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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A894 George Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Application appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency Question not identified.
22-6679 Debra Sauer v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-dismissal legal-claims ninth-circuit patent standing takings Whether the Aveand and the Ut Cieecit decisions conflict with the Circuit decision which dismissed my case?
22-5148 Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process equal-protection legal-claims separation-of-powers standing Whether the Florida Department of Corrections is allowed to choose not to enforce the law as the Department sees fit, in violation of the Separation o…
21-7766 Jacory Brown v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claims prima-facie-case sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington When does a showing under Strickland v. Washington establish a prima facie case of ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment?
21-7494 David Samuels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals crime-of-violence district-court due-process fraud habeas-corpus legal-claims standing Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealability
21-89 Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC Sixth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
19-8530 Sacorey L. Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process government-duty government-liability judicial-remand legal-claims rehaif rehaif-precedent remand sentencing sentencing-review Whether CLARK's Affirmed Sentence & Judgment Must be Vacated in light of REHAIF, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), Then Remanded, Where it is Warranted that CLAR…
19-490 Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. Connecticut 2019-10-15 Denied adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings?
18-9489 Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-process legal-claims procedural-rules remand standing supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari Why the Honorable United States District Court ordered the case closed without granting a 30-day order to amend the complaint
18-9072 Dewey Lee McBride v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights direct-review due-process judicial-bias legal-claims ninth-circuit standing unbiased-judge Whether Mr. McBride's direct review continued until his claims were decided by an unbiased judge
18-1169 John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law Applicability of laches to legal claims within statute of limitations period