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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-506 J. Michael White, et al. v. Lindsay Davis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied compensatory-damages due-process legal-authority punitive-damages reasonable-relationship state-actor Whether a private actor authorized by the state to collect sewer charges, acting on its own choices, constitutes a state actor, and whether a punitive…
23-1136 P. Koichi Yagi, aka Peter Yagi v. Estate of Robert C. Cannon Washington 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process federal-question judicial-precedent legal-authority standing stare-decisis venue venue-selection Whether the lower court erred by ignoring Petitioner's right under Court precedent to original venue
23-5882 Walter Lee Merritte v. Circuit Court of Illinois, LaSalle County Illinois 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-number civil-procedure criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-authority order-validity procedural-challenge standing trial-court Whether the state trial court's October 29, 1990 order was issued without authority and is void for want of jurisdiction?
22-7091 David Lee Hering v. Iowa Iowa 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the start …
21-6213 Rosemary I. Mergenthaler v. R. Kenneth Barnard Third Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct justice legal-authority Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit criminally abuse and/or exceed its legal authority
20-5937 Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th…
20-5838 Daryl Dude Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied IFP circuit-court-review district-court due-process ex-parte-proceeding fact-finding fraud-on-the-court judicial-oversight legal-authority prosecutor prosecutorial-fraud relief-from-judgment Did the Circuit Court commit a reversible error and grossly violate petitioner's Due Process when it (1) overlooked the district court's fact-finding …
20-5288 Eugene Peter Schuler v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied IFP bad-faith contract-law extrinsic-fraud fraud intentional-omission legal-authority omission statute-of-limitations voidable-agreement Where contract law identifies that an agreement can be signed under bad faith and made voidable by either extrinsic fraud or an intentional omission o…
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…
18-1231 Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. New York 2019-03-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation Issue being raised
18-1191 Carter Davenport v. Estate of Marquette F. Cummings, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights davis-v-scherer due-process legal-authority money-damages qualified-immunity standing state-law state-law-authority state-official takings Whether a state official's qualified immunity defense to a claim for money damages necessarily fails if he cannot first prove that he had authority un…
18-7152 Yosnel Bonet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18-7125 Refaat F. Abul Hosn v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admitted-mistakes authority authority-regulation breach-of-contract civil-rights contract diplomatic-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities fsia immunity international-law iraq-invasion legal-authority political-doctrine regulatory-compliance Was the immunity under the FSIA affected when the invasion of Iraq occurred?