mandamus-relief

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25-6065 Rashid El Malik v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-delay due-process extraordinary-relief judicial-review mandamus-relief veterans-benefits 1. Whether a catastrophically disabled veteran facing imminent, life threatening harm is entitled to mandamus relief under Martin v. O'Rourke when a g…
25-5736 In Re Ahmad Aljindi 2025-09-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process federal-circuit judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief obstruction-of-justice 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, led by Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore, violate its mandatory duty under FRAP 27 and …
25-5715 In Re Daniel E. Hall 2025-09-24 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act judicial-conduct judicial-review magistrate-appointment mandamus-relief misconduct-complaints 1. Whether the Judicial Council of the First Circuit may disregard mandatory provisions of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act and the Rules for …
24-6858 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-03-26 Denied IFP intrajudicial-claims judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus-relief objective-observer statutory-interpretation Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals applied an overly vague and undefined standard for determining judicial bias and mandamus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 4…
24-6498 In Re Thomas Sawyer 2025-02-07 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court filing-fee judicial-review mandamus-relief procedural-rules Whether the 7th Circuit improperly denied a second appellate filing fee and mandamus relief for a petitioner seeking to challenge a lower court's ruli…
24A731 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete administrative-tribunal due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict mandamus-relief whistleblower-protection Whether the overlapping jurisdictional conflicts between federal courts and administrative tribunals violate due process and improperly obstruct judic…
24-685 Susan McBrine, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Amici (1) camp-lejeune justice-act mandamus-relief statutory-right trial-by-jury united-states Whether plaintiffs who bring actions against the United States under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 have the right to trial by jury
24-6019 In Re Anthony Norman 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights court-obstruction federal-review judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief Whether the Supreme Court should issue a permanent injunction against state courts that have created an absolute bar to seeking Supreme Court review t…
24-5978 In Re Marquis Deron Heard 2024-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion federal-prisoner mandamus-relief pro-se-petition search-warrant sixth-circuit Whether a federal prisoner's multiple appeals of a 2255 motion and unresolved search warrant issues constitute grounds for mandamus relief
24-514 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus-relief military-detention whistleblower-protection Whether the D.C. Circuit improperly bifurcated the petitioner's joint submissions and restricted access to judicial review for a military detainee's h…
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…
23-5415 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 …
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 …
22-350 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2022-10-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief procedural-irregularities recusal recusal-issues standing Do the issues presented constitute exceptional circumstances warranting a Writ of Mandamus?
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?
21-1345 Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied 28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation Does a lawyer have the statutory right to appeal a final order suspending the lawyer from the practice of law?
21-6780 In Re Lori Sklar 2022-01-07 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief retroactive-disqualification Whether the California Supreme Court should be ordered to grant an appellate review do-over when due-process compels a permanently-removed-judge's ret…
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
20-1035 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…
20-793 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…
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?
18-1582 Bryan A. Krumm, CNP v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia 2019-06-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law cannabis-scheduling controlled-substances controlled-substances-act dea federalism mandamus-relief medical-marijuana medical-use scheduling witness-testimony Can the Attorney General and DEA continue Schedule 1 placement of Cannabis now that it has 'accepted medical use' in 33 States, the District of Columb…
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…
18-1484 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
18-1402 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…
18-1180 New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce a Medicare Administrative Law Judge's order