jurisdictional-defect

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6800 In Re Felix Verdejo-Sanchez 2026-02-12 Pending IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-error due-process jurisdictional-defect mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court of appeals may continue adjudicating the merits of a criminal appeal without first verifying subject-matter jurisdiction when …
25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Pending constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise meritorious claims and syste…
25-6485 Michelle Renee Morton v. Iowa Iowa 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-proceedings due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-defect structural-error void-ab-initio Whether a conviction initiated by a warrant issued by a magistrate who is later adjudicated constitutes a structural jurisdictional defect rendering t…
25-6443 Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee Connecticut 2025-12-30 Pending IFP appellate-review due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-defect recusal standing Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate ma…
25-6372 Andre Belous v. City of Battle Creek, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-defect loper-bright municipal-officer oath-of-office Whether a state court judgment is void when initiated by a municipal officer who never filed the constitutionally required oath of office, and whether…
25-6228 James Anthony Hale v. Michigan Michigan 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-defect right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Where a criminal defendant is denied counsel during initial arraignment, does a jurisdictional defect invalidate subsequent criminal proceedings?
25A503 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2025-11-03 Application due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure Whether a state court judge's secret, unilateral appointment of a successor judge without public record or independent oversight violates the Due Proc…
25-508 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect Whether due process is violated when state courts rely on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent allegations previously adjudicated as lacking…
25A408 In Re Gregory Alvin James Van Etten First Circuit 2025-10-08 Application constitutional-injury due-process federal-review jurisdictional-defect service-of-process void-judgment Whether a federal court may refuse enforcement of state court orders entered without valid service of process and in violation of due process protecti…
25A380 William Scott v. Howard Hanna Third Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-defect mandatory-deadline notice-of-appeal time-limit Whether the federal appellate courts properly dismissed an appeal for untimely filing under the mandatory 30-day notice of appeal deadline
25A325 Delmart Edward Vreeland v. Colorado Colorado 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari-petition due-process extraordinary-circumstances illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect Whether a state court's untimely and potentially jurisdictionally defective modification of a previously acknowledged illegal sentence violates a crim…
25-5574 In Re Paul Patrick Jolivette 2025-09-08 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-defect magistrate-judge-authority Did the United States Magistrate Judge Dennis M. Cota abuse and usurp his authority and jurisdiction when he denied Petitioner's Motion to Disqualify …
25-5548 Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP AEDPA due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect state-prisoner Whether the Federal Courts have correctly applied habeas restrictions introduced by the AEDPA to state prisoners' ARCVP Rule 60(b)(4) Motion based on …
25-5449 John Todd Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three due-process judicial-designation jurisdictional-defect separation-of-powers structural-error Whether a federal judge elevated to an appellate court can lawfully preside over district court proceedings without proper statutory designation
25-130 Francis McLain v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction indictment-elements jurisdictional-defect jury-instructions rule-60b4 trust-fund-penalty Whether a district court can deny a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a criminal conviction based on jurisdictional defects or incomplete indictment/jury…
24-7235 Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan Michigan 2025-05-16 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect Did the district court commit a jurisdictional defect by not following Michigan's law and standards, and did the court of appeals and magistrate judge…
24-6639 Mario Ayala Alfaro v. California California 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law-infant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jurisdictional-defect mens-rea Whether punishing a common-law infant without requisite knowledge and mens rea violates the Eighth Amendment and due process rights when the defendant…
23-6351 Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal
23-5738 Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fair-procedure judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect procedural-fairness res-judicata rule-60b4 subject-matter-jurisdiction usurpation-of-power Whether factors of correct administration of the rules and fair procedure to allow a party an opportunity to litigate the question of jurisdiction mus…
23-5232 In Re Marcus Antone Peterson 2023-07-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-imprisonment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect mandamus mandamus-relief sentencing Can the lower court's lack of jurisdiction and failure to properly arraign the defendant warrant immediate release?
23-5009 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete
22-7004 Amit Khanna, et ux. v. Westport Village at Irongate Community Association California 2023-03-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hoa-declaration-bylaws home-owners-association jurisdictional-defect procedural-irregularity standing unauthorized-counsel vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation Whether a case without a plaintiff may proceed against persons mis-alleged to be defendants
22-833 John E. Reardon v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equity-relief judicial-immunity jurisdictional-defect legal-recourse mandamus ministerial-acts standing Whether the lower courts have abused their authority by refusing to comply with this court's mandates and findings of liability, thereby denying the p…
22-6392 Adam Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence must be noticed, heard, adjudicated and legally corrected at any time, whether on appeal or any other moti…
22-5865 Charles Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal
22-5708 David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent Lack-of-standing-is-a-jurisdictional-defect
22-5604 John Gregory Lambros v. Federative Republic of Brazil, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-19 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-state foreign-state-defendant jurisdictional-defect motion-to-remand remand removal removal-procedure service-of-process timeliness Whether an untimely 'Motion for Removal' by a foreign state suffices when the non-jurisdictional procedural removal defect is timely raised
21-7819 Kevin Ray Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect Whether Petitioner has Article III standing to challenge conduct not within the precise subject matter of nationwide Federal police power enforcement
21-7486 Eric Jamar Goodall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-error waiver waiver-doctrine Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Goodall's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is no …
21-1097 Vinod Kumar Dahiya v. Neptune Shipmanagement Services, PTE, Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied arbitration-agreement compelled-arbitration foreign-arbitration foreign-award interlocutory-order judicial-review jurisdictional-defect new-york-convention preclusive-effect Can a foreign arbitration award be enforced pursuant to the Convention (9 USC 207) where the arbitration agreement does not meet the Convention's defi…
21-899 Lauren Rosecan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response Waived collateral-order-doctrine criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process felony grand-jury grand-jury-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-defect pretrial-motion Whether the denial of a pretrial motion to dismiss a criminal information that charges, in violation of the Grand Jury Clause, felony offenses without…
20-8195 Calvin James Reid v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-02 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-defect legal-remedy retroactivity state-court-conviction statute-of-limitations time-limitation Whether a 30-year-old jurisdictional defect in state court conviction should stand uncorrected because the violation occurred over 30 years ago?
20-5881 Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa…
20-338 Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the district court have subject matter jurisdiction over this case?
20-5529 Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied IFP aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred in denying a motion to amend a petition under the AEDPA, as the Eleventh Circuit has required that a motion to amen…
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute?
19-5661 David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing Whether there exist a conflict between the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in this case and the unanimous decisio…
19-5519 Rubin R. Weeks v. Jason Lewis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect liberty-interest parole-revocation state-court-review state-jurisdiction void-judgment Does Petitioner have the Fundamental Rights to be free from the Missouri State Court's void judgment that has him restrained of liberty?
18-9468 Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's nunc pro tunc judgment cures a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, and whether the first federal habeas…
18-9376 Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by their failure to address the jurisdictional defects that deprive them of subject-matter-jurisdicti…
18-8638 Michael Bennefield v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair?
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Are the sentencing proceedings that were found to be unconstitutional made to be invalid?
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional Rights) by f…
18-6964 Henry L. Wallace v. United States District of Columbia 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether a jurisdiction defective indictment can be procedurally or time bar adjudication
18-6535 Rodney Williams v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment-violation jurisdictional-defect jury-trial-rights restitution right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment-right void-judgment void-restitution-order void-sentence Was defendant denied his constitutional right to counsel at his sentencing and restitution hearing; constituting a void sentence and restitution order…
18-264 New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k…
18-5368 Gabriel Werdene v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd…
18-5202 Samuel Knowles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect Question not identified