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25A877 Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Application criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus Whether a federal death row inmate can obtain judicial relief through a writ of mandamus seeking a trial judge's recusal in post-conviction proceeding…
25A763 Peter Szanto v. Evye Geller Szanto, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application appellate-review certiorari-extension judicial-bias judicial-recusal liteky-standard supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court should reconsider its precedent in Liteky v. United States regarding judicial bias and the standard for judicial recusal in …
25A737 Frank Polo v. Scott Bernstein, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Application access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal procedural-fairness shotgun-pleading Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated a pro se litigant's constitutional right of access to courts and due process by applying an inconsistent and ove…
25-6365 Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending IFP ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access Whether a state judge can issue substantive orders after formal recusal and whether federal courts can affirm void orders
25-6160 Pamela Short Powell, Individually and on Behalf of Diana Lynn Short, Margaret Julia Short, Daniel Alan Short, and Jack Warren Short, Jr. v. Anthony Decicco, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied IFP fifth-circuit-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-conflict judicial-recusal procedural-irregularity sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in sua sponte dismissal of a case without addressing multiple procedural irregularities including judicial conflicts, …
25-6139 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-prosecution due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal reasonable-person-standard Would a reasonable person conclude that a judge could remain impartial during a conspiracy prosecution when the judge has already found others guilty …
25-5855 In Re Caleb McGillvary 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3rd-circuit conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue to require recusal of 3rd Circuit judges due to alleged conflicts of interest in a habeas corpus proceeding
25-5754 Biobele Georgewill v. Joshua M. Ball, et al. Tennessee 2025-09-29 Denied IFP constitutional-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-recusal professional-relationship Whether a judge's 14-year professional partnership with a law firm now appearing as a defendant creates an unconstitutional appearance of bias under t…
25-355 James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-24 Rehearing Amici (3) appellate-deference bankruptcy-proceedings judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus-review standard-of-review Whether appellate courts should review a judge's order declining to recuse de novo or for abuse of discretion and whether mandamus review requires two…
25-5483 Z. G. v. M. C. Pennsylvania 2025-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal Whether a judge who made stigmatizing statements about a disability contravened the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Due Process Clause by fail…
25A176 James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion de-novo-review judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-petition standard-of-review Whether a judge's recusal decision should be reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard or de novo review when reviewing potential judicial bias
25-5275 Kayla Williams v. Pennsylvania State University, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-recusal Whether the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment requires public universities to allow accused students a meaningful opportunity to cross-examine …
25-5175 Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues in an original All Writs Petition violates the Supremacy Clause, …
25-5089 Veronica M. Johnson v. William S. Moore, Judge, Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal pro-se-plaintiff Whether the unprecedented conduct of sitting Portsmouth Circuit Court judges in a sua sponte joint administrative Recusal Order violates a pro se Plai…
24-7437 Kaveh L. Afrasiabi v. President and Fellows of Harvard College Massachusetts 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process harvard-university judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-fairness Whether a presiding justice should have recused himself from a case involving Harvard University due to extensive connections and potential conflict o…
24-1193 In Re Sean Murphy, et al. 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights judicial-recusal judicial-review procedural-due-process Whether the Sixth Circuit clerks had the authority to render judgment on dispositive motions without judicial review or proper delegation; whether una…
24-7156 Michael S. Main v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP defendant-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal post-conviction preliminary-hearing procedural-due-process Whether a judge should have recused himself in a post-conviction petition, and whether a defendant has the right to an effective preliminary inquiry w…
24-1118 Dongmei Li v. Richard Peck, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal Whether a federal judge's refusal to recuse violates constitutional due process rights under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) and the Fourteenth Amendment
24-6767 Brandon Green v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment Whether a federal district judge's refusal to recuse himself after making prejudicial statements, displaying hostility toward a pro se defendant, and …
24-944 Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Relisted (2) conflict-of-interest due-process investment-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation Whether the failure to rule on judicial recusal under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) constitutes a due process violation when a judge's spouse has financial ties …
24-6580 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics judicial-recusal Whether a federal judge should have recused himself under 28 U.S.C. §455(b)(2) due to prior involvement in creating the financial problems underlying …
24-763 In Re Bo Zou 2025-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review conflict-of-interest court-jurisdiction judicial-recusal legal-ethics procedural-irregularity Whether district judge John D. Russell may hear his Client's Case after leaving his former law firm one month prior, and whether the Tenth Circuit Cou…
24-722 Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. Tennessee 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent Whether Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court constitutes a structural constitutional violation under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces…
24A626 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-judge judicial-recusal structural-right Whether a state supreme court rule requiring timely judicial recusal motions violates a litigant's structural due process right to an impartial judge …
24-579 Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived ethics-commission expert-affidavit fifth-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-due-process Must a district court judge recuse himself when an expert affidavit challenges his impartiality after reporting a criminal defendant's attorney to an …
24-5977 Sammy Lee Gibbs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-11-15 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction Whether all judges in the United States are bound to follow the Constitution, whether state courts can deprive persons of life, liberty, or property w…
24-5873 In Re Dana Albrecht 2024-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-influence judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus official-communication Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald to disclose details of a conversation regarding Justice Anna Barbara …
24A365 Patrick Comack v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete academic-conflict bias disability-claim judicial-recusal mandamus social-security Whether a federal district court judge's prior academic affiliation creates a legally cognizable basis for mandatory judicial recusal in a social secu…
24A364 Debra Brown v. et Bank of America Corporation, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete court-integrity due-process financial-conflict judicial-recusal mandamus section-455 Whether a federal district court judge's undisclosed financial interest in a party requires mandatory vacatur of a judgment under judicial recusal sta…
24A280 Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete criminal-proceeding district-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus Whether a federal district court judge's refusal to recuse themselves from a criminal proceeding violates a defendant's due process rights or constitu…
24-5334 Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. Oklahoma 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support constitutional-challenges criminal-procedure due-process judicial-recusal state-taxation Whether a court can convict an American citizen without trial after pleading not guilty, whether a judge can rule on matters during a recusal action, …
24-166 In Re Mawule Tepe 2024-08-15 Denied due-process federal-bar-admission judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-recusal oath-of-office sixth-amendment Is the case proceeding valid and consistent with due process when courts refuse to recuse judges and disqualify attorneys who lack proper oaths of off…
23-1318 Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Holding Corporation, et al. California 2024-06-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process emotional-distress judicial-recusal recusal self-representation standing due-process-clause
23-1266 Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. Texas 2024-06-04 Denied campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, violate the Fo…
23-7555 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure due-process federal-defender judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review Should a court of appeals review a judge's denial of a motion to recuse de novo or for an abuse of discretion?
23-7360 Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination Whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recusal of a judge prior to a final determination on the merits
23-1123 In Re Lawyers For Fair Reciprocal Admission 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment judicial-recusal local-court-rules local-rules rules-enabling-act supervisory-power third-circuit Should this Court exercise its supervisory duty over local rules and the administration of justice in the federal courts and assign a hearing panel co…
23-7234 Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict Whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality when the judge allowed an AUSA who became a witness in the proceedi…
23-7137 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton Texas 2024-04-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal Can a state district judge be removed from a child-custody case for violation-of-due-process-clause, 14th-amendment, when the judge omits exception-28…
23-1072 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-02 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation Does §455(b)(3) require recusal when a federal judge is assigned to a case involving the same parties, same facts, and same issues as a case in which …
23-1015 Norman Seabrook v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus habeas-law ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal light-most-favorable notice-and-hearing procedural-due-process sixth-amendment sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal Did the District Court's sua sponte denial of Petitioner's habeas petition alleging ineffectiveness of trial counsel violate habeas procedural law?
23-6811 In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appearance-of-bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-fairness standing takings The legal issues being raised
23-823 Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing whether-enforcing-28-usc-455(a)-will-restore-public-confidence
23-816 In Re Shiva Akula 2024-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue Does district-court-judges have-to-disclose-financial-holdings
23-6545 Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing Did the Fifth Circuit flout SCOTUS precedent in Buck v. Davis?
23-744 Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church California 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal recusal right-to-appeal self-represented-litigant standing Should Due Process be afforded to self-represented litigant in civil case against Catholic Church?
23A611 Linda Ann Wright v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1985 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process elder-abuse judicial-recusal Whether federal courts improperly dismissed civil rights claims involving alleged elder abuse and constitutional violations without proper judicial re…
23-6232 Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama Alabama 2023-12-13 Denied Relisted (7)IFP bite-mark bite-mark-analysis conflicted-judge due-process expert-testimony forensic-evidence judicial-recusal recanted-testimony scientific-developments scientific-reliability Whether due process prohibits a conviction based on forensic evidence later shown to be unreliable
23-6137 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-recusal prejudice recusal three-judge-panel Did Respondents deny defendant-appellant's due-process rights by failing to provide a three-judge panel on appeal?
23A454 Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. Texas 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete bill-of-review constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal Whether the lower courts violated the applicant's constitutional due process rights through judicial misconduct, procedural errors, and improper recus…
23-510 Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment Does a self-evaluative review by a state court justice challenged for disqualification deny the due process right to a fair hearing under the Fourteen…
23-5943 Saria Walker v. United States Federal Government, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-conspiracy civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal pro-se-plaintiff Why is a Judge Not recusal themselves when they are Named as defendants in the case?
23-5892 Shane Woodgeard v. Timothy Heavlin, et al. Ohio 2023-10-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bond-setting case-consolidation change-of-venue civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal venue-change Did a lower Court violate Rights in issuing an unheard of, $100,000 bond on a misdemeanor, when there was overwhelming evidence showing there was no c…
23-5774 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-policy civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus-petition public-confidence standing Is the Eleventh Circuit's policy of refusing review of facially valid mandamus petitions for recusal causing irreparable harm to the public's percepti…
23A268 Patrick Lockhart v. Karen Lockhart West Virginia 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection equitable-distribution extrinsic-fraud judicial-recusal void-ab-initio Whether a state trial court's refusal to recuse itself after a party files a federal civil rights lawsuit against the judge, combined with the issuanc…
23-281 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo?
23-5592 Beau John Greene v. Arizona Arizona 2023-09-15 Denied IFP appellate-review arizona constitutional-bias death-penalty due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal prosecutorial-conflict recusal williams-v-pennsylvania Did the appellate court violate Greene's due process rights by creating an impermissible risk of actual bias by allowing Justice Montgomery to decide …
23-193 Richard Rynn v. First Transit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings dismissal due-process employment-retaliation freedom-of-speech judicial-recusal retaliation Should assigned District court judge recuse himself due to conflict of interest?
23A191 Anthony Kinney v. Supreme Court of New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review attorney's-fees caperton-standard conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal Whether a state trial judge's failure to recuse himself despite a financial interest in a party's law firm, combined with sua sponte ordering of unnec…
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1)
23-5312 In Re Brian D. Smith 2023-08-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal plea-bargaining right-to-appeal Is Smith's plea of guilty invalid?
23-118 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action…
23-106 Allan Nowicki, et al. v. Crown Financial Corporation Pennsylvania 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal legal-procedure recusal standing void-judgment Are the judgments entered in this case void because they were obtained by a fraud upon the court?
22-7820 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality
22-1144 Farva Jafri v. Signal Funding, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied appellate-review civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay equal-pay-act human-rights-act judicial-bias judicial-recusal media-attention summary-judgment Whether the Honorable Judge Easterbrook and the Honorable Judge Wood should have voluntarily recused themselves
22-7607 Sensa Verogna v. Andrea K. Johnstone, et al. First Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extrajudicial-knowledge federal-judges judicial-immunity judicial-recusal recusal standing Should a judge recuse themselves having learned through their administrative duties, material facts deriving from an extrajudicial source?
22-7601 Daniel E. Hall v. Twitter, Inc. First Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Was recusal mandatory under § 455(b)(1) and § 144 and § 455(a) where the trial judge's activities involved disputed evidentiary facts and a reasonable…
22-1109 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal Has Irving Rounds, Jr. been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
22-7534 Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation Fourth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law Whether the privilege against self-incrimination as set forth in Brown v. United States should be weighed against the need to put forward a defense th…
22-7519 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from
22-7298 In Re Gabriel Desmond Yankey, Jr. 2023-04-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-district judicial-recusal legal-standing petitioner-rights procedural-rights standing Is the petitioner's confinement in violation of the United States Constitution?
22-903 Jay Goodley v. Charles M. Greene Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-capacity judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-recusal recusal separation-of-powers Whether a judge can change the law while presiding over a case they were recused from
22-651 Kenneth Kellogg, et al. v. Watts Guerra LLP, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived attorney-deceit class-action due-process fee-contract judicial-recusal mass-tort multidistrict-litigation Can lawyers privately contract clients and absent class members out of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 class action?
22-6254 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality-standard judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal media-bias media-coverage recusal Whether a criminal defendant's due process right to a fair trial is violated when numerous media reports raise reasonable questions about a district c…
22-449 Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. Washington 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal Whether judges must address judicial partiality claims
22-458 TIG Insurance Company v. ExxonMobil Oil Corporation Second Circuit 2022-11-15 Dismissed 28-usc-455 appellate-review financial-conflict judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal legal-procedure liljeberg-test public-confidence-in-judiciary Whether a court must automatically decline to vacate a judgment rendered by a judge with a financial interest in the party in whose favor he ruled, in…
22-5995 Collucci J. Myers v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-455 bias-complaint civil-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process judicial-recusal notice-of-lawsuit pro-se-litigation procedural-standards standing Appropriate-standard-for-recusal-of-judges
22-409 Alexander Moskovits v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-recusal supervisory-power Whether instituting sealed proceedings in a civil case violates Constitutional rights
22-5778 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-06 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal property-rights recusal sanctions Should a judge be recused for bias and failure to provide due process?
22-246 Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Amici (4) blind-trust financial-interest harmless-error judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp stock-divestment whether-placing-stock-in-a-blind-trust-satisfies-455(f)
22-5348 Clarence Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge
21-1560 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions Whether a judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned
21-7820 Darron Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus-petition probable-cause standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to recuse a judge who engaged in wrongful, excessive, inappr…
21-1343 Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico 2022-04-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so…
21-7588 Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC Seventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal
21-1313 Martin Gottesfeld v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a different judge can make the requisite 'ends of justice' findings to support a continuance under the Speedy Trial Act
21-1299 Nicholas D. Scoyni v. Daniel R. Salvador, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-recusal procedural-rules recuse service-mark service-marks takings-clause trademarks Does the district court have the right to adjudicate an intellectual-property case without addressing parties' pleas, disregarding legal precedence of…
21-1253 Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied 28-usc-455a bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-settlement bar-order chapter-7-trustee due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-recusal stern-v-marshall Did the Chapter 7 Trustee fail to provide transparency and observe its fiduciary duties to Debtor, all as allowed by the Bankruptcy Court?
21-7377 Rosee Torres, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction identity-theft judicial-recusal mortgage-fraud rico-act standing takings Whether Torres are entitled to protections of Amendments 5, 6, 7, 13, and 14 to the Constitution
21-1224 Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank, National Association Washington 2022-03-09 Denied due-process equity-jurisdiction foreclosure-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-partiality judicial-power judicial-recusal state-statute Did judicial officer, the Honorable Robert E. Olson, legitimately exercise the judicial power of the Superior Court for Whatcom County, Washington as …
21-1109 Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due-process, whistleblower, recusal, administrative-law-judge, c…
21-6805 Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment Whether the district court judge erred in not recusing himself
21-6630 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-455 appeal appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute guilty-plea judicial-recusal recusal waiver-of-rights Whether an unconditional guilty plea waives a federal criminal defendant's right to appeal a district court's failure to recuse under 28 U.S.C. § 455(…
21-866 Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation Whether the retroactive application of the severance of the government-debt exception in Barr v. AAPC violates the First Amendment by re-creating the …
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-6522 Mithun Banerjee v. Bank of America, N.A. Maryland 2021-12-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial judicial-corruption judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-recusal recusal Will the US Supreme Court provide a fair trial to the Plaintiff where the Circuit Court Judges have conflicts of interest?
21-6303 C. K. J. v. M. J. T. Pennsylvania 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights custody-proceedings due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal protective-orders recusal standing Is it a violation of the Constitution for a judge to evaluate their own judge recusal and if they do should the case be vacated?
21-710 Valerie Jackson v. Lupe Valdez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal standing statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may disregard this Court's precedent and the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 144, review and rebut the merits of an affidavit s…
21-714 Judy Morrow Wright, et vir v. Matthew G. Buyer, et al. Tennessee 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived appearance-of-bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-recusal recusal structural-error structural-right williams-precedent williams-v-pennsylvania Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court's Rule 10B unconstitutionally impedes Petitioners' structural right to an impartial judge
21-5562 Richard C. Curran v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment case-reassignment due-process equal-protection government-interference judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal reassignment recusal Did President Judge William Harvey Wiest abuse his authority by recusing the entire Northumberland County Court of Common Pleas from hearing any of my…
21-5309 Zachary Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-06 Denied IFP actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure Due-process-recusal
21-5254 Baboucar Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. New Hampshire 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal Whether a party is entitled to a new trial for violations of their 5th, 13th, and 14th Amendment rights when the state judge presiding over the case i…
21-88 Christina Paylan v. Darrell Dirks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived accountability civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-recusal standing Whether the standard for judicial recusal requires a strict uniform criteria
21-5035 Ronald Pyles v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2021-07-08 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation civil-rights due-process ethical-standards ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal witness-testimony Question not identified
20-8178 Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal Whether a judge must be disqualified under 28 U.S.C. § 455 if the judge makes rulings more restrictive against one party than the other in comparable …
20-7789 In Re Michael K. Ciacci 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-of-columbia district-of-columbia-code due-process exhaustion-of-remedies ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal procedural-exhaustion savings-clause state-remedies Whether the scope of the savings clause under District of Columbia Code Section 23-110(g) is open to a claim supported by judicial failure to recuse?
20-1227 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation Whether the 9th Circuit Court had full jurisdiction of the appeal, having no notice of appeal filed by petitioner in the District Court until 1 year a…
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to require federal judges to disclose information relevant to disqualification?
20-954 Ohio, ex rel. Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. v. Maureen O’Connor, et al. Ohio 2021-01-14 Denied civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal panel-composition procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether a judicial panel's refusal to recuse themselves when they are named parties in the case constitutes a due-process-violation
20-6766 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing haines-v-kerner ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal pro-se-pleadings recusal section-2255 What rights under the Due Process clause do prisoners have during the course of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings?
20-777 In Re Darren Heyman 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment Whether a presiding judge must recuse/disqualify themselves when the judge has active teaching ties with a named-party university
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis…
20-6364 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing statutory-compliance Whether a case must proceed to final judgment with a judge who harbors actual bias against a litigant in order to obtain appellate review of the judge…
20-6119 In Re Nira Woods 2020-10-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal recusal standing superior-court Were Petitioner's Constitutional Rights violated (including the 15+, 5th, and 14th Amendment(s))
20-524 Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process
20-5855 In Re Ruben Orlando Benitez 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority civil-procedure court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent new-evidence recusal standing Whether the Court committed errors therein arising from oversight
20-5830 Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady brady-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims
20-248 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Charles Koch, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether the lower courts deprived the petitioner of due process rights by failing to provide an opportunity to be heard, properly weigh the evidence, …
20-5180 Matthew J. Frawley v. Victoria L. Frawley Missouri 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal missouri-supreme-court-rules parental-rights recusal whether-the-trial-court-judge-should-have-recused-themselves
19-1455 Leigh Ann Youngblood-West v. Aflac Incorporated, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech hush-agreement judicial-recusal prior-restraint rumery standing Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon wome…
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal Whether the trial court judge's, a former prosecutor of appellant's prior criminal trial, refusal to recuse himself and his subsequent judicial partic…
19-8631 Claude Simpson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal personal-bias plea-agreement Is it an abuse of discretion for a judge to not recuse themselves due to personal bias or prejudice?
19-8496 C. K. J. v. M. J. T. Pennsylvania 2020-05-19 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights domestic-relations due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal judicial-review standing Is it lawful for judges to evaluate a judge recusal on themselves?
19-8436 In Re Michael A. Young 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing Whether indigent petitioner's 'gateway factual innocence' showing while being 'constructively' denied appointment of counsel on first and all other ap…
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus…
19-7483 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts
19-7424 Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2020-01-27 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su…
19-7189 Kevin D. Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge abuse his discretion in refusing to recuse himself
19-6974 Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 455(a) is unconstitutionally vague, ambiguous, arbitrary, capricious, and violates due process of law
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-681 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing Whether a Federal Court can deny an attorney admission to the bar for allegedly impugning the integrity of a judge in violation of ABA Model Rule 8.2(…
19-602 Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge …
19-6031 In Re Keith E. Doyle 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-intent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-recusal montana-constitution preliminary-hearing recusal stare-decisis state-constitution unlawful-conviction Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying the right to habeas corpus to challenge an unlawful convicti…
19-5961 Mark Whitehead v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove…
19-5689 Benjamin Oshea Calhoun v. Tony Villa, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-recusal judicial-supervision legal-authority motion-to-dismiss probable-cause standing warrantless-arrest Whether the Appellant court's ruling to uphold the District Court's order which granted defendants' motions to dismiss conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether a Court of Appeals may ignore an appellant's request to recuse itself in an appeal where the Court of Appeals is the only defendant and appell…
18-9669 Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association California 2019-06-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing Whether the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 justices should have recused themselves from the appeal of a judgment against the peti…
18-9569 Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA?
18-9561 In Re Benny Stewart 2019-06-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-procedure due-process due-process,recusal,probable-cause,felony-prosecut felony-prosecution information judge-recusal judicial-bias judicial-recusal probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion recusal state-law Whether the potential for bias and lack of impartiality when a judge makes probable cause determinations and presides over all proceedings in a felony…
18-9517 Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-06-03 Denied Relisted (7)IFP adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure Whether Pope and Isom's significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as t…
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-8836 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP sovereign-immunity-waiver 28-usc-2106 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-process judicial-recusal judicial-review recusal sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Supreme Court may consider the risk of manifest injustice and potential effect on public confidence in the judicial process when an impair…
18-8390 Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime Whether a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a 'victim' of the offense in deciding to sentence a defendan…
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent, its own stare decisis, and create a circuit split by failing to recall its ma…
18-7951 Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial Should a judge recuse themselves from reviewing a motion challenging their rulings made during a bench trial?
18-7752 Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 appointment-of-counsel circuit-panel-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-complexity pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation recusal standing Whether the replacement Circuit Panel repeatedly refused to address/clarify Jurisdiction issues, ultimately denying Petitioner's efforts to resolve a …
18-1007 Assem A. Abulkhair v. Google LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process email-privacy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-recusal law-enforcement-overreach privacy-rights recusal religious-discrimination search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether the District Judge has the authority to dismiss suit while his/her recusal remains pending and his/her disqualification and impartiality comes…
18-990 R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii Whether the dismissal of petitioner's EEOC retaliation claims without allowing for agreed arbitration violates the Federal Arbitration Act or civil ri…
18-7030 S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia 2018-12-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in reversing the lower court's decision in favor of the petitioner
18-732 Jean Coulter v. Blaze Tatananni, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process grand-jury-review impartiality judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal standing vagueness Are Recusal Statutes 28 U.S. Code §455 and §144 Unconstitutionally Vague?
18-6857 Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal?
18-6796 Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing Did the second panel err in denying Muckle's motion to remand or recuse itself due to appearance of impropriety and Canon 8C
18-5396 Calvin McMillan v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-30 Denied IFP appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction Can a state court require a petitioner to establish actual, subjective bias to obtain judicial recusal even though this Court has held that the consti…
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a…
18-5316 Susan Wells Vaughan v. Jennifer Vaughan, et al. North Carolina 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absolute-immunity child-neglect child-neglect-cases-recusal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-initiations judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction troxel-v-granville Whether a judge who regularly participates in unlawful ex parte initiations of child neglect cases should recuse herself from hearing a challenge to t…
18-5020 In Re Lewis Brown 2018-06-28 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error Whether a judge who is named as an adverse party opponent is prohibited from presiding over the proceedings in which he is a defendant, and whether th…
23A1158 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit Presumed Complete canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent Whether a district court judge's recusal order violates constitutional due process standards and binding judicial ethics guidelines