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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 …
25-6783 Ronald Gerard Boyajian v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP appellate-procedure circuit-uniformity en-banc-review judicial-review mandamus shadow-docket Whether a three-judge panel may usurp the authority of the full court of appeals by intercepting and terminating a petition for a writ of mandamus, th…
25-942 In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. 2026-02-09 Pending congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed challenging…
25-6696 Evelyn R. Benton v. Berkshire Richmond LLC Fourth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review mandamus record-review summary-affirmance Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by issuing a summary affirmance without receiving the origi…
25-892 Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived court-of-appeals judicial-procedure mandamus petition-for-rehearing procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules Whether a court of appeals may refuse to accept a timely petition for panel rehearing by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, contrary to …
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court to vacate a fraudulent foreclosure judgment issued without trial and…
25-6604 In Re Angeliina L. Lawson 2026-01-16 Pending IFP ada-retaliation civil-rights judicial-bias mandamus pro-se rico Whether the Supreme Court should issue a writ of mandamus to correct the Tenth Circuit's denial of emergency relief for a pro se litigant facing proce…
25-768 Charity Mainville v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending circuit-court extraordinary-writ judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus procedural-standard Whether the Fourth Circuit may impose 'undue delay' as a standalone prerequisite to mandamus relief and categorically deny mandamus as a 'substitute f…
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the right…
25-6398 Loni Nicole Granger, et al. v. Lauren J. King, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mandamus ninth-circuit random-assignment Whether the Ninth Circuit violated petitioners' Fifth Amendment due-process rights by summarily denying in-forma-pauperis status and dismissing appeal…
25-6159 In Re Mohamed Nguida 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-action constitutional-remedy due-process judicial-abdication mandamus ultra-vires Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 100-day failure to rule on an emergency mandamus petition constitutes a denial of due process and access to justice und…
25A560 Jane Doe v. United States District Court for the District of Connecticut Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application alternative-remedy appellate-review extraordinary-writ judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se Whether a pro se litigant can obtain mandamus relief when alternative legal remedies exist and the right to extraordinary relief is not clearly establ…
25-6128 In Re Joseph Cammarata 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process judicial-process mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates due process by refusing to rule on an unopposed mandamus petition for over eight months, thereby nul…
25-569 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus Does an appellate court have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and Article III when a plaintiff voluntarily dismisses its claims with prejudice in o…
25-6046 In Re Larry E. Clark 2025-11-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdictional-error mandamus res-judicata Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has a constitutional duty to issue a mandamus to the 5th Circuit to reverse void judgments and address alleged jurisdic…
25-5855 In Re Caleb McGillvary 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3rd-circuit conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue to require recusal of 3rd Circuit judges due to alleged conflicts of interest in a habeas corpus proceeding
25-5638 Okechukwu Amadi v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process judicial-review mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to compel the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of prosecutorial miscon…
25-5531 In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy 2025-09-03 Denied IFP habeas-corpus mandamus panel-rehearing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Sixth Circuit to fulfill its obligation to fully and fairly decide the merits of the timely filed petiti…
25-5513 In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello 2025-09-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court mandamus notice-of-appeal pro-se Whether an Appellant proceeding Pro Se without counsel and without notice can challenge a district court's decision through a writ of mandamus or appe…
25-5335 In Re Xena Ames 2025-08-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination ineffective-counsel mandamus writ-of-certiorari Whether the issuance of a writ of mandamus is the proper procedure to correct a clear abuse of discretion by the trial court due to ineffective counse…
25-5307 In Re Sara Murray 2025-08-08 Denied IFP ada-compliance civil-rights disability-rights due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing courts to cease adjudicating cases involving judicial misconduct and disability rights violations
25A98 Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification Whether a pro se litigant's notice of constitutional challenge can independently trigger statutory certification requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b…
25-5148 Jose Antonio Cossio, Jr. v. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP air-force-court article-iii due-process mandamus supreme-court-precedent van-buren-decision Whether mandamus should issue against the Air Force when its court disregarded the Supreme Court's decision in Van Buren in violation of the Due Proce…
24-7440 In Re Cedric Jones, Sr. 2025-06-17 Denied IFP circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-authority mandamus Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals exceeded its authority by entering a decision in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent in a federal …
24A1105 Brad Greenspan v. Google, LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-16 Application crime-victims-rights-act due-process judicial-review mandamus petition statutory-interpretation Whether the D.C. Circuit improperly dismissed a Crime Victims' Rights Act petition as moot without addressing the merits, in violation of statutory re…
24-6993 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-04-15 Denied IFP disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the proc…
24-1053 In Re Sara Ann Edmondson 2025-04-07 Denied Relisted (2) article-iii color-of-law conspiracy mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will exercise its power to issue a writ of mandamus on the Third Circuit to reinstate Article III claims and direct investig…
24-6874 In Re Robert D. Batson 2025-03-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit mandamus pro-se-litigant Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has created local rules that arbitrarily encroach upon pro se litigants' rights and violate constitution…
24-1019 Kurt Kanam v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-24 Denied administrative-law declaratory-relief federal-indian-law injunctive-relief mandamus tribal-recognition Whether the Supreme Court can review administrative tribal recognition under the List Act and determine the appropriate judicial remedy for lack of ad…
24-6707 Eddie Turner v. Department of Justice, Office of Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts filing-fees judicial-review mandamus procedural-technicalities sovereign-immunity Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court improperly dismissed a petition for mandamus based on sovereign immunity and procedural technical…
24-915 In Re Bart Wade Reagor 2025-02-25 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue a decision without delay
24-6607 In Re Stephanie Mykonos 2025-02-21 Denied IFP brief-filing court-of-appeals docketing mandamus pro-se procedural-error Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to error correct a pro se petitioner's timely filed brief that was not docketed
24-901 Kaeun Kim v. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process judicial-bias mandamus obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-immunity Whether the Third Circuit erred in denying the Petition for Writ of Mandamus despite compelling evidence of judicial bias, obstruction of justice, and…
24-839 Roman Storm v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules inherent-power judicial-discretion mandamus Whether a district court may rely on its inherent power to contravene an express provision of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 16, and whether …
24-6448 Dennis Sheldon Brewer v. John Ratcliffe, Director, Central Intelligence Agency Fifth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent mandamus standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly disregarded established standing principles by dismissing a pleading sua sponte contrary to Supreme Court precede…
24A682 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus pro-se-litigation section-455 Whether a trial judge's repeated denial of motions for disqualification under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) constitutes a due process violation warranting mandam…
24-645 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Amici (3) article-iii cheney-standard declaratory-judgment mandamus redressability standing When plaintiffs have established ongoing injuries traceable to defendants' policies, does Article III require a particularized factual determination o…
24-6116 In Re Frank E. Pate 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-officer final-judgment judicial-review mandamus prosecutorial-discretion Whether the 5th Circuit can ignore 28 USC 2111 final judgment and review mandates after an 8-year dormant case period, and whether a U.S. Attorney mus…
24-567 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-21 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process mandamus rule-39.8 second-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in denying mandamus and whether the Supreme Court's application of Rule 39.8 violated due process and obstructed acc…
24-5988 In Re Bryan Lee Gregory 2024-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus Whether Chief Judge Smith violated 28 USC 352(a) by determining disputed facts in Mr. Gregory's complaint against district court judges and whether Mr…
24-5964 In Re Daniel E. Hall 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure local-rule-83.1 mandamus rule-60 writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will address fraud upon the court, procedural requirements under Local Rule 83.1(a), voiding proceedings under Rule 60, and …
24-5873 In Re Dana Albrecht 2024-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-influence judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus official-communication Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald to disclose details of a conversation regarding Justice Anna Barbara …
24-443 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure federal-circuit filing-date mandamus merit-systems-protection-board office-of-special-counsel Whether the Federal Circuit erred in failing to recognize the correct filing date and must correct case procedures related to MSPB and OSC proceedings
24A364 Debra Brown v. et Bank of America Corporation, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete court-integrity due-process financial-conflict judicial-recusal mandamus section-455 Whether a federal district court judge's undisclosed financial interest in a party requires mandatory vacatur of a judgment under judicial recusal sta…
24A365 Patrick Comack v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete academic-conflict bias disability-claim judicial-recusal mandamus social-security Whether a federal district court judge's prior academic affiliation creates a legally cognizable basis for mandatory judicial recusal in a social secu…
24-5605 In Re Shannon Clark 2024-09-20 Denied IFP all-writs-act constitutional-interpretation equitable-remedy federal-court-procedure judicial-power mandamus Whether the All Writs Act empowers the Supreme Court to issue a mandamus order compelling a federal court clerk to fulfill his duty
24A280 Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete criminal-proceeding district-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus Whether a federal district court judge's refusal to recuse themselves from a criminal proceeding violates a defendant's due process rights or constitu…
24-5562 In Re Will Graven 2024-09-17 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appeal-procedure court-process docket-forgery judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct mandamus Does the Supreme Court condone judicial misconduct including docket forgery, court process manipulation, and refusal to rule on matters?
24-5541 In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act clerk-of-court judicial-review mandamus non-discretionary-act supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court has authority to issue a Writ of Mandamus under the All Writs Act to compel its own Clerk to perform a non-discretionary act
24-244 In Re Scott Douglas Ora, Individually, and In His Derivative Capacity as Trustee of the Leo Robin Trust, on Behalf of the Leo Robin Trust 2024-09-05 Denied appellate-review conditions-precedent due-process mandamus trial-by-jury waiver Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Court of Appeal to remand the case to the trial court to rectify alleged due process violations …
24-5472 In Re Thomas Jayaton-Kerry 2024-09-05 Denied IFP due-process frivolous-filing in-forma-pauperis judicial-machinery mandamus ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err by dismissing Thomas' Jayaton-Kerry's Writ of Mandamus as frivolous and denying due process?
24-5442 Philander Philippeaux v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mandamus motion-pending Whether a federal district court judge's prolonged delay in ruling on pending motions constitutes a violation of procedural due process
24-209 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure governmental-immunity jurisdictional-challenge mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether a writ of mandamus or prohibition can be sought under multiple test conditions involving governmental entities
24-210 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-08-27 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure judicial-review mandamus relief-sought writ-of-prohibition Whether mandamus or prohibition writs can be issued to compel specific administrative actions
24A115 Justin Erskine v. Delaware Delaware 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction right-to-counsel Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to appointed counsel for a third post-conviction motion when no new evidence of actual innocen…
24-5182 Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure mandamus petition standing supreme-court Question not identified
24-54 Palani Karupaiyan v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied civil-procedure extraordinary-writs mandamus prohibition relief standing test-condition writ writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Question not identified.
24-1 In Re Yehoram Uziel 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus self-represented-litigant Whether Petitioner is entitled to an Extraordinary Writ of Mandamus to litigate his FEDERAL Court cases against the State of California
23A1163 J. David Golub v. Berdon, LLP Second Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation court-mandates due-process irreparable-injury mandamus procedural-sanctions Whether the lower court's mandates and procedural rulings violated the petitioner's constitutional due process rights and impermissibly created irrepa…
23A1117 Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus mandamus section-2254 sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief when state and federal courts allegedly failed to address the merits of a potentially merito…
23A1107 Abbott Laboratories, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete attorney-client-privilege crime-fraud-exception mandamus patent-litigation sham-litigation work-product-privilege Whether the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege can be applied to sham litigation or other non-criminal conduct beyond traditional frau…
23-7664 Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit administrative-review agency-decision appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure judicial-procedure jury-trial mandamus pending-motions remand Question not identified.
23A1096 In Re Eric Drake Texas 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-defendant emergency-relief mandamus procedural-stay state-court Whether a state criminal defendant can seek emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court to stay state court proceedings before exhausting state appel…
23-7532 In Re Keith Hager 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus Whether this court must issue a writ of mandamus where a federal court lacked authority to sentence petitioner upon an offense for which Congress did …
23A1033 In Re Rosalind Holmes 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion conflicts-of-interest extraordinary-circumstances judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se Whether a pro se litigant can demonstrate extraordinary circumstances warranting judicial review of multiple adverse judgments involving alleged syste…
23-7382 In Re Arthur Jones 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to issue the writ of mandamus
23-1180 Palani Karupaiyan v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law alternative-relief civil-procedure extraordinary-relief extraordinary-writs judicial-review legal-standard mandamus standing writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether the lower court erred in denying the requested writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief
23-7349 Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer whether-mandamus-relief-is-available
23-7189 A. R. P. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-10 Denied IFP baker-act civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandamus representation Did Florida's Supreme Court err in denying the application for a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus without first dealing with the constitutional i…
23-7130 In Re William Graven 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appeals-court appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal judicial-error judicial-oversight judicial-review mandamus motion-to-dismiss orders panel Can an Appeals Court Panel 'accidentally' miss/not rule on a second appealed/argued Order, and then just ignore that second argued Order, even when re…
23-1070 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-04-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability jurisdictional-challenge mandamus multi-party-litigation official-capacity standing writ-of-prohibition Whether the petitioners' requested writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief were properly denied by the lower courts
23-1026 In Re Palani Karupaiyan 2024-03-19 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition standing Whether the petitioners' requested over 30 reliefs were properly denied
23-1035 Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine conflicts-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-conduct judicial-disqualification mandamus recusal standing Whether the district judge should be disqualified from presiding over a case based on bias or prejudicial, financial interest, or other impermissible …
23-949 In Re David Erlanson, Sr. 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi…
23-6846 In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Nevada Supreme Court violated petitioner's fundamental due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment by denying her pet…
23-923 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure extraordinary-writs mandamus prohibition relief relief-sought standing test-condition writ-of-prohibition Whether the petitioners have satisfied the requirements for the extraordinary writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief
23-6653 Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing Whether petitioner has standing to file a habeas and mandamus petition
23-6565 In Re Derrick Thompson 2024-01-25 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure duty-owed federal-agency federal-officer judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-duty writ-of-mandamus Should this court grant a writ of mandamus to compel a federal officer or agency to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff
23-6434 Pascal Gedeon v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment judicial-discretion mandamus pretrial-motions speedy-trial-act vagueness Whether delays resulting from pretrial motions can be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act
23-700 Palani Karupaiyan v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-29 Dismissed administrative-law civil-procedure legal-procedure mandamus prohibition relief-request standing test-condition writ writ-of-prohibition Whether the petitioners have satisfied the requirements for the issuance of a writ of mandamus or prohibition
23-701 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-29 Dismissed Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writs judicial-procedure jurisdiction mandamus prohibition standing test-condition writ Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus or prohibition
23-6395 In Re Daniel Lee Beckley 2023-12-28 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-procedure federal-appeals filing-deadline houston-v-lack incarcerated-person mandamus prison-mail prisoner-litigation pro-se-filing supreme-court-mandate timely-filing Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to abide by the Supreme Court's holding in Houston v. Lack and accept Petitione…
23-680 In Re Frander Salguero 2023-12-22 Denied Relisted (2) brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-duty due-process false-evidence judicial-power mandamus mandamus-petition napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct Whether mandamus should compel the prosecutor to fulfill his constitutional duty and correct the known false record
23-608 In Re Joseph Gothard, et al. 2023-12-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-overreach civil-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief mandamus property-rights standing Whether the Supreme Court grants certiorari to address major questions of national significance regarding agencies suspending laws and asserting autho…
23-609 Frander Salguero v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-duty false-evidence habeas habeas-corpus mandamus prejudice-test prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Whether habeas is the sole remedy or remedy by mandamus is a permissible means to effectuate the constitutional duty to correct false evidence when a …
23A476 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights Whether state legislative privilege is an absolute bar to discovery in civil rights litigation involving potential voting rights violations or whether…
23-6075 William Phillip Neidinger v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy constitutional-interpretation due-process effective-counsel identity-rights judicial-defect judicial-review jury-selection mandamus presumption-of-innocence selective-prosecution Is not having actual availability of effective counsel and actual presumption of innocence, particularly in cases deriving from previous judicial defe…
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…
23A457 Leslie Willis v. Dolores Willis Third Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time jurisdiction mandamus petition supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under extraordinary circumstances
23A459 Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete circuit-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-removal mandamus procedural-fairness Whether a federal court improperly removed a judge from a case without providing a substantive explanation for the removal and potentially violating d…
23-532 In Re William B. Jolley 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure due-process judicial-review mandamus mspb veterans veterans-rights whistleblower whistleblower-protection Do Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decisions of Veteran and Whistleblower appeals fail for lack of 'due process' where 5 C.F.R. § 1201.57(d), st…
23-491 In Re Nathaniel Briggs, et al. 2023-11-08 Denied briggs-v-elliott brown-v-board brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights desegregation due-process mandamus racial-segregation standing supreme-court-clerk writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should direct the Clerk of the United States Supreme Court to reissue the Brown v. Board with the proper case listed first:…
23A395 Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete discretionary-review impartiality judicial-disqualification mandamus recusal statutory-standard Whether a federal district court judge must recuse himself under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) when a party alleges potential judicial bias or prejudice in a civ…
23-5874 In Re L. E. Pauli Coffey 2023-10-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment mandamus sovereign-immunity standing timely-response Do the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure (Fed R. Civ. P 12) and the Federal Laws of Appellate Procedure (31) set a time limit for a respondent to respon…
23-399 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2023-10-17 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act article-iii circuit-disqualification civil-rights civil-rights-claims constitutional-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality mandamus mandamus-relief standing Whether a U.S. circuit court may concede its disqualification to adjudicate a matter and then refuse to transfer the action to another qualified circu…
23-345 In Re Jeffry Thul 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-employee federal-employee-rights mandamus regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation takings Whether the National Park Service municipality's conduct violated 5 C.F.R. § 353.301(d) or constitutional rights
23-5685 In Re Bobby Richardson 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-procedure jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-discretionary-duty rule-12b1 standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether petitioner is entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus from this Court, to compel the lower court(s) to adjudicate petitioner's Fed. R…
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia impeded the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia and/or the Supreme Court of the United St…
23-5415 Derrick Jackson-Stith, Sr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process judicial-delay jurisdiction-challenge mandamus mandamus-relief oath-of-office standing state-constitution statutory-law statutory-mandate Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Mr. Jackson-Stith's request for mandamus relief to compel dismissal under a state stat…
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?
23-76 Palani Karupaiyan v. Infosys BPM, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sua-sponte-dismissing-the-complaint-before-requiring-the-defendants-to-answer
23-77 Palani Karupaiyan v. Tata Consultancy Services, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review jurisdictional-error mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the district court erred in sua sponte dismissing the pro se civil-rights complaint before requiring the defendants to answer, and whether the…
23-78 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims on preclusive grounds despite the dismissal being based on pleading deficiencies …
23-5175 In Re Gregory Albert Darst 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures appellate-dismissal civil-procedure docket-manipulation judicial-immunity mandamus procedural-due-process recusal standing Did Clerk Smith or staff attorney dismiss appeal 22-10918 without involvement of judicial officers?
23-5128 In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. 2023-07-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion?
22-7591 In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. 2023-05-18 Dismissed IFP 28-usc-1361 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation Did the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas Judge violate Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4(c)(3), and 28 U.S.C. §1915(d)?
22-7530 Anthony Chambers v. Department of the Treasury Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure docket-entries due-process mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of certiorari commanding the respondent to immediately make a certified copy of the entries and the cause…
22-7473 In Re Raj K. Patel 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims-court federal-courts mandamus ordered-liberty standing tucker-act Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims abused its discretion in interpreting its own filing bar and denying the complaint
22-7414 John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Erred When It Denied Certiorari to the District Court Proceedings
22-6980 In Re Michael Blodgett 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP amg-v-ftc coram-nobis criminal-conviction due-process frap-rule-21 judicial-error mandamus mandamus-relief restitution stare-decisis vertical-stare-decisis Where the record reveals uncontested facts that the Eighth Circuit committed more than seventeen structural errors over thirty years in three related …
22-870 Eliezer Taveras v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied civil-procedure claim-splitting district-court due-process federal-courts forum-shopping improper-claim-splitting mandamus removal removal-jurisdiction Whether a district court's decision to dismiss with prejudice an action improperly removed from state court is clear and manifest error that should be…
22-6919 In Re DeAnn Graham 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights clear-error due-process fair-housing justiciability mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay
22-6921 In Re Oscar Adrian Marquez 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction mandamus Is the failure of a District Court and a United States Court of Appeals to order instant dismissal of the immediate case for lack of Article III Stand…
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…
22-754 In Re Christy Poon-Atkins 2023-02-10 Denied civil-procedure clerical-errors court-procedure document-alteration due-process evidence false-documents judicial-review legal-relief mandamus mishandled-evidence writ-of-mandamus Should evidence of clerical errors, the Defendants' submission of false and altered documents, and mishandled evidence result in the issuance of a Wri…
22-6604 In Re Daniel Sheehan 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit has improperly reduced the 2241 gateway via 2255(e) through abuses of discretion in creating conflicting dicta that contradi…
22-6590 In Re Harry Sharod James 2023-01-20 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus procedural-standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for th…
22-6551 Palani Karupaiyan v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-17 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus municipal-court parental-rights procedural-relief prohibition standing takings writ Whether the petitioner's requested writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief were properly denied by the lower courts
22-637 In Re Larry Elliot Klayman 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-rights court-intervention due-process injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus new-trial standing Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the District Court to conduct a new trial in the JW Case
22-6342 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-relief jurisdiction legal-standard mandamus parallel-proceedings prohibition standing Whether the petitioner's requested relief of a writ of mandamus or prohibition was properly denied
22-6235 In Re DeAnn Graham 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure clear-error due-process justiciability mandamus remand Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay
22-5921 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process grand-jury indictment mandamus personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court lacked subject-matter and personal jurisdiction in the petitioner's criminal proceedings
22-5807 In Re Daniel Kwaku Gbedemah 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP extrajudicial-killings fiduciary-duties human-rights-violations mandamus national-security subject-matter-jurisdiction torture-victims-protection-act void-judgment whether Congress implicitly or explicitly bar Petitioner a victim of 'extrajudicial killings and torture' from seeking relief under the Torture Victim…
22-5706 Lynn Z. Smith v. Andrea Dobin, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-corruption civil-rights constitutional-rights docket-fraud due-process federal-judiciary judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-petition standing supreme-court Should SCOTUS handle corruption-in-circuits cases separately?
22-5658 William L. Whipple v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP appeal appeal-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-access judicial-review mandamus ministerial-duty standing Can mandamus be deemed as a substitute for appeal when litigant was denied equal access to court and deprived of his due process right to reserve issu…
22-5628 In Re Tony Walker 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation Whether the January 23, 2014 standing blanket order of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and 28 U.S.C. §1915(e)…
22-5587 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability from a specifically chosen circuit judge?
22-228 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-immunity bad-faith damages federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus patent-examination patent-rights takings takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion and obstructed justice
22-5524 Deandre Johnson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus petition-for-writ standing unlawful-detention Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus
22-172 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus microsoft-v-baker voluntary-dismissal Does an appellate court have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and Article III when a plaintiff voluntarily dismisses its claims with prejudice in o…
22-5415 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lost-evidence mandamus mandamus-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b speedy-trial Did the Tenth Circuit err in not granting a COA and refusing to remand back to the district court or to properly consider Medina's Rule 60(b) motion?
22-5388 In Re Roszetta Marie McNeill 2022-08-18 Dismissed IFP administrative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process fraud fraud-claim legal-duty mandamus standing venue-change writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Oakland Circuit court to retain jurisdiction of case or/to remand the case to the district court…
22-5391 Lin Ouyang v. Mark A. Borenstein, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-18 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process final-judgment mandamus procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Appeals has reached a genuinely final judgment under 28 U.S.C. §2101 (c) and this Court's Rule 13.3?
22-5290 In Re Phillip A. Brown, II 2022-08-04 Denied IFP circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-the-circuit-court-must-recall-the-mandate
22-5202 In Re Tavon Dameon Davis 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals (Fourth Circuit) to remand this case to the district court without delay to hol…
22-5166 In Re DeVinche Javon AlBritton 2022-07-22 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law due-process federal-appeals federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus procedural-standard standing Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit be required to articulate the court's grounds for granting or denying authorization t…
22-39 Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights divine-intervention due-process judicial-petition jurisdiction mandamus mandarin-interpreter pro-se religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-communication standing Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelations and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law
22-38 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied 28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus Whether the Federal Circuit has subject matter jurisdiction over a petition for writ of mandamus challenging a denial of a motion to transfer venue un…
22-5089 Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances grand-jury-investigation mandamus pro-se-litigation standing writ-of-mandamus Whether a prima facie case under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act or 18 U.S.C. § 1512 establishes a clear and indisputable right t…
21-8259 In Re Johnny Brett Gregory 2022-06-29 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus mandamus ninth-circuit standing united-states-court-of-appeals writ-of-certiorari Should this court issue a writ of mandamus ordering the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to issue a writ of mandamus
21-8284 In Re Matthew Lee Staszak 2022-06-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process forensic-report habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus obstruction-of-justice writ-of-mandamus Whether the Supreme Court should issue the writ of mandamus to mandate the lower court's review of a forensic report surrounding petitioner's substant…
21-1575 Geoffrey M. Young v. Jeremy Mattox, Judge, Circuit Court of Kentucky, 14th Judicial Circuit Kentucky 2022-06-21 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure clerk court-clerk judicial-discretion judicial-ethics mandamus ministerial-duties prohibition Does any circuit court judge have the authority or discretion to prevent the clerk of the circuit court from properly performing her ministerial dutie…
21-8114 In Re Jordan Cordell Hudson 2022-06-10 Denied IFP civil-rights court-filing due-process exceptional-circumstances legal-review mandamus procedural-validity standing supreme-court-procedure supreme-court-rules timeliness writ-of-certiorari Where the service of the Supreme Court of the United States was denied
21-8013 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-06-01 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361
21-7882 In Re Lin Ouyang 2022-05-16 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals court-rules exceptional-circumstances final-judgment finality-of-judgment frivolous-appeal mandamus statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to rule the motion for reconsideration
21-7806 Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP covid-19 executive-privilege glomar-response grand-jury mandamus marbury-vs-madison public-interest supreme-court-rules Whether a writ of mandamus can compel the convening of a grand jury
21-7790 In Re Gina Russomanno 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights curative-remedy dismissal district-court due-process mandamus mandamus-writ ministerial-action res-judicata rule-12b6-dismissal Whether the Supreme Court will compel Chief Judge Freda L. Wolfson to perform a required ministerial action
21-7634 In Re Lin Ouyang 2022-04-15 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-of-appeals exceptional-circumstances finality-of-judgment judicial-procedure mandamus motion-reconsideration reconsideration writ-of-mandamus Whether the court of appeals has reached a genuinely final judgment?
21-1286 In Re W. A. Griffin 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty health-plan mandamus pre-emption preemption Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD
21-1287 In Re W. A. Griffin 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty georgia-law health-benefits healthcare-provider mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD (\'Dr. Griffin\'), a Georgia provider; who obtained a writ…
21-7407 Janece Tisdel v. The Witness Protection Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction government-disability legal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the United States Court of Appeals and the United States District Court have subject matter jurisdiction?
21-7372 Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation Second Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion discrimination-laws failure-to-act judicial-review mandamus petition-for-review standing unreasonable-withholding Can a petitioner file a petition for review of an agency action for a failure to act, relying on the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)
21-7246 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2022-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mandamus standing ultra-vires Whether the willful disobedience or adoption of a deliberate policy in open defiance of the federal rules has allowed U.S. Supreme Court Case Analyst …
21-1115 In Re Wanda Bowling 2022-02-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues a failure to execute duties or abuse of discretion?
21-1085 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived convenience convenience-standard forum-non-conveniens judicial-discretion mandamus patent-rights statutory-venue transfer venue venue-transfer Can a district court transfer a matter to a statutorily proscribed district based on expressly disregarding undisputed facts creating the proscription
21-6978 In Re Isaiah Harris 2022-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-chambers certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandamus sixth-circuit ultra-vires Is it clear and indisputable that clerk Hunt acted in ultra vires in denying Harris' COA, that jurists could disagree with the district court's resolu…
21-1039 In Re Gregory Charles Kapordelis 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writ federal-courts mandamus recusal recusal-orders statutory-jurisdiction Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus
21-6947 Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the appellants writ of mandamus
21-6910 Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. W. Stephen Muldrow First Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-for-government attorney-for-the-government criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure grand-jury grand-jury-procedure indictment indictment-validity judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-petition Questions Presented for Court Review
21-6862 In Re Daniel Jones 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-relief federal-courts filing-requirements judicial-procedure mandamus prisoner-rights standing is-petitioner-entitled-to-immediate-relief
21-962 In Re Whole Woman's Health, et al. 2022-01-04 Denied abortion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus remand standing texas writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay
21-930 Xiu Jian Sun v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2021-12-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law divine-law due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus religious-petition standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
21-836 Sara Gonzalez Flavell v. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development District of Columbia 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-due-process prohibition writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate due to the district court's failure to establish and stay within its limited jurisdictional authority
21-6373 Krishna Mote v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied IFP appeals-court civil-action criminal-matter federal-court fugitive-disentitlement judicial-review mandamus warrant-issuance writ-of-mandamus Whether the Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine bars a petitioner from litigating a civil action in federal court when the petitioner was indicted and a …
21-6183 In Re Charles Gary Bruce 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se When a petitioner makes a prima facie showing of constitutionally impermissible conduct by prosecution, must court hold a Franks hearing to investigat…
21-6079 Austin Brand v. Oregon Oregon 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP art-canon civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-order oregon-law pro-se standing supreme-court Is the maxim advised to the Oregon Supreme Courts mandamus order pre-discretionary to disposition concerning a judicial body's bias and awe inspiring …
21-5949 In Re Henryk S. Borecki 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure citizenship-documentation due-process federal-authority identity-documents immigration mandamus real-id-act travel travel-identification Whether this court should issue a writ of mandamus to expedite issuance of petitioner's REAL ID
21-5895 In Re David Angel Sifuentes 2021-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-procedure banister-v-davis case-precedent constitutional-provisions judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition rule-21 rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion sixth-circuit-jurisdiction Is the Sixth Circuit required to docket Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus and apply Banister v. Davis to Petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion?
21-5832 In Re Leslie Willis 2021-09-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP beneficiary beneficiary-designation civil-procedure disclosure disclosure-request financial-institution mandamus pnc-bank safe-deposit-records trust trust-instrument writ-of-mandamus Whether the Court should issue a WRIT OF MANDAMUS to PNC Bank and The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. to disclose the Trust Instrument, Beneficiary…
21-5674 In Re Gregory Scott Savoy 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech mandamus standing Is there no escape ever?
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Which appeals court has the duty to issue supervisory writs of mandamus under the All Writs Act during a combined antitrust and patent infringement la…
21-284 In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk whether-the-fourth-circuit-abused-its-discretion-in-failing-to-render-a-timely-decision
21-5343 Jimmie Washington, aka Jim Washington v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cheney-standard cheney-test civil-procedure immediate-relief injunction injunctive-relief judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition stay writ-of-certiorari Whether a court of appeals failure to grant a first and second amended petition for writ of mandamus conflicts with this court and other court of appe…
21-174 David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amended-complaint civil-procedure constitutional-rights fraud fraud-on-court judicial-conflict mandamus pecuniary-interest recusal rule-15 rule-15a standing whether-writ-of-mandamus-should-have-been-granted
21-5316 In Re Taryn Christian 2021-08-06 Dismissed IFP autonomy brady-v-maryland brady-violation counsel-strategy habeas-corpus mandamus mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment strickland Whether the Sixth Amendment right to autonomy over the objective of one's defense, as recognized in McCoy v. Louisiana, applies retroactively on colla…
21-5300 In Re Richard Charles Lussy 2021-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process estate-litigation extrinsic-fraud fraud mandamus mandamus-petition ministerial-duty oath-of-office probate-dispute vexatious-litigant Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to ministerially order the setting aside of …
21-100 Panya Lerdthaisong, et al. v. Benjamin Cunningham, et al. Texas 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process equal-protection forum-selection-clause mandamus precedents writ-of-mandamus Whether the Supreme Court of Texas' failure to follow its precedents in enforcing the forum-selection-clause is a denial of equal-protection
21-103 In Re Charles Landon Roberson 2021-07-26 Denied academic-freedom academic-progress civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process graduate-admission mandamus medical-disability retaliation standing university-liability Whether Plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the university administration's actions, leading to a request for mandamus to admit Plainti…
20-8461 In Re Richard Charles Lussy 2021-06-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-torts due-process federal-questions jury-trial mandamus ministerial-mandamus oath-of-office public-charge standing Whether the petitioner has a clear legal duty for the Chief Justice to perform a ministerial mandamus act, despite the respondents' alleged errors and…
20-8338 Mark Woods v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process final-judgment jurisdiction mandamus writ-of-procedencia Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Abused Its discretion in denying petitioner's Writ of Procedendo ad Judicium or Manda…
20-1739 Carline M. Curry v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al., Sixth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response Waived bad-faith-affidavit civil-procedure default-judgment informa-pauperis mandamus preponderance-of-evidence summary-judgment Whether the plaintiff should have been awarded default judgment and summary judgment under Ohio civil procedure rules
20-8299 In Re Michael Skillern 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent mandamus scotus writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus Does the Eleventh Circuit's rule in Crutchfield v. Wainwright abrogate or modify the Supreme Court decision in Geders v. United States?
20-8157 In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain 2021-05-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district cour…
20-8133 In Re Silas Wilson, Jr. 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process inadequate-hearing judicial-discretion mandamus misreading-of-motion pro-se rule-60 rule-60(b)(4) standard-of-review Whether this Court has jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus directed to the Court of appeals
20-7939 Cedric Jones, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerk-signature collateral-review court-order due-process judicial-procedure mandamus official-misconduct procedural-validity recusal standing Whether an appellate court clerk can sign a valid order without a judge's signature
20-7885 Maurice Cortez Proctor, Sr. v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus recusal standing Did the lower court err in denying MM. Pyoctr's petition for writ of mandamus to the district court, particularly the denial of its motion to recuse J…
20-7834 Steven Cooper v. Florida Florida 2021-04-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-possession constitutional-rights criminal-mischief criminal-procedure due-process grand-theft mandamus pro-se-representation self-representation trespass Whether it is unconstitutional for a defendant's pro per Motion to Discharge Counsel and Waiver of Right to Counsel to be dismissed for the only reaso…
20-7835 Steven Cooper v. Florida Florida 2021-04-22 Denied IFP adverse-possession circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandamus right-to-counsel trespass Whether a defendant has the right to waive presence at pretrial conferences
20-7733 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2021-04-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mandamus unlawful-detention Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the court of appeals refused to adjudicate his case without reasons
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-04-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) erred in denying a writ of mandamus
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
20-7588 Anthony Sharif Gay v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority inalienable-rights law-enforcement mandamus standing state-authority Whether a Court's knowing review of, and ruling on, a petition for writ of mandamus, that was neither authored nor delivered by the Petitioners, const…
20-1230 In Re Reginald L. Sydnor 2021-03-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law-judge administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act constitutional-appointment due-process lucia-v-sec mandamus merit-systems-protection-board standing united-states-constitution Does petitioner's repeated timely requests for his appropriate ALJ due process hearing before a constitutionally appointed board ALJ, although all wer…
20-7354 In Re Michael Robinson 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct mandamus self-representation Question not identified
20-1211 SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision
20-7170 In Re Abhijit Prasad 2021-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus pro-se standing supervised-release Question not identified
20-1051 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived appeal-procedure civil-procedure contempt discovery discovery-order foia-request intervenor judicial-review mandamus post-judgment-appeal writ-of-intervention Whether a witness can seek a writ of mandamus and bypass the 'disobedience and contempt route to appeal a discovery order' by becoming an intervenor f…
20-1023 Jean Coulter v. Philip A. Ignelzi, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus rule-233.1 rule-making-authority standing vagueness Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutional?
20-1035 In Re Jody D. Kimbrell 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-counting civil-rights due-process election-certification election-dispute election-integrity federal-election-law judicial-review mandamus mandamus-relief standing voter-rights Does a voter in Illinois have a right to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to order the [Uinois Election Commission, Governor of Illinois and the Cook Co…
20-912 Abigail Ladd, et al. v. Jack Marchbanks Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation knick-v-township-of-scott mandamus property-rights takings takings-clause Whether Ohio's mandamus scheme provides its citizens with a reasonable, certain, and/or adequate procedure or process sufficient to meet the guarantee…
20-793 Samir Rafic Khoury v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure indictment-dismissal mandamus mandamus-relief post-indictment-delay post-judgment-review prejudice speedy-trial Whether a Court of Appeals may review, on petition for a writ of mandamus, the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on sp…
20-6603 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-12-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mandamus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the court to provide the peti…
20-777 In Re Darren Heyman 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment Whether a presiding judge must recuse/disqualify themselves when the judge has active teaching ties with a named-party university
20-726 In Re Stephanie Michael 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act forum-non-conveniens judicial-review mandamus qualified-immunity res-judicata va-benefits veterans-claims veterans-judicial-review-act Whether agency actions affecting the provision of VA benefits under applicable law may be reviewed by any other official or by any court of competent …
20-699 Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal Whether a plaintiff has an absolute right to voluntary dismissal under FRCP Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i)
20-6287 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-11-12 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-review habeas-corpus mandamus procedural-default Whether the United States and a pattern of utilizing an erroneous certificate of appealability is the only appropriate remedy, where petitioners have …
20-6207 Steven Cooper v. Bay County, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-possession constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review mandamus property-rights statutory-interpretation takings trespass vagueness Whether the Florida Statute for Adverse Possession without Color of Title section 95.18 is unconstitutionally vague
20-5820 In Re Gregory Lamar Mathis 2020-09-25 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a…
20-5726 In Re Charlette Dufray Johnson 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-process mandamus standing Whether the only legal remedy to resolve the biggest miscarriage of justice in the 21st century is the issuance of a writ of mandamus
20-331 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. District of Columbia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-14 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) abuse-of-discretion district-court domestic-emoluments emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments interlocutory-appeal legal-error mandamus motion-to-dismiss presidential-immunity Whether a writ of mandamus is appropriate to correct the district court's denial of the President's motion to dismiss and refusal to certify an interl…
20-5657 Eric Bernard Scott v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review mandamus procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion
20-305 Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process executive-order judicial-review mandamus mootness Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgments granting writs o…
20-5497 Marcus Simpson v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Hamilton County, et al. Ohio 2020-08-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-usurpation mandamus perjury wrongful-conviction Whether perjury has amounted to and causes one or both the judicial usurpation of power or abuse of discretion by the trial court, therefore mandamus …
20-5289 Justin W. Sanderson v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Ohio 2020-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether this present petition should be liberally construed by this court as a petition for Writ of Mandamus or as an original request for a Writ of H…
20-5136 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2020-07-23 Denied IFP case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process executive-committee executive-power federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-order mandamus mandamus-petition standing whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner on June 17, 2020 is legal
20-5040 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act mandamus personal-liberty sentence-reduction sentencing Whether petitioner is entitled to a reduced sentence under Section 404 of the First Step Act
20-5045 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified
20-5046 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writs judicial-review mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity state-law supervisory-power writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a…
20-5047 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity standing state-law writ-of-prohibition Whether the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus would be justified
19-1447 Yehudi Manzano v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731
19-8761 Nivaldo Riascos v. United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts mandamus standing whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-dismissing-the-petition-for-writ-of-mandamus
19-8684 Brian David Hill v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process fraud-allegations fraud-on-the-court judicial-inaction jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mandamus mandamus-petition pending-motions Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Mandamus should apply to the case of multiple pending motions not being act…
19-8492 In Re Tim Sundy 2020-05-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record due-process equal-protection fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure mandamus standing Equal-protection
19-1287 In Re Robert Sarhan, et ux. 2020-05-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition rooker-feldman-doctrine sanctions standing state-court-judgment writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of mandamus be issued to the Eleventh Circuit
19-8328 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy civil-procedure discovery due-process forced-medication ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se standing Is it an abuse of discretion for the First Circuit Court to deny mandamus because the District Court could respond but never has?
19-8136 In Re Lawrence Crawford 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-courts jurisdictional-claims mandamus parties standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Did the petitioner sufficiently establish the right to have the writ of mandamus granted?
19-1090 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing, sua sponte, the complaint seeking judicial review of agency action under the Administrative Proce…
19-1092 In Re TCT Mobile International Limited 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonresident …
19-1010 Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (6) civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery claw-back discovery discovery-scope document-production federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus mandamus-review proportionality relevance relevance-standard rule-26 scope-of-discovery Whether a district court may compel a party that has not engaged in discovery-related misconduct to produce documents that are neither relevant nor re…
19-7658 In Re Robert Strange 2020-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition standing supreme-court Question not identified
19-986 Mary Lou Vosburgh, et al. v. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied civil-rights due-process government-action liberty-interest mandamus name-clearing procedural-rights reputation reputation-harm When a government actor deprives an individual of his liberty interest in his reputation, is a state court proceeding in the nature of mandamus to com…
19-7466 In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez 2020-01-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in excessively delaying the case, engaging in discriminatory conduct, and refusing to recognize the corporate structu…
19-7411 In Re Lionel McCray 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration Whether Mandamus should issue to compel the Second Circuit Court to enter a Finding of Contempt
19-7374 In Re John Wallace 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute whether-magistrate-judge-exceeded-authority-in-issuing-strike
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation?
19-916 Vernon Wendell Risby v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel due-process leosa mandamus retaliation title-vii Is Collateral Estoppel applicable where the prior Mandamus case dealt only with the issue of whether the Agency was obligated under LEOSA to provide a…
19-7321 Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-misconduct governmental-misconduct informed-consent mandamus mandamus-action medical-experimentation medical-information-withholding standing Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the evidence in this case and recognize and acknowledge that the respondent, the United States of …
19-803 Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. New York 2019-12-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing state-court takings Petition for writ of certiorari
19-699 Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discretionar…
19-6702 In Re Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-writ pro-se-litigation social-security standing transfer Whether Petitioner has a Right for direct appeal to this court?
19-637 Emma Serna v. Margette Webster, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute default-judgments deprivation-of-rights due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure mandamus misconduct standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued to obtain a written judgment to execute, which has money issued with it, after the state supreme court had…
19-6580 In Re Marcus Simpson 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-system due-process judicial-power judicial-usurpation legal-remedy mandamus perjury power-abuse standing usurpation-of-power Whether perjury amounts to a judicial usurpation of power, therefore mandamus (Lie)
19-6564 In Re Wei Zhou 2019-11-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite…
19-6452 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court Should a writ of mandamus be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity violated an earlier subpoena for records?
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation Question not identified
19-6169 In Re Anthony Brawner 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdiction mandamus maryland-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights venue Does the District of Columbia superior court have subject matter jurisdiction over crimes that happen in the State of Maryland?
19-6121 In Re Matthew Lee Staszak 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct Should this Supreme Court issue the writ of mandamus to compel the district court to adjudicate petitioner's 28 USC § 2255 habeas corpus petition
19-359 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-carrier due-process first-class-postage judicial-bias mandamus penalty-of-perjury recusal service standing supreme-court-rule third-party-carrier writ-of-mandamus Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the petitioners' request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district court to recuse itself from the unde…
19-5873 In Re Richard Arjun Kaul 2019-09-09 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction district-court fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption mandamus summary-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court's arbitrary refusal to adjudicate the petitioner's 22 motions for summary judgment was a consequence of judicial corruption…
19-5737 Jerome Burnam v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-reasoning due-process judicial-procedure mandamus meaningful-opportunity-to-seek-redress re-sentencing reasons reasons-on-the-record record redress sentence-imposition writ-of-mandamus Whether Writ of Mandamus jurisdiction was abridged or if this Petitioner's Due Process Rights were Denied to Meaningful opportunity to seek Redress, f…
19-5721 In Re Craig Melvin Schafer 2019-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-accountability judicial-performance mandamus mandamus-writ standing state-liability takings tort-law Is a state allowed to violate the 7th Amendment and deny civil hearings?
19-5687 In Re Luis E. Morales 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process due-process-rights mandamus obstruction-of-justice pro-se-prisoner procedural-rights rebuttable-presumption rebuttal second-successive-motion successive-habeas-petitions Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals created a rebuttable presumption in its order denying the petitioner's request to file a second/successive §…
19-218 Xiu Jian Sun v. Wu Hua Jing, et al. New York 2019-08-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-messenger due-process governor judicial-intervention jurisdictional-claim legal-petition mandamus mandarin-chinese registered-mail religious-doctrine religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the messenger sent by Jehovah, the Lord of host, through the angel, has the authority to bring the case before the judge
19-5580 In Re Sebastian Eccleston 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-writ federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus Whether the exceptional circumstances of this case warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary powers to issue a writ of mandamus pursuant to 2…
19-5382 In Re Solomon Roberts 2019-07-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-454 abuse-of-judicial-power district-court-function due-process federal-system judicial-administration judicial-administration-federal-system judicial-power magistrate-judge-neutrality mandamus section-2241 supervisory-control supreme-court-control u.s.-supreme-court Whether the supervisory control of U.S. Supreme Court is necessary to proper Judicial Administration in the Federal System?
19-5405 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights dismissal-order due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus pro-se-litigation sanctions sovereign-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims against the United States government and its officials, in violation of the pet…
19-5295 In Re Larry Charles 2019-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus right-to-appeal sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent writ-of-mandamus Do exceptional circumstances exist in the Petitioner's case that justify granting his Petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus when he has demonstrated a c…
19-5208 Ruth Torres v. Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, et al. Texas 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-records due-process equal-protection inability-to-pay injunction judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se-litigation prohibition Should US Supreme Court resolve denial of due process and equal protections when full release of requested clerk records was denied, then Writs of Man…
18-9750 John G. Curry v. Mark Joseph Lopez, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-violations constitutional-deprivation due-process federal-forum federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity mandamus mandamus-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether John G. Curry or someone similarly situated can be denied a federal forum, contrary to standards, by misapplication of doctrines, such as Rook…
18-9706 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-concealment evidence-disclosure fair-trial judicial-access judicial-procedure mandamus material-facts rules-and-regulations standing state-procedure transparency Whether the state violated the Constitution and deprived petitioner of due process rights by concealing exculpatory evidence and witness statements fr…
18-1497 In Re Minor L. McNeil 2019-05-31 Denied administrative-commission article-iii article-iii-judicial-issue article-iv article-iv-court due-process hayburns-case judicial-proceeding jury-trial mandamus war-crime Whether Mandamus shall issue to an Article IV Court to close its judicial side, and open an Administrative Commission to supervise a jury trial procee…
18-1484 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied atlantic-marine convenience-of-parties district-court-discretion federal-courts federal-policy forum-selection forum-selection-clause judicial-precedent mandamus mandamus-relief public-policy state-policy transfer-of-venue Whether a district court's disregard of Atlantic Marine is sufficient grounds for mandamus relief
18-1472 In Re Christopher Hadsell 2019-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt…
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…
18-9331 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US…
18-9332 In Re Nawaz Ahmed 2019-05-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus mandamus prohibition standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request for an extraordinary writ of mandamus and/or prohibition
18-9292 Timothy B. Fredrickson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bail bail-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandamus pre-trial-detention pre-trial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation What recourse is available to a defendant, when an appeal and mandamus enforcement of the ministerial and self-executing release on bail provision of …
18-1402 Harold R. Stanley, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-05-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-procedure,filing-fees,refunds Can Circuits impose a burden to prove circumstance Can litigants present their case to appellate cour court-administration court-discretion due-process due-process,mandamus,judicial-misconduct,irs,recor irs judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-relief pacer,appellate-procedure,records-on-appeal procedural-due-process record-falsification rule-59-motion supervisory-powers When a judge refuses to adjudicate a Rule 59(e) motion alleging misconduct, can mandamus relief be conditioned on proving the refusal itself is 'egreg…
18-9176 Gregory T. Pierce v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period mandamus mandamus-application post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-review state-post-conviction Should Petitioner's state collateral review requests be considered as pending to toll the AEDPA 1-year limitations period?
18-8919 In Re Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review mandamus procedural-due-process standing Does any Court have a legal right to issue a dispositive Order without a detailed explanation about why this decision was reached?
18-1322 The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, et al. v. New York City Police Department, et al. New York 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived animal-cruelty establishment-clause executive-branch free-exercise judicial-branch legislative-branch mandamus separation-of-powers standing writ-of-mandamus Can the New York State Judicial Branch refuse to issue a writ of mandamus when the executive branch defies the legislative branch?
18-8877 Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Should the District Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus under 28 U.S.C. § 1361 be reviewed?
18-8805 In Re Andre Rene Scott 2019-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment Whether the ruling in Marbury v. Madison still stands
18-8790 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2019-04-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access judicial-power mandamus mandate recall-mandate Is mandamus the appropriate remedy to compel a circuit court clerk to accept, file, and submit a motion to recall the court's prior mandate?
18-1285 Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection
18-8722 In Re Curtis Lee Sheppard 2019-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-ruling mandamus prisoner-rights standing Whether the Eighth Circuit's refusal to allow the petitioner to file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b) was proper
18-1263 Jason Brian Braun v. Department of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-02 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-error civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-petition standing status-conference transfer venue venue-transfer Whether district court erred in dismissing claims and transferring venue in violation of rules and procedures
18-1236 S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Texas 2019-03-22 Denied amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure mandamus standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether Petitioners' due process right was violated when the Supreme Court of Texas summarily denied their petition for writ of mandamus without reaso…
18-8485 In Re Michael David Hower 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mandamus massaro-v-united-states plea-coercion prohibition Is the petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus or prohibition from this Court, to protect his constitutional and statutory rights …
18-1229 In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for damage…
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
18-8452 In Re Harold B. Mason 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus standing takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment in the lower court proceedings
18-1196 In Re William Kinney, et ux. 2019-03-14 Denied 14th-amendment all-writs-act civil-rights district-court-discretion district-court-jurisdiction due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fdcpa fdcpa-claim federal-jurisdiction mandamus state-court-jurisdiction state-court-proceedings stay-of-proceedings title-42-claims Challenging dismissal of FDCPA and civil rights claims, seeking reinstatement and stay of state court proceedings
18-8249 Rickey Morgan v. Dale W. Steager, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner West Virginia 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights code-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-obligation mandamus prosecutorial-duty refund state-law state-tax-commissioner tax Does the West Virginia State Tax Commissioner Dale Steager have a legal obligation pursuant to the West Virginia Code § 11-1-5, to provide the petitio…
18-8208 In Re Donivan Diaz 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act Whether the California Supreme Court abused its discretion and/or committed plain error by failing to follow the State Bar Act, Rule 3-700(a) and depr…
18-8086 Steven Thomason v. OneWest Bank, FSB, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-act-fha loan-servicer mandamus mortgage-loan-modification mortgage-modification real-estate-transaction right-of-action standing Whether a Mortgage Loan Modification from a plaintiff's loan servicer is sufficiently related to the meaning of 'real estate-related transaction' unde…
18-7790 Marcus Simpson v. Ethna Cooper, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton County, Ohio Ohio 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process judicial-usurpation mandamus perjury trial-court-judgment void-judgment Whether perjury amounts to a judicial usurpation of power, rendering the trial court's judgment void, therefore mandamus (Lie)
18-7831 Curt Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing Should a circuit court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to correct an illegal sentence after the petitioner has been barred from that co…
18-1014 In Re Rex E. Russo 2019-02-06 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-right due-process equal-protection equal-rights florida-constitution judicial-administration judicial-records judicial-transparency mandamus public-records public-records-access public-records-access,judicial-transparency,equal-protection,due-process,mandamus,florida-constitution
18-7749 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy Florida 2019-02-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay denied Petitioner access for certiorari review
18-982 In Re Beverly L. Hennager, et al. 2019-01-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection limited-partnership mandamus non-discretionary-action pre-filing-injunction property property-rights sanctions standing writ-of-appeal Whether the enforcement of an appellant mandate affirming the plain, unambiguous language of a previous order compelling specific non-discretionary ac…
18-7583 In Re Bill Herron 2019-01-28 Dismissed IFP adjudicatory-procedures administrative-procedure deprivation-of-property due-process judicial-review logan-v-zimmerman-brush-co mandamus missouri-administrative-procedure-act missouri-law property-interest property-rights Where the District Court has repeatedly refused to address or adjudicate claims raised by a party, in this and other cases filed by Missouri Prisoner'…
18-973 In Re Lee Chatfield, et al. 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-court due-process emergency-motion equal-protection gerrymandering judicial-discretion judicial-economy jurisdictional-issues mandamus standing stay-of-trial Did the three-judge panel abuse its discretion in denying a stay of trial pending resolution of related cases
18-7090 Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhauf v. Holder, Bankers Life and Casualty Co.…
18-705 Wendell Griffen, Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pulaski County, Arkansas v. John Dan Kemp, Chief Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-1983 due-process jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-final-order standing writ-of-mandamus Whether the All Writs Act grants the circuit courts jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus to review on the merits a district court's non-final denia…
18-6628 Cornelius Clemons v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio Ohio 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-prop civil-rights due-process mandamus ohio-constitution property takings Whether Governor John Kasich has a ministerial duty to provide Cornelius Clemons with the security of his $4,986,752.00 monetary property conveyed to …
18-6630 In Re Taquan Gullett 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus ministerial-duties standing Whether the lower court erred in refusing to correct the case title misnomer and dismissing the habeas corpus petition
18-557 Department of Commerce, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-decisionmaker agency-officials discovery executive-branch executive-discretion judicial-review mandamus mental-processes standing Whether a district court may order discovery outside the administrative record to probe the mental processes of an agency decisionmaker when there is …
18-6449 In Re Hakeem Sultaana 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ extraordinary-writs federal-courts habeas-corpus mandamus relief-sought standing statutory-provisions Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's extraordinary writ of mandamus and prohibition
18-6076 Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by the state court's denial of his petition for a writ of …
18-6018 In Re Gary Ivan Terry 2018-09-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion…
18-5968 In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-Cantu 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing federal-appeals-court federal-courts federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus mandate mandate-stay resentencing sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence vacated-sentence writ-of-mandamus Whether a federal court of appeals can stay its mandate for more than five months, thereby keeping a federal prisoner in jail under an unreasonable se…
18-314 Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U…
18-5850 In Re Christopher D. Schneider 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights courthouse-access discrimination due-process economic-status first-amendment judicial-bias mandamus retaliation self-censorship standing Does Mr. Schneider have a right to both the appearance and actuality of neutrality; and does mandamus lie when that fundamental right is going to be m…
18-5719 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna C. Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment arizona-constitution arizona-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers mandamus speedy-trial standing Whether Respondent Judge denied Petitioner Bartlett's Motion to Dismiss the lack of speedy trial in violation of the 6th Amendment to the United State…
18-5575 In Re Allah 2018-08-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review malicious-prosecution mandamus standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts failed to properly dismiss the malicious prosecution against him, i…
18-5551 In Re Rafael A. Joseph 2018-08-10 Dismissed IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight jurisdiction malfeasance mandamus nonfeasance oversight Can the Circuit & Court of Appeals Executive refuse to refer my petition for reconsideration; Clerk Court of Appeals refuse to docket my motions to sh…
18-173 Xiu Jian Sun v. Oren L. Zeve Second Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process ecclesiastical-claim ecclesiastical-dispute first-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-notice legal-promise mandamus messenger-claim property-rights religious-communication religious-freedom spiritual-testimony standing Whether the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its servant Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam, have standing to challenge the dismissal of …
18-123 In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing
18-5262 In Re Edward McLaughlin 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau…
24A531 Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. California Presumed Complete Relisted (2) due-process judicial-review mandamus petition-denial pro-se state-court Whether a state court's summary denial of a pro se litigant's petition for mandamus and prohibition without substantive review violates due process an…