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24-6975 Samuel T. Whatley, II v. T-Mobile USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP federal-judges governmental-immunity misconduct privacy-rights property-rights stock-equities Are private entities invested with stock equities of assigned federal judges exceeding $10,000 subject to federal law prosecutions, review, lawsuits, …
24-870 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p…
24A472 Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2024-11-12 Presumed Complete but-for-cause certificate-of-innocence exoneree federal-prosecution misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether a federal exoneree's misconduct must be a but-for or proximate cause of prosecution to be disqualified from obtaining a certificate of innocen…
23-7603 Anthony Tyrone Brown v. James Corrigan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-determination civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel-of-choice due-process fraud fraud-statute judicial-review misconduct transcript Whether the court committed fraud on the court when it changed the trial transcripts of the petitioner's case without notice to counsel and the petiti…
23A669 Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement misconduct video-evidence Whether a law enforcement officer's alleged manipulation of video evidence to misrepresent an incident constitutes a violation of a criminal defendant…
23-6058 Liberty Anne Walden v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-error misconduct plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion trial-procedure witness-credibility Did the trial court plainly error by allowing Dr. Mohr to testify outside the realm of her expertise thereby providing testimony to the ultimate issue…
23-533 Jack Jordan v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure due-process federal-appeals fraud judicial-misconduct misconduct rule-60-motion standing summary-action summary-affirmance Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals may preclude appellant's filing of any brief and presentation of any oral argument
23-5122 Ronny Deviod Walker v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts immunity impeachment judicial-misconduct misconduct pro-se-pleading procedural-rules standing Who may be complained about: where to file a complaint?
22-7857 Balwinder Singh v. California California 2023-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud misconduct Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated by the alleged fraud and misconduct in the criminal proceedings
22-7649 Roderick Lamar Williams, aka Rox v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling fraud misconduct Whether the lower courts wrongfully and unjustly protected parties that engaged in fraud on the court, misrepresentation and misconduct by refusing to…
22-6765 Mamberto Real v. Michael Perry Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure court-cameras due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review misconduct review witness witness-misconduct Whether the district court failed to review the court's building cameras after the facts, to verify a misconduct from a defense's witness; thereby vio…
22-745 Gilbert Roman v. Fire Life Safety America, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct misconduct obstruction-of-justice pro-se pro-se-rights Did 1 or more court clerks cause obstruction-of-justice, deny-due-process, acted-with-misconduct, deny-14th-amendment-rights, deny-7th-amendment-right…
22-6528 Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and IAC caused cons…
22-6480 Anthony Rohlf v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights claim-definition due-process federal-habeas judicial-review misconduct pro-se-petitioner successive-writ writ-of-certiorari Does the definition of the term 'Claim' given by this court in Gonzales v. Crosby still stand as the law of the land?
22-74 Allen Patterson v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-service civil-service-commission government-agency misconduct ny-statute resignation termination voluntary-resignation Is it legal for a government agency to convert an accepted voluntary resignation into a termination for misconduct?
21-7760 William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants Did the Supreme Court err in holding that the federal courts have the right and the duty to protect themselves from fraud, misrepresentation and misco…
21-7211 Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's order dismissing the plaintiff's civil complaint without considerin…
21-5606 In Re Charlene Rosa 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review misconduct standing Whether Petitioners are proper Remedy to Confirm the reach of judicial review Court to make a decision on Misconduct pending for a long period
21-155 John M. Custin v. Harold J. Wirths, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process inquisitorial-proceedings misconduct notice property-rights unemployment-benefits Does the deprivation of unemployment benefits based on a charge of 'misconduct connected to the work' when the only issue the employer disputed was 'v…
21-38 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling foia-request jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline misconduct opm-investigation subject-matter-jurisdiction want-of-service Whether the 60-day filing deadline is subject to equitable tolling
20-1404 Kenyon J. Garrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cumulative-error-doctrine due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud misconduct witness-tampering Whether the government can use direct evidence of threats, intimidation, coercion, fraud, and witness tampering to deprive a petitioner of his 5th and…
20-7458 Promila Rajput v. Tiffany Terrell, et al. Virginia 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-misconduct due-process injunctive-order judicial-discretion misconduct procedural-abuse secured-rights standing witness-tampering Whether the injunctive rulings manifest improper purpose to tamper with the petitioner presenting as a witness, diminish the petitioner's secured righ…
20-6118 Ramon Wall v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice misconduct plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Ineffective assistance of counsel prejudiced the petitioner, creating a miscarriage of justice
19-1395 Raleigh Rogers v. Discover Bank North Carolina 2020-06-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fraud misconduct misrepresentation new-trial north-carolina-rules pro-se relief-from-judgment Does 'pro se' mean 'no say' or are even pro se litigants eligible for relief from judgment and a new trial pursuant NC §14-1 Rule 60(b)(3) when courts…
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…
19-481 In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy 2019-10-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions regarding his candidacy in the 2016 and 2020-2024 elections
19-6004 Lynn Taylor v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion affidavit civil-procedure court-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion standing Did the Northern District Court abuse its discretion in not forwarding the full discovery to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals?
18-9405 John Willie Mack, Jr. v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial Was the defendant denied effective assistance of counsel?
18-8770 Martin Rugamba v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights custom-law due-process free-speech misconduct police-misconduct retaliation standing Whether the municipal police in General, and other Security agencies violate Constitutional rights in retaliation for reporting their misconduct to FB…
18-8661 Eddie Lee Jackson v. Sandy McCain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-medical-condition counsel-misconduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation misconduct procedural-error right-to-counsel suspension Whether the Petitioner was denied the right to assistance of counsel
18-8439 Richard Larry Lacey v. Oregon Oregon 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP courtroom-removal defendant-misconduct forfeiture misconduct right-to-representation self-representation sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver waiver-forfeiture Does a self-represented defendant waive or forfeit his Sixth Amendment right to representation when the defendant intentionally engages in misconduct …
18-947 Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-timeliness appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion in-camera-review judicial-misconduct misconduct procedural-rules Whether if a member of the Court of Appeals sends a party a 'racist' mailing of a court initiated letter, whether intentional or unintentional, does a…
18-7069 John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Commonwealth commit misconduct when it intentionally withheld various forms of material evidence in violation of the 14th Amendment?
18-6636 James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court al…
18-402 Anna Pezhman v. Chanel, et al. New York 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment court-denial due-process due-process-clause fraud fraud-motion judgment judgment-set-aside legal-pertinence misconduct misrepresentation motion-to-set-aside-judgment When dealing with a motion to set aside a judgment based on fraud, misconduct and misrepresentation, must a court proffer reasons for its denial or ca…
18-250 Tu Ying Chen v. Suffolk County Community College, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights court-judgment defendant-actions due-process evidence false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-review legal-standards misconduct plaintiff-claims standing wrongful-probation wrongful-termination Was there misconduct by and false evidence submitted by the Defendants?