ministerial-duty

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6708 In Re Allen Watkins 2026-02-04 Pending IFP civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion ministerial-duty ultra-vires 1. Whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act of February 12, 1925, ch. 213, § 9, 43 Stat. 883, the clerk and judge of a United States District Court …
25-671 In Re Mark Christopher Tracy 2025-12-09 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry…
25A622 Allen Watkins v. United States District Court for District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2025-11-25 Application arbitration-award coram-non-judice federal-arbitration-act judicial-review ministerial-duty statutory-mandate Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires a district court to confirm an arbitration award when no timely motion to vacate, modify, or correct has …
24-987 Kingston Kohr, LLC v. City of Irvine, California California 2025-03-14 Denied Response Waived demolition-permit due-process local-government ministerial-duty property-rights takings-clause Whether property owners have due process rights to conduct self-demolition or if local government has sole authority, and whether leveraging a demolit…
22-7107 In Re Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. 2023-03-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty missouri-supreme-court res-judicata section-1983 standing state-actor Whether the state's highest court's denial of mandamus relief based on an unconstitutional unwritten policy violated the petitioner's civil rights
22-911 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. California 2023-03-17 Denied administrative-law administrative-regulation agency-discretion chevron-deference civil-rights due-process judicial-review ministerial-duty prisoner-rights property-rights statutory-authority Did the California corrections agency exceed the bounds of its statutory authority?
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…
21-1206 John H. Page v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States District of Columbia 2022-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights congress congressional-representation constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process ministerial-duty presidential-powers representation standing state-representation tenth-amendment Can a federal court dismiss a case based on lack of jurisdiction over relief that wasn't requested, despite it being empowered to order POTUS to corre…
21-1207 Joel D. Klenck v. Liberty University, et al. Florida 2022-03-03 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-capricious 21-1206" arbitrary-capricious-standard congressional-representation constitutional-rights district-of-columbia final-judgments historic-preservation international-treaties judicial-review ministerial-duty state-court-review state-courts state-representation tenth-amendment terrorism terrorism-context Whether a federal court can dismiss a case for lac Whether and to what degree does this Court have the ability to review final judgments of state courts when the case involves international treaties re…
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 …
20-6015 Lance R. Martin v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2020-10-14 Denied IFP administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-rights documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty state-court-procedure state-courts writ-of-mandate Whether the state courts wrongly misconstrued the writ of mandate for a habeas petition and denied the petitioner a hearing on his substantial claim f…
20-23 Dale Hartkemeyer, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied free-exercise last-rites ministerial-duty pandemic pandemic-execution prisoner prisoner-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom RFRA Where a priest has a sacred religious duty to minister last rites to a prisoner under his pastoral care, does scheduling the prisoner's execution duri…
19-6563 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process federal-courts in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity ministerial-duty standing state-court Whether federal citizens have standing when federal courts ignore their claims
18-5590 Veronica M. Johnson v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-act judicial-immunity ministerial-duty spousal-support spousal-support-judgment Is judicial immunity an affirmative defense that must be pleaded and proved by a judge when Plaintiff files a clearly stated, sufficiently documented …