| 25-6673 |
James R. Caputo v. Richard S. Tubiolo, et al. |
New York |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship legal-malpractice negligence-standard pleading-amendment professional-medical-conduct summary-judgment |
Whether a medical professional can establish legal malpractice when attorneys allegedly failed to timely respond to professional misconduct charges |
| 25-6632 |
Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
IFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action |
Whether a plaintiff can sue his former attorney under the color of state law for actions during a civil commitment trial |
| 25A796 |
James L. Martin v. Bruce L. Hudson, et al. |
Delaware |
2026-01-09 |
Application |
|
conditional-payment health-insurance-recovery legal-malpractice medical-expert-testimony medicare-subrogation personal-injury |
Whether Medicare's subrogation claim can be enforced when medical expert testimony linking treatment to an underlying injury was improperly excluded b… |
| 25-101 |
J. M. F. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant effective-counsel legal-malpractice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the threat of a civil action by a criminal defendant against his attorney is a per se denial of the right to effective counsel guaranteed by t… |
| 25A61 |
Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones |
Virginia |
2025-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari |
Whether an attorney's breach of professional duties and failure to file a writ of certiorari constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel warranting … |
| 24-1208 |
Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case meets the substantiality threshold for federal question jurisdiction under … |
| 24-1012 |
Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Martin J. O’Leary, et al. |
Montana |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
|
choice-of-law legal-malpractice multi-jurisdictional-practice personal-jurisdiction professional-liability specific-jurisdiction |
Is a lawyer with a multi-jurisdictional law practice subject to specific personal jurisdiction for a legal malpractice claim in a state where the lawy… |
| 24-593 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights legal-malpractice separation-of-powers treason |
Whether the Court can uphold constitutional rights in student loan bankruptcy matters while addressing potential separation of powers concerns |
| 24-5323 |
Muhidin Salad Omar v. John C. Gardner |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights criminal-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice |
Question not identified. |
| 24-8 |
John Meyer v. John Pellegrin |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
attorney-liability breach-of-contract civil-procedure criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney exoneration legal-malpractice post-conviction-relief |
Whether a criminal defense lawyer should be held responsible for his actions and inactions even if his client is guilty of a lesser offense |
| 23-7178 |
Shawn Titus v. Donald L. Schense |
Nebraska |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment appellate-process due-process equal-access expert-affidavit legal-malpractice seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Could the trial court deprive petitioner of his 7th Amendment right to a trial by granting summary judgment based solely upon the defendant-expert's c… |
| 23-815 |
Laurie Ann McRay, et al. v. Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath PLLC |
Texas |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees counterclaims due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics legal-malpractice prosecutorial-fees substitute-counsel summary-judgment trial-procedure |
When a law firm sues its own clients, are the clients' Due Process rights violated? |
| 23-516 |
Michael D. Smith v. Derek Gordon, et al. |
Kentucky |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment immunity legal-immunity legal-malpractice prisoner-rights standing |
Will this court let stand as Kentucky courts have ruled that lawyers in a criminal case have the same immunity as judges and prosecutors and cannot be… |
| 23-5681 |
Justin Weible v. Kevin Provost, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arbitrary-or-capricious civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-malpractice license-revocation procedural-due-process unlawful-procedure |
Question not identified |
| 23-86 |
Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation |
Whether HBH's concealment of its family relationship with the adverse party violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to freely associate and ma… |
| 23-5215 |
Aisha Wright v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-rules financial-gain judicial-misconduct legal-malpractice oath-of-office summary-judgment |
Whether the lower court abused its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's case despite newly discovered evidence of judicial misconduct, violations… |
| 22-7789 |
Douglas Manning v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-merits civil-rights defendant-justification due-process harmful-consequences ineffective-assistance legal-excuses legal-malpractice plaintiff-claims procedural-grounds professional-responsibility standing |
Was the defendant's representation so deficient that the plaintiff should be held responsible for it? |
| 22-7719 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. |
Nebraska |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing |
Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve… |
| 22-1040 |
William Carlson, et al. v. Thomas Cronin, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
|
due-process full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure legal-malpractice sham-proceeding statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose |
Whether Carlson's constitutional right to due process and constitutional right to receive full faith and credit of a final judgment was violated |
| 22-6958 |
Thomas Powers v. David Doll, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-03-08 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-detainee civil-rights due-process illinois-supreme-court legal-malpractice sexual-violent-person-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether a pre-trial detainee has a right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty |
| 22-6795 |
Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal |
Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to file a notice of appeal when requested |
| 22-6298 |
Antoinne Lee Washington v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-of-action equitable-tolling failure-to-state-a-claim habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings heck-doctrine legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations |
May a legal malpractice cause of action be dismissed for a failure to state a claim, in pursuant to the 'Heck Doctrine' (Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 47… |
| 22-482 |
Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., et al. v. Janet Yijuan Fou |
New Jersey |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
attorney-fees causation causation-damages constitutional-rights damages due-process jury-award legal-malpractice |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated |
| 22-5257 |
Daryl Stephen v. New York |
New York |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-conduct attorney-misconduct civil-procedure damages legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-responsibility professional-standards standing tort-law |
Whether the petitioner's attorney committed legal malpractice by contravening the law |
| 21-7893 |
Paul Mueller v. Bert Parnall |
New Mexico |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights discovery-rule due-process legal-malpractice section-1981 statute-of-limitations |
Whether the statute of limitations on a legal malpractice claim can begin before any cognizable damages occur |
| 21-1309 |
Wendy Meigs v. Todd Zucker, et al. |
Texas |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations court-bias court-corruption due-process due-process-rights judicial-system-accountability legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-discrimination |
Does this Country contribute to Court Bias, Violations of Due Process and Constitutional Rights, and Discrimination in courts by consciously ignoring … |
| 21-7181 |
Mary Ellen Samuels v. Janel Espinoza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-supreme-court conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice performance prejudice prejudice-presumption supreme-court-precedent |
Did the California Supreme Court unreasonably fail to apply clearly established Supreme Court precedent that requires prejudice to be presumed where a… |
| 21-7075 |
Ian T. Cooke v. John R. Williams, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-plaintiffs favorable-termination heck-bar heck-v-humphrey justiciability legal-malpractice tort-action tort-actions |
Does the justiciability bar articulated by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) requiring criminal plaintiffs to favorably terminate their conviction… |
| 21-565 |
Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
|
contract-location contractual-obligations damages damages-jurisdiction judicial-bias legal-malpractice out-of-state-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction representation-agreement |
Whether an out-of-state law firm is subject to specific in-personam jurisdiction in the client's home state, where the client signed the representatio… |
| 21-452 |
Falisha Bell v. Scott Wagner & Associates |
Florida |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
answer-brief civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations timely-filing |
After filing case within the lower court and being dealt unfairly |
| 21-263 |
Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. |
Arkansas |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing |
Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time |
| 21-239 |
Daniel Loring v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-misconduct legal-malpractice obstruction-of-justice public-record |
Whether Petitioners' filing was improperly removed and deleted from the public record |
| 20-6295 |
Donna Raively v. Thomas A. Whelihan |
New Jersey |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
attorney-ethics attorney-misconduct case-conflict civil-procedure client-representation client-trust fiduciary-duty legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-misconduct standing |
Whether an attorney is held to a certain standard of fiduciary-duty,attorney-misconduct,client-trust,legal-ethics,civil-procedure,standing |
| 19-8609 |
Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights damages declarative-relief district-court due-process injunctive-relief legal-malpractice standing unconstitutional-judgment void-judgments |
Whether District Court's Characterisation of a suit seeking injunctive, declarative relief and damages against making of Unconstitutional and Void Jud… |
| 19-1312 |
Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's 'Unfettered Discretion' standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' 'Rational Basis Test' s… |
| 19-1205 |
Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents and judgments in this case within a cas… |
| 19-1144 |
Michael McCarron v. DeCarlo & Shanley, P.C. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty labor-law labor-union legal-advice legal-malpractice preemption professional-misconduct standing state-law-claims |
Does ERISA preempt state law claims against a law firm for providing improper legal advice to a labor union official? |
| 19-7405 |
Francienna B. Grant v. Marshall L. Williams |
New Jersey |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights damages-denial due-process evidence ex-parte-evidence judicial-fairness legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether a Pro Se litigant can prevail in a Legal malpractice case on liability after having suffered damages and be denied damages incurred |
| 19-918 |
Anthony J. Lucero v. James R. Koncilja, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice motion-for-default-judgment res-judicata state-action |
Did Respondents violate Petitioner's 14th-amendment-due-process rights |
| 19-888 |
Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP |
New York |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination legal-malpractice motion-to-appeal prima-facie procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte |
Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner's Motion for Leave to Appeal |
| 19-7216 |
Daniel A. Ramet v. Robert LeGrande, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper legal-malpractice plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
If a defense attorney advises a client to reject a favorable plea offer based on a grave miscalculation about the viability of a legal defense, has th… |
| 19-716 |
Zhi Gang Zhang v. Dan Rasmus, et al. |
South Dakota |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attorney-fraud attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fraud legal-malpractice |
Whether differences in the acquittal process between fraud committed by an attorney and fraud committed by a non-attorney in some but not all federal … |
| 19-6112 |
In Re Larry Pouncy |
|
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's state law claims against the defendants for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary dut… |
| 19-5914 |
Lena Lasher v. Roger Stavis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence best-evidence-rule civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-defense due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-malpractice |
Should a civil action be granted to correct the District Court's error in misrepresenting a precedent? |
| 19-5700 |
Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment |
Whether Garza v. Idaho, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), applies to petitioner's claim that his defense counsel was ineffective by failing to file a notice of a… |
| 19-240 |
Noah Thomas Ballard v. Vicky Lynn Ballard |
Tennessee |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-malpractice attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights damages divorce-decree due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-malpractice punitive-damages standing supreme-court-review |
Can the No. 2016DV97 decree be overruled and $77K awarded to the petitioner? |
| 19-5662 |
Carter Stephens v. Marcelo Britto Gomez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process henderson-factors judicial-intervention legal-ethics legal-malpractice sanctions standing state-bar state-bar-regulation |
Why was plaintiff Carter Stephens not informed by the State Bar of the neglectful attorney's record he retained? |
| 19-5437 |
Ekaterini Alexopoulos v. Steven Goldsmith, P.A., et al. |
Florida |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court-error duty-to-control duty-to-control-third-person ethics-violation expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence legal-malpractice rule-702 special-relation standard-of-care |
Whether the District Court erred in disallowing plaintiff's expert witness testimony regarding ethics violations and its irrelevance to this case whic… |
| 19-5163 |
Michael A. Kelley, Jr. v. Phillip W. Gerth |
Ohio |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
Whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpractice is dependent upon the filing of motion to withd… |
| 18-8193 |
Ada Albors Gonzalez v. William M. Stern, et al. |
Florida |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fla-r-civ-p-1-540b legal-malpractice procedural-rights sovereign-powers statute-of-limitations void-or-voidable-orders void-orders |
Whether the State of Florida court abused its discretion |
| 18-1087 |
Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se |
Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could find… |
| 18-7937 |
Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claim of actual conflict of interest due to trial counsel's dementia, which resulted in ineffe… |
| 18-7908 |
Twila Haynes v. Walmart, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment standing |
Whether an in forma pauperis (IFP) status granted by one district court is transferable to another district court |
| 18-1036 |
Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
|
60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment |
Whether a lawyer's gross neglect of a blameless client's case is grounds for relief under Rule 60(b)(6) |
| 18-1005 |
Eileen L. Zell v. Katherine M. Klingelhafer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure court-misconduct cover-up due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice perjury political-influence settlement-conference |
Whether the actions of the district and appellate courts violated due process by allowing perjury, denying motions, and covering up misconduct by a pr… |
| 18-6743 |
Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Is the Rooker-Feldman doctrine constitutional when it fails to protect individual rights under the Constitution and the purpose of the U.S. Supreme Co… |
| 18-6383 |
Robert J. Kulick v. Steven Rein |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada-accommodation attorney-client attorney-client-rights civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice legal-representation pro-per-status pro-se standing state-bar-bias |
Why the CA State Bar denied an investigation against Steven Rein, Esq. for his blackmail against me, & why attorneys allowed to be relieved as an atto… |
| 18-5677 |
Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,du ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice negligence prejudice trial-outcome trial-procedure |
Whether the state court erred in denying petitioner's writ of habeas corpus alleging ineffective-assistance-of-counsel where petitioner's attorney was… |