v. Zephynia Tassone Ohio 2019-12-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-1257a collateral-judgment constitutional-notice due-process extrinsic-fraud fair-notice fraud judicial-procedure state-action Are the Due Process requirements of the Constitution violated when the state defrauds a litigant of fair notice and a meaningful opportunity to be hea…
19-6827 Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit denied Dorcelus' motion for issuance of a certificate of appealability
19-6829 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal due-process,civil-rights,access-to-court,federal-procedure,recusal,civil-rico
19-650 Melissa L. Barnette v. PROF-2013-M4 Legal Title, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee District of Columbia 2019-11-20 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure property-rights standing Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in affirming the Superior Court's denial of Petitioner's motion to vacate the order granting s…
19-637 Emma Serna v. Margette Webster, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute default-judgments deprivation-of-rights due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure mandamus misconduct standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued to obtain a written judgment to execute, which has money issued with it, after the state supreme court had…
19-629 Tracy L. Stewart, et al. v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society Pennsylvania 2019-11-15 Denied civil-procedure due-process foreclosure judicial-procedure mortgage mortgage-standing property-law real-estate sheriff-sale standing trial-court-error Whether the trial court erred in not setting aside the sheriff's sale because the mortgage company lacked standing?
19-6554 Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43…
19-6483 Carl Robinson v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat Third Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard clearly-erroneous'-rule-52(a),exhaustion-of-remedi conviction court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-independence judicial-procedure legal-remedy procedural-due-process standard-of-review statute supplemental-response timeliness unfairness Was the Petitioner denied due process of law,in vi When there is no authority for the preparation of an opinion by the attorney for either side, should the Court of Appeals have applied the 'clearly-er…
19-6435 Iyang Peter Oduok v. Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority, dba Grady Memorial Hospital, et al. Georgia 2019-10-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-preemption constitutional-violation due-process federal-law georgia-supreme-court judicial-procedure preemption rule-13 rule-38 writ-of-certiorari Does Georgia Supreme Court Rule 38 conflict with federal law and preempt it?
19-6394 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's opinions on collateral orders
19-6312 Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
19-481 In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy 2019-10-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions regarding his candidacy in the 2016 and 2020-2024 elections
19-6138 William A. White v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-development evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief section-2255 supervisory-power May a District Court strike all evidence in a 28 USC §2255 proceeding and deny relief for failure to present evidence?
19-6079 Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand …
19-6012 Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducated P…
19-5899 Willie Harold House, et ux. v. Eileen Egland, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court judicial-procedure misprision-of-felony misprision-of-treason oath-of-office treason void-ruling Did the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overlook potential indication of treasonable actions in the District Court record, condoning a series of m…
19-5843 Gonzalo R. Rubang, Jr. v. Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal court-trial due-process insurance-claims judicial-procedure medical-treatment pro-se-petition procedural-fairness standing unfair unfair-dismissal workers-compensation Why the US COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT adopted the decision from the US DISTRICT COURT
19-317 Susan R. Gokool v. Oklahoma City University Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure legal-notice notice opportunity-to-be-heard sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the circuit court's failure to notify Petitioner to be heard and object to its sanction under Fed. R. Appl. P. 38 for costs under Fed. Appl. P…
19-5848 Saquawn Harris v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-review federal-rule-35 federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-statute judicial-procedure majority-vote recusal statutory-interpretation Whether recused judges are excluded from the count of a majority of judges in regular active service for purposes of granting en banc rehearing under …
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and interstate commerce…
19-5800 Darren Denson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-04 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was denied access to legal materials and s…
19-5822 Ronald Tuttle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing supervisory-powers supreme-court-review the-supreme-court Did the United States Supreme Court err in denying the petition for writ of certiorari
19-280 Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal standard-of-review standing summary-judgment What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion for summary judgment dismissing the right to a jury trial?
19-5764 Ola D. Dickens v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure jurisdiction seventh-amendment standing surveillance Whether circuit court made a mistake on order filed 12/04/2017, finding no basis in documents or records filed 11/07/2017, to conclude that any of Pla…
19-5760 Aly Toure v. New York New York 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights Did the appellate division violate clearly established federal supreme court ratified law?
19-5737 Jerome Burnam v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-reasoning due-process judicial-procedure mandamus meaningful-opportunity-to-seek-redress re-sentencing reasons reasons-on-the-record record redress sentence-imposition writ-of-mandamus Whether Writ of Mandamus jurisdiction was abridged or if this Petitioner's Due Process Rights were Denied to Meaningful opportunity to seek Redress, f…
19-5714 Dianne Michele Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings Is the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature superior?
19-231 Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied 5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent Was DAVIS improperly included?
19-226 Noel L. Smith v. Diane Smith Carusos Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics procedural-due-process remand remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a U.S. District Court have subject-matter jurisdiction to grant a motion that admittedly has never been served?
19-5641 David Anthony Gordon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process government-breach judicial-assignment judicial-procedure mandatory-minimum plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously dismissed portions of the appeal based on an invalid plea agreement waiver
19-206 In Re Melba L. Ford 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explanati…
19-193 Rodney Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen North Dakota 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota personal-representative property-rights supreme-court Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the Due Process and Equa…
19-5584 Christopher Isaac Simmons v. Grissom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-waiver due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-rights standing vexatious-litigant Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly revoke Appellant's In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g) where a 'high risk' prisoner clearly mad…
19-189 Miles Christian-Hart v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida 2019-08-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud judicial-procedure mortgage-litigation standing summary-judgment trial-rights Whether due process can abide a system in which one level of due process is accorded the bank and another level of due process is accorded the borrowe…
19-5524 Tong Lor v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa evidence-presented-in-state-court federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-procedure presumption-of-correctness state-court-finding-of-fact state-court-findings unreasonable-determination-of-facts Does the AEDPA require the presumption of correctness to be applied to the state court's finding of fact when the petitioner is challenging that fact,…
19-171 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2019-08-06 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment goldberg-v-kelly government-redress judicial-procedure Was Petitioner denied his Constitutional guaranteed rights, power, privilege, or immunity
19-165 Daniel T. Morgan v. Sheri A. Morgan Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) alimony-contract appellate-court contract contract-interpretation due-process en-banc judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation overrule same-case Whether it is due process of law for an intermediate appellate court, not en banc, to overrule its decision in the same case
19-5400 Jason Alston v. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., dba Luvel Fifth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP admissibility civil-procedure dispositive-motion district-court evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing hearing judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-motion Whether the Respondent's Declarations submitted with their Dispositive Motion inadmissible evidence?
19-5369 Willie Chambers v. Phil Hall, Warden Georgia 2019-07-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure multiplicitous-indictment post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt right-to-fair-trial right-to-life-and-liberty state-court-review vindictive-prosecution Whether the petitioner has a valid claim of a constitutional right to be free from a vindictive and multiplicitous indictment that he now stands convi…
19-5355 Benny Ray Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment hearing-neutrality judicial-procedure neutral-hearing-body parole plea-bargaining probation probation-revocation revocation-hearing waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant waives his right, under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, to a neutral and detached hearing body at his probation-rev…
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court committed a Manifest error by Failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article III, subsection 2, and 38 U.S.C.…
19-5328 Lyle R. Harrison v. Moultrie County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-subsidies indigency judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial state-jurisdiction usda-fsa-subsidies Whether due process allows the Illinois Courts jurisdiction over federal farm USDA/FSA subsidies, or federal courts jurisdiction over federal farm USD…
19-5314 Aurora Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
19-5257 In Re Vincent Johnson 2019-07-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-60-b-6 clerk clerk-filing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdiction motion motion-for-relief relief-sought rule-60-motion sixth-circuit standing Whether the clerk for the Sixth Circuit Debbrah Hunt should be order to file movant's R. 60(b)(6) motion
19-79 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process federalism full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure jurisdiction marital-estate property-law sister-state Does this constitute a policy of 'hostility to the public Acts' of a sister State?
19-5185 William Eric Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner?
19-50 John DeRaffele v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa…
19-5118 Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington Washington 2019-07-09 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court imposes a condition that requires a defendant to 'successfully complete' a treatment pr…
19-5056 Byron Randall Fisher v. Richmond, The American International University in London, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP binding-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-precedent spoliation-of-evidence veterans-affairs Did the lower courts violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by allowing the Respondent to utilize the same falsified ev…
19-5016 Michael A. Salazar v. HEB Grocery Company, LP, et al. Texas 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud judicial-procedure petition-clause right-to-petition right-to-sue standing Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in affirming the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's case, which violated the petitioner's due process r…
19-13 Tennessee v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention certification diversity-jurisdiction federal-court first-impression judicial-procedure state-constitution state-constitutional-issue state-law state-statute Whether a federal court exercising its diversity jurisdiction should certify an important state constitutional issue of first impression to the State'…
19-1 Karen Khan v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-procedure plausibility-standard standing Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Iq…
18A1369 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-panel due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing an appellate panel without notice or by requiring a judge to sit on a pane…
18-9776 Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-9706 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-concealment evidence-disclosure fair-trial judicial-access judicial-procedure mandamus material-facts rules-and-regulations standing state-procedure transparency Whether the state violated the Constitution and deprived petitioner of due process rights by concealing exculpatory evidence and witness statements fr…
18-9595 Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the…
18-9441 Regina Lewis v. Newburgh Housing Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accommodation accommodation-rights ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process housing-authority judicial-improvement-act judicial-procedure notice rehabilitation-act standing Did the Newburgh Housing Authority violate the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 § 112 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
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, …
18-9347 Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas Kansas 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation Was Mc. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three…
18-1440 Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. North Dakota 2019-05-17 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and equa…
18-9329 Sean M. Barnhill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis
18-9296 In Re Allen J. Dannewitz, Jr. 2019-05-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-violation civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment guardianship guardianship-rights judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether ward was ever incapacitated
18-9276 In Re Jesus Avila 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure miscarriage-of-justice motion-recharacterization rule-60 rule-60(b)(6) standing statutory-interpretation Whether the re-characterization of Jesus Avila's properly filed Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitutes an impermissible miscarriage of justice
18-9222 Michael Owen Harriot v. Robert Waizenhofer, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mclaughlin-violation notice-and-opportunity standing statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Whether the Court of Appeals exceeded its authority to affirm a judgment as time barred
18-1406 Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. Arizona 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing …
18-9122 Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey applies to denial of access to court claims?
18-1377 Kwame Gyamfi v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-procedure standing trojan-servers Whether the use of 'Trojan Servers' by federal courts to manage cases violates the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth Amendment
18-9059 Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violated the procedure prescribed by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and imposed an improper b…
18-8997 Troy Williams v. Florida Florida 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief Whether the Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon …
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8959 James Paul Arlotta v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and appeals court properly addressed the constitutionality of the Wall Street Reform Act
18-1324 Moses Watts, Sr., et ux. v. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Arkansas 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived due-process eminent-domain equal-protection ex-parte ex-parte-order judicial-procedure pro-se property-rights severance-damages takings Whether petitioners were denied due process of law by an ex parte order enabling an electric utility to seize their property without notice and a prel…
18-8914 Manuel Cazares v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 conclusiveness district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure lower-court reply rules-governing-section-2254 section-2254 writ-of-habeas-corpus May Rule 5(e) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Courts, entitled Reply, be disregarded by the lower court?
18-1311 Cathy Cardillo v. Mark Neary, Clerk, Supreme Court of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived adequate-notice attorney-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic-industries-corp hearing jones-v-flowers judicial-procedure legal-review middlesex-county-ethics-comm-v-bar-assn notice-requirement rooker-feldman-doctrine state-courts Can the Constitutional right to due process or 'adequate notice and a hearing' be ignored by the Courts below?
18-1303 Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell California 2019-04-15 Denied appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing Whether a single court of appeals justice can dismiss an appeal after the appellant has shown that all notices of appeal were timely filed and fees pa…
18-1292 Craig Roth v. Nassau County, New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability due-process employment federal-claims judicial-procedure Are lower courts correctly applying the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel to bar federal claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
18-1284 Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. North Carolina 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.…
18-8720 Rodney Reep v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-records agency-referrals civil-procedure exemption-7(c) exemption-interpretation foia foia-request government-disclosure government-misconduct grand-jury improper-conduct judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations Does 28 U.S.C. §2401(a) apply to FOIA?
18-1263 Jason Brian Braun v. Department of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-error civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-petition standing status-conference transfer venue venue-transfer Whether district court erred in dismissing claims and transferring venue in violation of rules and procedures
18A1004 Marcus Davis v. Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-02 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court foreclosure judicial-procedure pro-se waiver Whether a pro se litigant's failure to challenge the specific legal basis for a district court's dismissal of a foreclosure complaint constitutes a pr…
18A1000 Parviz Karim-Panahi v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-01 Presumed Complete district-court federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure pro-se removal writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal district court improperly remanded a case to state court after the plaintiff had validly removed the case to federal jurisdiction
18-1251 Sandy Annabi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of …
18-8594 Jason Allen Tiszai v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-1236 S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Texas 2019-03-22 Denied amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure mandamus standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether Petitioners' due process right was violated when the Supreme Court of Texas summarily denied their petition for writ of mandamus without reaso…
18-8516 John E. Drummond v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due-process claim
18-8499 Nestor David Vasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-fairness courtroom-prejudice courtroom-security defendant-rights defendant-specific-security fair-trial fair-trial-rights inherent-prejudice inherently-prejudicial judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements trial-security Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened the Supreme Court's holding in Holbrook v. Flynn by finding that the defendant-specific security measures employ…
18-8423 Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation Whether the application should have been granted after the respondent failed to reply to the court orders
18-8257 Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-order dismissal due-process fraud judge judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-review procedural-taint standing tainted Whether Judge Chuang was fair
18-8345 Gary Lakey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indictment judicial-procedure jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit decide an appeal without jurisdiction when it denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on all issues on the basis that the…
18-8348 Blair Garner v. William Lee, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 911-recordings ancillary-finding appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process due-process-clause factual-determination factual-findings federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure notice notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard standard-of-review Whether the Second Circuit erred in rejecting the district court's prejudice determination without consulting the underlying 911 call recordings, with…
18-8241 Andrew Guy Moret v. Pat Garrett Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-petition Does the seriousness of criminal charges obviate the states' governments' obligation to uphold the constitutional rights of the accused?
18-8289 Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee…
18-8157 James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness Is a constitutional right of access to the courts being denied when a fraud on a state court decision is used to prove untimeliness when federal court…
18-1093 City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. v. Elijah Manuel Seventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 accrual accrual-rule civil-rights fourth-amendment judicial-procedure manuel-v-city-of-joliet pretrial-detention section-1983 Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a Fourth Amendment claim for unlawful post-process, pretrial detention brought pursuant to §1983 is …
18-1095 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-discharge-injunction bankruptcy-discharge bosse bosse-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights court-judgment creditor-rights discharged-debtor judicial-procedure personal-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine unsecured-creditor Whether 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) and 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(2) void court judgments that determine a discharged Chapter 7 no asset' debtor still has pe…
18-8091 Alvin Jakelyn Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conclusively-apparent-from-the-record direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure standard-of-proof standard-of-review summary-rejection Whether the court of appeals summary rejection of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on direct appeal by placing the burden on the defendant a…
18-8112 Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing Should the judgment be vacated and remanded in light of Buck v. Davis?
18-7909 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Correct Care, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process imminent-injury in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure monell monell-claim standing temporary-injunction Can cases still under litigation be used as a reason to deny a plaintiff under threat of imminent injury or loss of life the right to proceed in forma…
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-7924 Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by allowing the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to be used to grant motion for issue preclusion?
18-1003 Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the t…
18-7706 Syed Nazim Ali v. Interactive Brokers LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing civil-rights corporate-law corporate-laws corporate-representation due-process fair-justice judicial-procedure legal-representation legal-standing pro-se-litigation shareholder shareholder-exception shareholder-rights standing Whether the district court erred by dismissing the case on the grounds that the Petitioner who is the sole owner and shareholder of the corporation di…
18-7650 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc…
18-7661 Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely Is diligence in discovering new evidence a condition to filing a postconviction motion or a condition to obtaining relief on that motion?
18-7558 Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida Florida 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether petitioner is entitled to discharge, new trial, and/or resentencing based on the trial court failing to conduct a competency hearing
18-961 Mitchell R. Swartz v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-145 35-usc-section-145 administrative-law civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-procedure patent patent-application patent-law-35-usc-145 patent-office standing takings Whether the court erred in not being consistent with prior Supreme Court decisions regarding the requirement of 35 U.S.C. §145 claims to address new e…
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability?
18-7528 In Re Keith E. Doyle 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment adversarial-hearing constitutional-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-by-information information-document intent-of-delegates judicial-procedure montana-constitution preliminary-examination preliminary-hearing void-proceedings Did the district court judge violate my right to Due Process of Law, factually loose jurisdiction, and create void proceedings?
18-7519 Daltonia Duncan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody …
18-7328 Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires compensation when the government imposes a regulatory burden on private property that does …
18-886 Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv…
18-834 Farzana Sheikh, et vir v. San Joaquin General Hospital Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure magistrate magistrate-referral standing Whether Local Rule 302 (c) (21) of Eastern District of California conforms with 28 U.S.C. § 636 and conforms with Article III Jurisprudence?
18-7219 Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness
18-7191 Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa…
18-7190 Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. Florida 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due-process rights when it refused to allow testimony or review evidence presented in support of Petitioner's as…
18-796 Bruce Alexander v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived accountability attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process equal-protection government-accountability investigation judicial-procedure municipal-governance official-accountability standing Did the Western District Court err in not allowing all parties to respond to the original complaint?
18-7037 Gerald L. Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states Whether the district court and Eighth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's true Rule 60(b)(6) motion, when the district court failed to address petit…
18-709 Maria Bentley, et al. v. Victoria Vooys, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law cost-bond due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause judicial-procedure non-resident-plaintiff privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause rational-basis-review security-bond virgin-islands Whether a statute requiring a non-resident plaintiff to post a security bond for costs violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause or the Equal Prot…
18-6695 Zafar Mehmood v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli…
18-6714 Maikel Suarez Plasencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-procedure sentencing trial-procedure Whether the petitioner's sentence of 24-36 months was reasonable and should be taken into account to give the petitioner a sentence of 16 months
18-6683 Cody Sakoman v. California California 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-6605 Joseph Perrone v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-proceeding appellate-review burrage-precedent causation causation-standard due-process government-assertions judicial-procedure record standard standard-of-proof united-states-v-burrage Did the lower courts refuse to follow the decision and holdings of this Court in United States v. Burrage, 571 U.S. 204, 134 S.Ct. 881, 187 L.Ed.2d 71…
18-6494 Terrance Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b) motion without discovery or an evidentiary hearing?
18-6506 Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires…
18-539 George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly Rhode Island 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full-faith-and-credit-clause by failing to uphold and enforce a Utah court's order fin…
18-6393 Omar Qazi v. Janice Killian, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2243 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-dismissal standing Does 28 U.S.C. § 2243 authorize dismissal of a 2241 petition for failure to state a claim?
18-495 Morris & Associates, Inc. v. John Bean Technologies Corporation Federal Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied claim-construction due-process equitable-estoppel federal-circuit implied-license judicial-procedure patent patent-claims patent-infringement patent-law reexamination scotus-precedent waiver Whether the Federal Circuit erred and contradicted a century of this Court's licensing precedent in holding that implied license rights to a patent ar…
18-435 LabMD, Inc. v. Tiversa, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-agency fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court government-fraud hazel-atlas intentional-misrepresentation judicial-procedure mens-rea rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) standing wilful-blindness Whether a judgment obtained by fraud on a court must be set aside
18-6218 Desrel Ray Linden v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-question habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure supervisory-power Whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in inverting the statutory order of operation by deciding the merits of the appeal and then deny…
18-6166 Syed K. Rafi v. Brigham and Women's Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1985-1986 circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process judicial-procedure mandate mandate-recall mandates motions-for-reconsideration pro-se-petition recall-mandate reconsideration standing supreme-court-rules time-frame Whether the time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should run from the date of the First Circuit Court's order denying appellant's motions for…
18-6143 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial Whether the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a certificate of appealability complies with this Court's precedents requiring that a COA be granted if …
18-6109 Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service Ninth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a
18-6065 In Re Eric M. Richardson 2018-09-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violated his Fifth Amendment right to be tried only on an offense made out in a presentment or indict…
18-320 CEH Energy, LLC, et al. v. Kean Miller, LLP, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived appeal appeals appellate-deadline circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure motion-to-alter new-grounds rule-59(e) rule-59e successive-motions tolling tolling-provision Should the Supreme Court reverse this outlier Fifth Circuit case and provide clear guidance to practitioners on when successive Rule 59(e) motions are…
18-5945 David Chiddo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP appeal-from-magistrate circuit-split district-court-order federal-magistrates-act felony-guilty-plea felony-plea judicial-procedure magistrate-authority plea-agreement plea-agreement-stipulation statutory-authority statutory-interpretation stipulated-facts Does a federal magistrate have authority to accept a felony guilty plea?
18-5947 Stevie Andre Roberson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations texas-supreme-court Whether district court's decision to deny petitioner's areas autonomy is barred by statute of limitation of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Pen…
18-314 Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U…
18-283 Charles Coleman, et al. v. Campbell County Library Board of Trustees Kentucky 2018-09-05 Denied Amici (2) due-process federal-due-process-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure prospective-only retroactive-relief state-law state-retroactivity-doctrines tax-relief unlawful-taxes Whether a state can circumvent the requirements of the Due Process Clause to provide taxpayers retroactive relief from unlawful taxes by making its de…
18-5883 Burdette Lowe v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-retaliation civil-rights disability due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination judicial-procedure pleading-standard pleading-standards retaliation Whether lower courts can dismiss disability-related occupational injury civil complaints by omitting essential facts and misconstruing allegations, cr…
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders, courts must forward…
18-5862 Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing Whether a prisoner has a constitutional right of access to the courts to litigate civil claims unrelated to his/her sentence or conviction?
18-250 Tu Ying Chen v. Suffolk County Community College, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights court-judgment defendant-actions due-process evidence false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-review legal-standards misconduct plaintiff-claims standing wrongful-probation wrongful-termination Was there misconduct by and false evidence submitted by the Defendants?
18-220 Javier A. Carrillo, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Florida 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) 15-usc-1635 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal creditor-possession due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-review per-curiam rescission-right standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-possession Can borrowers exercise the right to rescind a transaction under 15 U.S.C. 1635(b) and require the creditor to take possession of the property within 2…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado…
18-5626 Bruce Wishnefsky v. Jawad Salameh, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process federal-statute in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-appeal prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-provision Whether the 'three strikes' provision of the federal in forma pauperis statute bars a prisoner from appealing in forma pauperis a district court dismi…
18-5575 In Re Allah 2018-08-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review malicious-prosecution mandamus standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts failed to properly dismiss the malicious prosecution against him, i…
18-5542 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur Whether the finding of fact prior to vacating the forfeiture order becomes 'Law-of-the-Case' upon remand
18-5487 Angel Soto v. Unknown Sweetman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP accrual-of-claims administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights claim-accrual judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations When does a claim accrue under the Prison Litigation Reform Act's mandatory exhaustion requirement?
18-123 In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing
18-126 Paul Grimstad v. Deschutes County, Oregon, et al. Oregon 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived citizenship-privileges constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure oregon-appellate-courts right-to-petition self-representation state-court-procedure Whether the abuses I experienced in the Oregon Appellate Courts violated my constitutional guarantees to due-process, equal-protection, right-to-petit…
18-5334 Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result
18-5262 In Re Edward McLaughlin 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau…
18-79 Tiberiu Klein, et al. v. Daniel O'Brien, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process fraud incompetence judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-standards notice opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Seventh Circuit violates its own Standards and Rules and violate petitioners' due process rights in falsely accusing an attorney of pretense, …
18-5236 In Re Ferlando Esco 2018-07-13 Denied IFP ' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue to compel the Fifth Circuit to decide the merits of a request for certificate of appealability regarding two d…
18-5160 Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless-error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida in pre-Hurst cases violates the Eigh…
18-5166 Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when…
18-21 Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding th…
25A480 Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. Third Circuit Application digital-video evidence-authentication judicial-procedure rule-403 rule-901 surveillance-footage Whether the Supreme Court should establish minimum standards for digital video authentication and admissibility in judicial proceedings to prevent pot…
23A422 R. J. Kulick v. Ruth Stubba, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge pro-se Whether a pro se litigant with disabilities can challenge federal court procedural rules and jurisdictional determinations based on constitutional due…
24A729 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete appellate-discretion judicial-procedure litigation-strategy mandate-recall ninth-circuit pro-se Whether a federal appellate court improperly exercised its discretion in denying a pro se litigant's request to recall a mandate in a complex multi-pa…