judicial-sanctions
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6717 | Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. | Washington | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-limits due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigation | Whether a state appellate court violates due process by proceeding to decide an appeal and impose sanctions after a litigant files a federal lawsuit a… |
| 25-808 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure | Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding 'bad faith' and whether they can issue s… |
| 25A774 | Raymond E. Butler v. Eli Eddi, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Application | appellate-review attorney-advocacy disqualification-motion due-process first-amendment judicial-sanctions | Whether the First Amendment and due process protections prohibit a federal appellate court from imposing sanctions on an attorney for zealous advocacy… | |
| 25-6394 | Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda | New Jersey | 2025-12-17 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment | Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations and whether judicial sanctions require due process and a jury under th… |
| 24A772 | Samuel Pfeiffer v. Mid-Town Development Limited Partnership, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-mandate circuit-court-procedure due-process frivolous-argument judicial-sanctions right-to-be-heard | Whether a federal appellate court can issue a mandate and sanctions based on an alleged frivolous argument that the party claims was never made, poten… | |
| 24-791 | Barry J. Byrnes v. Sylvia Marie Byrnes | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-review eighth-amendment judicial-sanctions jury-trial-right | Did the bankruptcy judge enter an illegal judgment and violate Petitioner's right to a jury trial in district court on the tort claims? |
| 24-385 | Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees canon-of-judicial-conduct fair-housing-act fraud-allegations judicial-sanctions procedural-errors | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in imposing sanctions without demonstrating frivolous claims and in denying motions to investigate alleged fraud in… |
| 24A328 | Good Lawgic, LLC, et al. v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County | New York | 2024-10-04 | Presumed Complete | first-amendment judicial-sanctions legal-ethics media-litigation professional-responsibility trial-court-conduct | Whether a state court can impose sanctions or restrict legal practice based on litigation conduct in a high-profile criminal case involving a media co… | |
| 23-1237 | County of Fulton, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | article-i-section-4 constitutional-authority county-boards-of-elections due-process election-integrity election-law elections judicial-sanctions pennsylvania-general-assembly pennsylvania-supreme-court voting-equipment voting-machines | Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in allowing a special master to order voting machines owned by the County of Fulton to be placed in custody of … |
| 23A425 | Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation | Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of vexatious legal actions can constitute an abuse of judicial process warranting sanctions | |
| 23A68 | Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Presumed Complete | attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint | Whether sanctions imposed by a federal district court against an attorney for criticism of judicial conduct violate the First Amendment and Due Proces… | |
| 23-40 | Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence | Should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evidence when there are less severe sanctions availab… |
| 21-524 | Schlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York | Connecticut | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment civil-procedure discovery due-process foreclosure judicial-sanctions mortgage-law notice property-rights sanctions | Whether granting sanctions without adequate notice and opportunity to be heard violates due process |
| 20-1600 | Sae Han Sheet Co., Ltd. v. Eastman Performance Films, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-courts civil-procedure contract-action dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-sanctions legal-procedure sanctions warnings | Whether lower courts must refrain from using the sanction of dismissal unless egregious conduct justifying dismissal is committed in the face of direc… |
| 20-6491 | In Re Mario Allan Montano | 2020-12-01 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process fee-waiver filing-injunction judicial-sanctions jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits michigan-supreme-court sanctions | Did the Michigan Supreme Court fail to rule on the Petitioner's motions to waive fees and issue orders dismissing uncontested cases without jurisdicti… | |
| 19-1433 | Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. | Utah | 2020-06-29 | Denied | 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change | Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat… | |
| 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 … |
| 18-9249 | Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit-rules answering-brief appellate-procedure brief-filing civil-procedure deadlines judicial-sanctions motion-for-sanctions notification pro-se-litigation procedural-deadlines sanctions | Whether the 9th Circuit erred in denying Plaintiff-Appellant's motion for sanctions against Defendant-Appellee for failure to file an answering brief … |
| 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 … |
| 18-1091 | Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. | Third Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions | Dismissal of petitioner's employment discrimination lawsuit as a sanction without prior court finding or warning of discovery violation |