judicial-relief

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A515 Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied constitutional-claims federal-court judicial-relief preliminary-injunction state-officials status-quo Whether a federal court may issue a preliminary injunction against state officials based on a likelihood of success on constitutional claims without a…
24-969 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-11 Pending constitutional-challenge governmental-action judicial-relief officer-replacement presidential-power removal-restriction Whether a party challenging governmental action taken by an individual who remained in office against the President's wishes due to an unconstitutiona…
23-7705 Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-06-13 Denied IFP administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Whether Sohnson's sentence was improperly calculated and should be reduced under the 'safety valve' (18 U.S.C. 3553(f)) sentencing law in effect at th…
23-6446 William Riley Gaul v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-relief jury-instructions jury-verdict logical-inconsistency multiple-count-presentment mutually-exclusive-verdicts powell-v-texas sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a jury's positive finding of guilt in one count of a multiple count presentment is mutually exclusive from its illogical, but positive finding…
22-7845 Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools Eighth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadvertence judicial-relief mistake mistake-of-law rule-60 summary-judgment surprise Whether Petitioner Daniel Coleman Rule 60 is timely under Federal rules of Procedure Rule 60?
22-7383 Carlton Theodore Landis v. David J. Ebbert, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law contract-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction employment-discrimination federal-tort-claims-act judicial-relief scope-of-employment standing statutory-interpretation substitution Can the courts substitute the United States as a defendant in a diversity action brought under Section 1346 of the Federal Tort Claims Act without mak…
22-895 Murphy Creek, LLC, et al. v. Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 Colorado 2023-03-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorneys-fees civil-rights common-nucleus common-nucleus-of-operative-fact judicial-relief prevailing-party section-1983 substantial-claim substantiality Whether the Colorado Courts erred in holding that the Petitioners were not 'prevailing parties' on their 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 claim
22-6896 Kim Lynn Mason v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2023-03-01 Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus judicial-relief jurisdiction state-prisoner void-judgment Whether due process demands that corrective judicial process in the nature of state writ of habeas corpus be available to expunge a void judgment for …
22-6342 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-relief jurisdiction legal-standard mandamus parallel-proceedings prohibition standing Whether the petitioner's requested relief of a writ of mandamus or prohibition was properly denied
21-625 Robert Palmer v. South Carolina South Carolina 2021-10-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process judicial-relief remedies state-liability wrongful-conviction Does the Constitution require South Carolina to provide a remedy for a wrongful conviction?
21-299 Montgomery County, Maryland v. Yasmin Reyazuddin Fourth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-relief legal-standing prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff who obtains no judicial relief is a 'prevailing party' entitled to attorney's fees
20-1770 Xiu Jian Sun v. Northwell Health, et al. New York 2021-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-relief legal-procedure mandamus-petition religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the plaintiff's claims regarding divine revelation and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law
20-5 Richard Blumenthal, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied Amici (5) article-iii judicial-relief legislative-standing raines-v-byrd separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification Do legislators have standing to seek judicial relief when their votes have been 'completely nullified,' Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 823 (1997)?
19-1404 Michael Lieberman v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation What relief is available to a criminal defendant under the All Writs Act?
19-7060 Kent Glen Williams v. Brooks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP due-process first-amendment free-speech rlulpa standing 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim court-order due-process health-screening judicial-relief prisoner-rights religious-freedom standing Was prisoners constitutional and statutory right to petition and religious freedoms violated when the district court dismissed his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ci…
19-6459 Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 5th and 14th Amendment Rig…
19-124 Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentence criminal-sentencing dred-scott due-process emancipation involuntary-servitude judicial-relief thirteenth-amendment Does duly convicted include duly sentenced, and did petitioner's Thirteenth Amendment enslavement end when he discharged from his Thirteenth Amendment…
18-162 Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies Whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index to remedy a constitutional…