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25A449 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2025-10-17 Application appellate-procedure criminal-procedure indiana-supreme-court legal-standards post-conviction-relief retroactive-law Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly applied retroactive legal standards in denying a post-conviction relief petition by failing to adhere …
24-7485 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida 2025-06-25 Denied IFP court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-access legal-standards pro-se-litigation Do the courts in Florida deny due process, equal protection, and meaningful access to courts for pro se, non-prisoner litigants?
24-7484 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida 2025-06-25 Denied IFP court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standards pro-se-litigation Do the courts in Florida deny due process, equal protection, and meaningful access to the courts for pro se, non-prisoner litigants?
24-6819 Kenneth Daywitt, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, in her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-standards first-amendment free-speech judicial-duty legal-standards Do federal courts have a duty to citizens of the United States of America to apply established legal standards related to First Amendment claims?
24-6054 Joshua Matthew Stockton v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-interpretation legal-standards procedural-challenge supreme-court Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's decision regarding a civil matter involving procedu…
24A263 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction legal-standards supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal court of appeals improperly deviated from established legal standards in a manner that could create a circuit split warranting Supre…
24-5253 Rafael Arden Jones v. Ned McCormack Second Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation legal-standards municipal-association Whether the Appellate Division's decision improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's determination of civil rights violations rel…
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-7642 John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Is McCarthy V United States, Ex Parte Milligan, Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, Oregon v Hass, Vitak v. Jones still good law
23-7640 Devin Fischer v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-06-05 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-standards Is a defendant denied due process when the court ignores legal standards and relies solely on their discretion?
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine Question not identified
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-6457 Peter Grigg v. Barbara Benson Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standards standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses were violated
23-563 Obaida Abdulky, et al., as Parents and Next Friends of Anthony Abdulky v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. Massachusetts 2023-11-27 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review legal-standards notice procedural-fairness Whether the Appeals Court of Massachusetts violated the due process rights of the Petitioners
23A456 Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction legal-standards mandamus pro-se time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief when…
23-5745 Zephryn (Stephanie) Hammond v. University of Vermont Medical Center Vermont 2023-10-10 Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting employment-discrimination legal-standards mcdonnell-douglas-framework protected-characteristics retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Under what circumstances should an employer's response to an employee's complaint about a protected characteristic warrant documentation, investigatio…
23-181 Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal district-court-discretion federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standards rule-11-sanctions sanctions settlement sua-sponte-sanctions Did the district court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Petitioner sua sponte pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 11 after settlement…
23-176 Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowing t…
23-5217 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine Maine 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute Can a judge in a child protective custody case base a decision solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, then set bail/bond condition…
23-5052 Richie A. Stokes, Jr. v. New York New York 2023-07-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion jury-tampering legal-standards prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial Whether the district court erred in dismissing the indictment against the defendant
23-15 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the trademark-infringement issue was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and the leg…
22-7867 Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards Whether Poli biouee's Doe Peseoes Ricits Waser uiolated, When Ig tounge was not Present al TaCameva Wearing which Was conducted Lo assess the validity…
22-7849 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure damages due-process free-speech judicial-discretion legal-standards religious-claims standing state-court-review Whether the regional ombudsman and the officials of the Common Cause Task Force violated the Petitioner's First Amendment rights under the U.S. Consti…
22-780 Scott Meide, et al. v. Noah Centineo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review brief-requirements civil-rights court-obligations due-process judicial-discretion judicial-independence judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law separation-of-powers Do we have a government of laws and not of men?
22-6760 David Lassegue v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals case-law-analysis circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standards precedent procedural-rights standing third-circuit-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Violated Lassegue's rights
22-6696 Rudy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2023-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standards precedent prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas claim conflict with their previous decision of a similar claim?
22-218 Steven Christopher Knapp v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-standards rule-8 standing Does a judge have an unqualified right to nullify a complaint based on length alone?
22-5375 Nathaniel Waugh v. A. Ralph, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-principles court-procedure due-process evidence-application judicial-review legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice standing Whether lower Court proceeded 'according to Justice' or deprived petitioner of fundamental Substantial rights?
22-5171 Rebekah Werth v. Stuart Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff legal-standards pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal Do the sua sponte dismissals by the lower courts under the in forma pauperis statute 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) (2) (B), in which the reviewing court merely…
22-5056 Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing Whether the respondent properly sought publicity when dismissed without a full record, although requested, and whether the respondent's right to discl…
22-5014 Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing Whether the District Court for the District of South Carolina erred in dismissing the case on the ground that the petitioners lacked standing to chall…
21-7947 Cedric Greene v. Harbor Police, et al. California 2022-05-24 Denied IFP amendment-interpretation case-records civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity legal-standards punitive-damages rights-protection standing vexatious-litigant Whether the petitioner was wrongfully identified as a vexatious litigant in the Court of Appeals case
21-6764 In Re Eric Denorris Kennedy 2022-01-05 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-rule civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-issues legal-standards procedural-rights standing Whether the petitioner's successive habeas corpus petition should be granted
21-6515 Chadd A. Morris v. Jerry Worley, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-misconduct legal-standards precedential-law procedural-error property-rights standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
21-55 Genet McCann v. Ward E. Taleff, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-integrity due-process fraud judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-standards ninth-circuit rule-11 rule-of-law standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit's departure from the settled course of antecedent principles warrants this Court's supervisory power to reverse and preserve…
20-1710 Zafar Bakhramovich Yadigarov v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-writ appellate-procedure coram-nobis delay due-process judicial-discretion legal-diligence legal-standards procedural-standard sound-reasons writ-of-error What constitutes a legally sufficient standard of diligence for pursuing coram-nobis-relief
20-7046 Paul A. Bilzerian v. Securities Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-in-circumstances civil-procedure court-access equitable-relief judicial-discretion legal-standards motion-to-terminate permanent-injunction rule-65 standing Whether a district court has the discretion to deny an unopposed motion to terminate a 20-year-old permanent injunction prohibiting access to any stat…
20-822 Solon Phillips v. Maryland Board of Law Examiners, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived bar-admission character-and-fitness character-fitness-test constitutional-vagueness due-process legal-standards moral-character opportunity-to-be-heard unexplained-delay vagueness Is the Maryland character fitness test unconstitutionally vague?
20-5745 Bradley William Monical v. Christina Towers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-employees governmental-powers judicial-review legal-standards park-county-orders qualified-immunity statutory-provisions Whether government employees' aid in violating clearly established park county orders and administrative law amounts to a due process violation
20-5369 Don Farmer v. Bernard Booker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause court-procedure crawford-vs-washington due-process evidence-testimonial ineffective-assistance legal-standards professional-norms sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence verbal-testimony witness-testimony Whether the evidence supplied through verbal testimony of a witness is considered testimonial
20-5014 Darwin Josue Peralta v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence jury-instructions legal-standards right-to-present-defense standard-of-review Whether the trial court erred and violated Mr. Pecoraro's rights to present a complete defense by prohibiting him from introducing Doris Murillo's and…
19-8584 Christopher Raynard Kidd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense due-process evidence-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation legal-standards prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to review all the evidence with Mr. Kidd prior to trial?
19-1202 Thomas Taffe, et al. v. First National Bank of Alaska Alaska 2020-04-08 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial legal-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment systemic-bias Did a systemic bias against pro se litigants lead to the unconstitutional denial of Petitioners' right to a jury trial in this case?
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-04 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud Whether the relaxed pleading standard for claims where evidence lies within the defendant's exclusive possession applies to claims under Section 10(b)…
19-7875 Byron Gay v. Scott Daffenbach, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure dna-testing evidence evidentiary-rules judicial-admission judicial-admissions legal-standards scientific-evidence standards Question not identified.
19-7871 In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson 2020-03-04 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing Whether the jurisdictional requirements under 28 USC §§ 1331, 1332, 1343, 1367, 2072, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were met, and whether t…
19-7511 Frank Deville, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2020-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure concealing-material-facts conflict-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fraud-particularity hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure legal-standards liberal-amendment material-facts standing What is the liberal ability to amend a complaint?
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
19-6102 Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should grant petitioner's certificate of appealability pursuant to Miller v. Cockrell, 537 U.S…
19-306 Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky First Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts sitting in diversity should exercise their discretion to certify questions to state high courts when a state's courts are silen…
19-5442 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Kenner Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process evidentiary-requirements fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-trial legal-standards standing trial-procedure What if district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this great …
19-2 Jackie Hosang Lawson v. FMR LLC, dba Fidelity Investments, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness-testimony federal-securities-law federal-securities-laws fraud fraud-allegations jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standards sarbanes-oxley-act securities Is the jury verdict just and proper on the two deciding questions where the jury was not made aware of what constitutes violation of Federal law relat…
18-9401 Daniel H. Jones v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-findings injunctive-relief judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review legal-standards procedural-error sovereign-immunity wrong-legal-standards Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in allowing the District Court to abuse its discretion
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California
18-7626 Gregory Haynes v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice second-degree-murder self-defense trial-court-error Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial
18-7551 Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining the existence of a valid contract under state law
18-6643 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision Whether the state court decision is contrary to federal law based on the principle of an independent, fair, and competent judiciary
18-6020 Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure consideration due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-standards rule-10 standing supreme-court-procedure tribunal-fairness tribunals Did each of the tribunals rule fairly within the Consideration of Rule 10 (a), (b), (c) of the Supreme Court?
18-250 Tu Ying Chen v. Suffolk County Community College, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights court-judgment defendant-actions due-process evidence false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-review legal-standards misconduct plaintiff-claims standing wrongful-probation wrongful-termination Was there misconduct by and false evidence submitted by the Defendants?
18-5737 Richard Delain Kyles v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP circuit-principle discretionary-rules due-process ex-post-facto judicial-review legal-standards parole parole-board-policy parole-eligibility parole-suitability retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err in applying a 'Fifth Circuit Principle' that discretionary parole rules do not violate ex post facto clause