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25-6580 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Human Resources-Public Works, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process motion-to-dismiss notice-and-opportunity pro-se summary-judgment When considering a Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon which Relief May be Granted Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(…
25-778 Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh…
25-702 CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis…
25-6328 Talitha Lacey Combs, aka Talitha Lacey Randall v. Urban Restaurant Group, et al. Oregon 2025-12-09 Pending IFP constitutional-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss pro-se-status whistleblower-retaliation (1) When the bias, prejudice, or partiality against a pro se Plaintiff is based on either her pro se status or her previous whistleblowing activities …
25-6307 Carl Sidney Race v. Montana State Prison Infirmary, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court magistrate-authority motion-to-dismiss personal-involvement rule-12b6 1. Does a U.S. Magistrate Judge have the authority under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) to supersede an Order of the Article III U.S. District Court Judge that de…
25-5966 Mally Gage v. Mayo Clinic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-act due-process motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant religious-accommodation title-vii 1) Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, can employers demand statements of apostasy as well as set restrictions on how an employee can c…
25-359 Rambod Sotoodeh, et al. v. City of South El-Monte, California, a Municipal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure local-rules merits-consideration motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 Whether Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 83(a)(1) require a district court to consider the merits of an unopposed Rule 12(b)(6) motion to…
25-346 Geoffrey M. Young v. Morgan McGarvey Kentucky 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards state-court-review Whether Kentucky state and federal courts can dismiss civil complaints before discovery without applying the Twombly standard of review
25-335 Lee Michael Tomko v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived contract-claims federal-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards pro-se tucker-act Whether the lower courts correctly applied motion to dismiss standards when evaluating the plausibility of a pro se plaintiff's contract claims agains…
25-5678 Thomas Jarrell Shoffner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law district-court-procedure firearms-regulation motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court Erred in Denying Appellant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment on the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1)
25-5379 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-17 Denied Amici (2)IFP discrimination-standard habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss section-1983-challenge statistical-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard of proof for statistical evidence of discrimination conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and whether such evidence can support …
25-94 Angela DeBose v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-error district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-judge motion-to-dismiss rule-65 Whether the district court properly dismissed and closed the case if the case was filed in the wrong court, rather than transfer it to the correct cou…
25-69 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied appellate-review circuit-court due-process equal-protection legal-precedent motion-to-dismiss Whether the Eleventh Circuit's claim of forfeited appellate rights and refusal to conduct de novo review violated due process and equal protection, cr…
25A36 Jacqusyn Zechariah Grubb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-09 Presumed Complete 922(g)(8) as-applied-challenge domestic-violence-restraining-order facial-challenge motion-to-dismiss second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment as applied to individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders, or whether such…
24A1292 Terry Duane Qualls v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-27 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal district-court eighth-circuit motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal rehearing Whether a criminal defendant's appeal can be dismissed for procedural reasons without addressing the underlying merits of the case
24-1229 Denise A. Canzoneri v. Prescott Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied clearly-established factual-allegations first-amendment light-most-favorable motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity At the motion to dismiss stage, can a court disregard the 'light most favorable' standard and require the plaintiff to prove her rights were 'clearly …
24-1219 Dora L. Adkins v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff Whether the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order and whether the district court properly denied Adkins' motions for leave to fi…
24-1195 In Re Symon Mandawala 2025-05-22 Denied civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) service-of-process sua-sponte Whether a district court itself can invoke a motion to dismiss sua sponte under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a civil case …
24-7211 Jeffrey Spivack v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal May a Court of Appeals disregard the scope of an appeal when the appellant has clearly articulated the scope and nature of the appeal by identifying t…
24A1096 Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2025-05-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii Whether Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act preclude dismissal of an employment discrimination claim by a federal employee based on the district cour…
24-1096 James William Hall v. Dorain Davis, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-extension default-judgment motion-to-dismiss summons-service Whether a judge can grant an extension for a defendant who has already violated the summons timeline in a civil action and failed to respond within th…
24-1052 Open Justice Baltimore, et al. v. Baltimore City Law Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived alternative-explanation burden-of-proof civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss plausibility-threshold pleading-standard Whether a defendant who offers a competing alternative explanation for conduct alleged in a plaintiff's complaint bears the burden of showing that the…
24-996 Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. Third Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii Whether an employee's religious belief under Title VII is unprotected if a court determines it would create a 'blanket privilege' or is broadly protec…
24-895 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss prima-facie-case title-vii Whether the district court and circuit court improperly dismissed Qiu's Title VII complaint by declining to consider her supporting email evidence and…
24-896 Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-law equal-protection motion-to-dismiss racial-discrimination title-vii Whether a district court can dismiss a Title VII discrimination complaint alleging direct racial discrimination without considering the plaintiff's su…
24-6557 Steve Rosado v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-enticement criminal-statute government-overreach motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation trial-court-error Whether the trial court committed clear error in denying the motion to dismiss the indictment for attempted enticement under 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)
24-6253 Victor Clayton v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement rule-12 sex-trafficking Did the district court err in denying defendant's motion to dismiss under Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) for sex trafficking charges and did the …
24-6111 Junior Standly Martinez-Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment judicial-review legal-error motion-to-dismiss Whether the denial of Mr. Martinez's motion to dismiss the indictment was erroneous
24-5895 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss relief-from-judgment rule-60-motion Whether a District Court abused its discretion by dismissing a Rule 60(b)(4) Motion for Relief from Judgment alleging a due process violation
24-5789 Saretta Mildred Gross v. United Parcel Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collective-bargaining employment-discrimination jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff sexual-harassment Whether a district court errs in dismissing a pro se plaintiff's complaint without fully considering incorporated earlier complaints and allegations o…
24-5642 Nawaz Ahmed v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-26 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss voluntary-dismissal Whether the Court of Appeals lacks appellate jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case 21-3542 due to district court orders lacking finality and failure …
24-5096 Steven C. Levi v. Anchorage School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights dismissal due-process interrogatories judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Can a case be dismissed without allowing Discovery and Interrogators?
24-30 John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process employment-law federal-rules motion-to-dismiss plausibility plausibility-requirement pleading-standards pleadings When are pleadings sufficient to state a claim under Iqbal/Twombly standards?
23-7677 Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling rejecting a person's right to a due process evidentiary hearing conflicts with the Due Process and Equal Protection…
23-1238 Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder v. Austin Peay State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-state-law employment-law hostile-work-environment motion-to-amend motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading reasonable-person retaliation retaliation-claim Whether Petitioner's claim for retaliation required her to prove she suffered severe or pervasive conduct by her supervisor rather than conduct which …
23-7492 Trezith Rashad Smart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP federal-rules-of-evidence findings fourth-circuit-court judicial-error motion-to-dismiss prior-inconsistent-statement speedy-trial-act witness-impeachment zedner-v-united-states whether-the-fourth-circuit-appellate-court-commit-clear-or-plain-error
23-7502 Kevin Day v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4a1.3(b) criminal-history district-court-discretion downward-departure fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence Whether the District Court abused its discretion by failing to give a variance sentence and shorter incarceration period
23-7486 Edgar Vazquez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing motion-to-dismiss motion-to-suppress standard-of-review Whether certiorari review should be granted
23A1015 Christina Brown v. Amazon Headquarters, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure corporate-defendant motion-to-dismiss pro-se wrongful-death Whether a pro se plaintiff can successfully challenge a district court's dismissal of a wrongful death action against a corporate defendant after deni…
23-7353 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim federal-rules in-forma-pauperis motion-to-dismiss res-judicata sovereign-immunity Whether the trial court erred in dismissing the complaint
23-1178 First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment against a party without allowing that party to conduct discovery
23-7336 Weili Cao-Bossa v. New York State Department of Labor Second Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process factual-errors genuine-issues judicial-discretion legal-errors legal-merits motion-to-dismiss procedural-technicality summary-judgment Can summary judgment be granted solely on failure to respond timely or not in detail?
23-7286 Francis Arthur v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment
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…
23-1040 Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied appeal civil-procedure federal-statute judgment-renewal motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit renewal-of-judgment state-law Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in granting Respondent's Motion to Dismiss Appeal by failing to consider Petitioner's…
23-1025 D.L. Markham DDS, MSD, Incorporated 401(K) Plan, et al. v. Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response Waived 29-usc-1106 29-usc-1108 amendment-opportunity erisa-plan exemptions judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss prohibited-transactions service-provider statutory-prohibition What transactions between an ERISA plan and a service provider are prohibited by 29 U.S.C. § 1106(a)(1)(C) unless exempt under 29 U.S.C. § 1108(b)(2)?
23-7007 Howard T. Tyson, Sr. v. Kris Y. Lee, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-orders judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings pro-se-appellant standing why-do-courts-fail-to-follow-supreme-court-opinions-on-pro-se-motions-to-dismiss
23-6613 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rules due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss national-interest north-carolina standing Did the NCCOA and NCSC improperly deny appellant's motions or was it a violation of appellate rules and of national interest to court litigation and c…
23-6614 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss standing state-law supreme-court Whether NCCOA and NCSC improperly denied appellant's motions and orders, and whether the orders violate constitutional rights and state appellate rule…
23A684 Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete civil-procedure federal-courts motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard rule-12b6 sufficiently-alleged Whether a district court's dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim can be challenged when the court allegedly applied an improperly…
23-780 Eugene Misquith v. St. Mary's Medical Center Florida 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure florida-constitution florida-statute judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-decline legal-process motion-to-dismiss standing Did the Supreme Court of Florida invalidate the law itself when it did not assume mandatory jurisdiction?
23A594 Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default Whether a pro se litigant's Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States can be dismissed with prejudice when the plaintiff fails to time…
23-6148 Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge
23-515 Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Utrecht-America Holdings, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-rights rule-12(b)(6) rule-56 summary-judgment Is the Seventh Circuit correct that a district court may 'effectively grant summary judgment' under Rule 56 without providing plaintiffs their procedu…
23-463 Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy Whether a New York law requiring speakers to obtain a license before offering talk therapy pertaining to 'disabilit[ies], problem[s], or disorder[s] o…
23-459 Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder…
23-412 Seneca Lovett Engel v. Derek Engel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-statute conspiracy-claim due-process federal-rules-procedure iqbal judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards twombly Whether claims for conspiracy under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(8) and § 1983 are sufficiently stated under Fed. Rule Civ. P. 8(2)
23-378 Joel Douglas, et al. v. David Hirshon, et al. First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied civil-procedure district-court extrinsic-documents extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings public-records standard-of-review Whether the District Court was required to consider extrinsic documents that were public records or not directly challenged by anyone attached to the …
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…
23-5564 Trent Steven Griffin, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jury-trial motion-to-dismiss procedural-misconduct standing Whether a judge had the power or authority to take certain actions in a civil rights case
23-5342 Roger Rachon Cooley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights four-factor-balancing-test judicial-review motion-to-dismiss negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the lower courts err in analyzing the four factor balancing test outlined in Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, (1972) when they denied Mr. Cooley's m…
23-5270 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss Whether a court can verbally deny a motion to dismiss on Double Jeopardy grounds without a full record
22-7811 Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 60b-motion abuse-of-discretion affirmative-defense appellate-review full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss plea-to-the-jurisdiction res-judicata Whether an unauthenticated judgment has res judicata effects as an affirmative defense
22-7761 Aaron Keith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection
22-7748 Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure default-judgment discretionary-power evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review motion-to-dismiss rico rico-statute Whether it is an abuse of discretion to exclude relevant evidence in a RICO case
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-7441 Colette Claire Savage v. Mark Savage Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-corruption judicial-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Are motions to dismiss used administratively to hastily dispose of meritorious and government corruption cases especially targeting pro se litigants?
22-959 Gwendolyn Carswell, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of the Estate of Gary Valdez Lynch, III and Gary Valdez Lynch, III's Heirs at Law v. George A. Camp, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discovery immediate-appeal interlocutory-appeal motion-to-dismiss procedural-law qualified-immunity standing Whether a district court can defer ruling on qualified immunity at the motion-to-dismiss stage without triggering an immediate appeal
22-689 Rochelle Y. Driessen v. Barclays Bank, PLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied 12(b)(6) 12b6-motion circuit-court-opinion civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent dismissal frivolous frivolous-complaint judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing Whether the 11th Circuit entered the incorrect decision
22-610 Warren Adam Taylor v. Augusta-Richmond County Consolidated Commissioners, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied case-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss public-interest qualified-immunity standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified
22-6393 Xavier Milton Earquhart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review mandate-rule motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the court have an obligation to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction exists as a preliminary matter?
22-573 BRFHH Shreveport LLC, dba University Health Shreveport v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, dba Willis-Knighton Health System Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-law circuit-split motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-12(b)(6) section-1 sherman-act twombly May a Section 1 claim be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), consistent with Twombly, based on evidence suggesting an alternative, non-con…
22-456 Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver Whether a complaint that states a claim may be dismissed on the grounds that a plaintiff waived an argument against dismissal by failing to make the a…
22-5965 Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. Texas 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause Was the petitioner's federal rights violated when Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. 534 U.S. 506, 122 S. Ct. 992 (2002) held that a plaintiff does not need …
22-5618 Ronald J. Brooking v. Prince George's County, Maryland Maryland 2022-09-20 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-court civil-procedure court-order due-process judicial-review legal-error maryland-law maryland-rules motion-to-dismiss relief-denial standing supreme-court Did the Circuit Court err when it denied the Petitioner's motion to dismiss under the Maryland Rules of Civil Procedure?
22-5395 Michael Gorrio v. Correctional Officer Francis, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rico civil-rico-conspiracy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review well-pleaded-facts Did the appellant's amended complaint ECF 43 present substantial 'well pleaded facts,' as to plausibly state a claim and support the claim to overcome…
22-112 Simonetta Vespucci Sutton v. Mountain High Investments, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judgment-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss motion-to-remand removal standing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to remand
22-24 Vincent Gabriel v. El Paso Combined Courts, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-immunity motion-to-dismiss prejudice prosecutorial-immunity standing Is it appropriate for a trial court to dismiss a complaint with prejudice prior to allowing an individual at least one opportunity to amend the compla…
22-16 Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) Associates, LLC v. Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. Second Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal inference-drawing inferences judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleadings rule-12b6 state-of-mind twombly-standard Whether the courts below deviated from and disregarded this Court's holding in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly
22-5041 Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia Talley Dunn Texas 2022-07-06 Dismissed IFP attorney-fees bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fraud motion-to-dismiss texas-rules-civil-procedure trial-court-judgment void-judgment want-of-prosecution Whether the trial court judgments were the result of fraud, and are thus void; and whether such a judgment violates Due Process
21-8022 William Dew v. S. Columbia Terrace, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process factual-deficiencies motion-to-dismiss neitzke-v-williams pleadings pro-se sua-sponte Whether the district court may dismiss a non-prisoner pro se complaint sua sponte basis of factual deficiencies in complaint or must wait until defend…
21-7843 Tina Marie Bradford v. Los Angeles County Office of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process intermediate-scrutiny motion-practice motion-to-dismiss oral-argument procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process trial-by-jury Whether Due Process Clause entitlement to trial by jury, oral argument and hearing were denied by overuse of Motion Practice to Dismiss
21-1365 Moulay Tidiri v. The Board of Regents, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fabricated-document fraud judicial-review motion-to-dismiss post-tenure-review standing Whether the federal circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaints under FRCP 12(b)(6) despite evidence that the 2012 Post-Tenure Review Repo…
21-7534 Alan L. Gallagher v. Capella Education Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-capricious civil-procedure contract contract-disclaimer contract-elements educational-malpractice failure-to-state-cause-of-action motion-to-dismiss reciprocity standing university-immunity Are elements of contract properly pled (to survive motion to dismiss for failure to state cause of action)?
21-1314 United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A)
21-1209 Jennifer B. Miller v. The Bank of New York Mellon, Successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure free-speech judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing certain counts under Rule 12(b)(6)
21-1082 Tarresse Leonard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied criminal-procedure essential-element harmless-error indictment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss structural-error Whether the erroneous denial of a timely raised motion to dismiss an indictment omitting an essential element is structural error requiring dismissal …
21-7027 Raul Mendez v. Ada County, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection-clause frcp-12(b)(6) mandatory-services motion-to-dismiss pro-se property-tax-lien standing Is a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) a ruling on a question of law? If so, is this Motion inappropriate when applied to Pro se complaints?
21-1018 Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly be a disability covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendments A…
21-6906 Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure de-novo-review employer-capacity erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty motion-to-dismiss plan-amendment plan-sponsor settlors-function two-hats-doctrine Question not identified
21-864 Geoffrey M. Young v. Garland "Andy" Barr Kentucky 2021-12-10 Denied ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process judicial-review kentucky-law kentucky-revised-statutes motion-to-dismiss motion-to-set-aside standing statutory-interpretation Whether a trial court in Kentucky may dismiss a civil action for failure to state a claim without construing the pleading in the light most favorable …
21-778 Selina Marie Ramirez, et al. v. Jeremias Guadarrama, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (16) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force mental-health-crisis motion-to-dismiss police-conduct qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment Whether plaintiffs must plead an available alternative that 'would have' avoided harm to defeat a motion to dismiss in a Section 1983 excessive-force …
21-6094 Jabari J. Johnson v. Lewis T. Babcock, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process frcp-12(c) motion-to-dismiss standing Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying the plaintiff's motion under FRCP 12(c)?
21-599 Margaret L. Kinney v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-court chapter-13 completion-discharge debtor-rights discharge modification motion-to-dismiss payment plan plan-modification Should a bankruptcy court deny a motion to dismiss and/or grant a completion discharge when there remains a shortfall that the debtor is willing and a…
21-595 Bruce Alexander v. Anheuser-Busch, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process employee-contacts federal-rules in-rem-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss personal-jurisdiction sales subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Western District Court err in its rulings on personal-jurisdiction, in-rem-jurisdiction, due-process, civil-procedure, sales, and employee-con…
21-5661 Raymond Moya v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2
21-303 Vignaraj Munsami Pillay v. Public Storage Inc. Florida 2021-08-30 Denied Relisted (2) breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-liability due-process evidence exculpatory-clause motion-to-dismiss negligence property-damage standing tenant-rights Can a motion to dismiss a complaint using citations out of context from distinguishable cases,polished and crafted , and completely unrelated to this …
21-280 Amy Harrison v. Kevin Lilly, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure frcp-12(b)(6) iqbal judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleadings pleadings-stage standard-of-review twombly Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals failed to follow the well-settled standard for a motion to dismiss under FRCP 12(b)(6) and dismiss…
21-157 Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation Second Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of…
20-1818 Ashlee R. Hull, Individually and in Her Capacity as Co-Executrix of the Estate of John Edward Hull, Sr., et al. v. Muhammed Samar Nasher-Alneam, et al. West Virginia 2021-06-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights court-precedent due-process motion-to-dismiss standing suicide suicide-litigation wrongful-death Whether the denial of a person's right to pursue litigation based solely on the fact that the person died via suicide is a violation of the 14th-Amend…
20-1724 David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. New York 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-law cross-motion delegation-clause motion-to-dismiss res-judicata Whether the lower courts should have granted the petitioner's cross-motion to compel arbitration of arbitrability and denied or stayed the respondents…
20-8283 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss standing Whether Petitioner Amended Complaint under 42 USC 1983 Merit Adjudication Proceeding is Subject to Dismissal
20-1713 Symon B. Mandawala v. Era Living, LLC, et al. Washington 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1985 attorney-client-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss service-of-process As of Matter of Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment right of the U.S constitution: (1) (a) while racially civil rights action is pending, wi…
20-8144 Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing There has been no redress of my grievance
20-8145 Tamara Rouhi v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure injustice judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing There has been no redress of my grievance
20-8148 Mike Vigil v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Ninth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss open-court-hearing pleading-defects rule-15-amendment sovereign-immunity standing summary-affirmance Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's request for an open court hearing under the Seventh Amendment and local rules
20-1615 Colin Masseau, et ux. v. Guy Henning, et al. Vermont 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-10(a)(3)&(4) arbitration-review contract-of-adhesion due-process federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce manifest-disregard manifest-disregard-of-law motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading Does a court have the right to review an arbitrator's decision for manifest disregard of the law?
20-1602 Cornelius S. Berry, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response Waived adjournment amend-complaint case-adjournment circuit-court-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
20-1577 John S. Barth v. Adam Buckley, et al. First Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
20-7726 James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation whether-the-petitioner's-sentence-was-lawful
20-7602 Bienvenido Rodriguez, Jr. v. Ulli Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-representation judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process settlement-agreement standing Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in summarily affirming the district court's order, dismissing plaintiff Rodriguez's a…
20-7281 Michael J. Wright v. Mario Cardenas, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-a-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-requirements rule-interpretation summary-judgment Proper-Procedure-for-Defenses-under-Rule-12
20-7005 Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal Whether the Court of Appeals erred as a matter of law in allowing the district court to summarily dismiss the petitioner's motion to reopen the case p…
20-1036 Robert V. Bolinske v. Supreme Court of North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived amendment-of-pleadings civil-procedure due-process first-amendment motion-to-dismiss rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing younger-abstention Did the lower courts err in refusing to allow Appellant Bolinske to amend his complaint?
20-7001 Aaron J. Bressi v. Jeffrey Brennen, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-29 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-rules free-speech judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standards standing How does this Amended Complaint not comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
20-6779 Leon Bright v. Angel Didios Florida 2021-01-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice Whether Defendants discriminated against Petitioner and deprived him of Equal Protection and Due Process
20-894 Barbara Andersen v. Village of Glenview, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure due-process motion-to-dismiss motion-to-strike standing summary-judgment trial-court Whether the trial court properly disregarded Andersen's Motion to Strike relative to the Motions to Dismiss filed by the Respondents
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether Escobar overruled or modified the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard for Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss in False Claims Act cases
20-6256 Elet Valentine v. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied IFP amendment civil-procedure dismissal federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer law-of-the-case motion-to-dismiss service-of-process Question not identified
20-6167 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1653 arbitration-award civil-procedure compensatory-damages declaratory-relief federal-circuit federal-circuit-court henry-schein motion-to-dismiss standing summary-affirmance Whether the unanimous decision in Henry Schein, Inc., et al. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. that an arbitration award is not a cause of action but a fa…
20-6157 Pedro Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-dismiss prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Did the district court prejudicially err denying petitioner's motion to dismiss based on Sixth Amendment violations?
20-428 Horacio Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied arbitration-clause breach-of-contract choice-of-forum choice-of-law commercial-arbitration commercial-contract contract-validity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver motion-to-dismiss Whether the proper procedure for a district court to follow in FSIA breach of contract cases is to apply the FSIA to avoid converting a Motion to Dism…
20-431 John L. Corrigan, Sr. v. Grant County, Washington, et al. Washington 2020-10-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte summary-judgment Was Corrigan's U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process violated?
20-373 Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to argue that the behavior of the Commission on Judicia…
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…
20-5550 Robert Kelvin Lindbloom v. Manatee County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights false-evidence legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss perjury qualified-immunity standing Do specific and particular allegations of perjury and submitting false evidence overcome a presumption of qualified immunity in a Motion to Dismiss?
20-208 Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. Ethan Volungis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment civil-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure leave-to-amend motion-to-dismiss represented-plaintiff rule-15 sua-sponte Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) requires district courts to grant plaintiffs represented by counsel leave to amend their complaint sua s…
20-201 Debe Olson v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure class-action due-process equitable-tolling motion-to-dismiss notice rule-23 rule-23(e)-frcp Whether the trial court improperly granted a Motion to Dismiss the putative class because there was no notice to the putative class and therefore no r…
19-1397 Michele Gray v. Department of Justice Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-rules forma-pauperis improper-service judicial-procedure lower-court-decision motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Can a party request extended time to file a petition for Writ of Certiorari within 60 days of the lower court decision
19-8616 Anthony Helton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss?
19-8602 Eugene Washington v. Santa Rita Jail Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP case-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-order due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing supreme-court-procedure supreme-court-procedures Was the District Court following proper Supreme Court procedures and case law when they issued their final order on August 7th, 2019 in violation of P…
19-1320 Veronica M. Johnson v. Rock Solid Janitorial, Inc., et al. Virginia 2020-05-29 Denied appeal civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-to-dismiss remand standing Whether the second Judge who presided in Plaintiffs civil case violated the Constitution by denying Plaintiff's demand for a jury trial, again, after …
19-8408 Stanley West McPherson v. Tompkins Trust Company, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error motion-to-dismiss pretrial-procedures procedural-rules scheduling-conference standing summary-judgment Whether the United States Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles erred and violated in failure and refuse to give petitioner a scheduled conference
19-1230 Bobby Knight v. Chenega Security, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law dismissal due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigation qui-tam qui-tam-action standard-of-review standing whistleblower-protection Did the court below fail to use an appropriate standard of review when granting all the dismissal motions without recognizing the petitioner's evidenc…
19-7620 Bradley Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss Whether Petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal on the kidnapping charge should have been granted where there was no evidence that Petitioner us…
19-7372 Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals discovery-rule due-process due-process,civil-procedure,statute-of-limitations judicial-review motion-to-dismiss notice statute-of-limitations Is the judgment of October 29, 2019, of the District of District Court of Appeals (DCCA) according to the law?
19-907 Dejenay Beckwith, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-questions due-process fifth-circuit government-conspiracy motion-to-dismiss standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming a statute of limitations defense on a motion to dismiss
19-7317 Florence R. Parker Chailla v. Navient Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied IFP anti-retaliation-law civil-rights due-process false-claims-act government-fraud higher-education-act motion-to-dismiss nonparty-intervention qui-tam relator retaliation standing Can an illegal decision be upheld that granted a nonparty' motion to dismiss after it refused to intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit filed by a pr…
19-579 William Boateng v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) rule-12(d) summary-judgment Can a Court of Appeals treat a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss as a converted motion for summary judgment under Rule 12(d) when the district court its…
19-6126 Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger-Abstention conflicts with the Supreme-Court's-decision-in-SP…
19-400 Garmin USA, Inc., et al. v. Cellspin Soft, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 35-usc-101 civil-procedure claim-construction eligibility inventive-claims inventive-concept judicial-review legal-question motion-to-dismiss patent patent-eligibility patent-law pleadings question-of-law subject-matter-eligibility Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court that can be resolved on a motion to dismiss, notwithstanding allegations in a complaint …
19-6012 Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducated P…
19-5689 Benjamin Oshea Calhoun v. Tony Villa, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-recusal judicial-supervision legal-authority motion-to-dismiss probable-cause standing warrantless-arrest Whether the Appellant court's ruling to uphold the District Court's order which granted defendants' motions to dismiss conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-5674 Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
19-225 United States, ex rel. Stephanie Strubbe, et al. v. Crawford County Memorial Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) billing civil-procedure false-claims-act medicare medicare-billing motion-to-dismiss pleading protected-activity qui-tam whistleblower Must these employees, Relators in a suit brought under the False Claims Act, have seen and therefore pled the exact content of billings sent to Medica…
19-192 Matthew Herrick v. Grindr LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense communications-decency-act failure-to-warn fraud interactive-computer-services motion-to-dismiss negligence non-publication-torts product-liability publication-torts section-230 Does the Communications Decency Act § 230(c)(1) prevent well pleaded causes of action for non-publication torts?
19-5467 Tyrone Murray v. Wanda Collins, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process factual-allegations grievances motion-to-dismiss prison prisoner-rights pro-se retaliation standing Whether a Pro Se inmate Complaint in a Conspiracy to Commit Murder lawsuit must Contain Specific facts and/or is Subject to a Heightened Pleading Stan…
19-5193 Jonathan R. Burrs v. United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-dismiss procedural-obstruction seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Does a District Court Judge engage in a Fraud Upon The Court
19-11 Lin Rountree v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure compliance dismissal district-court judicial-discretion mediation mediation-order motion-for-reconsideration motion-to-dismiss order procedural-error reconsideration standing Whether the district court erred in granting respondents' motion to dismiss when the respondents failed to comply with the district court's order to m…
18-1574 William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi…
18-1560 Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that defendants timely responded to Plaintiff's amended complaint …
18-1481 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived abandonment administrative-law federal-agency-decision jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rail-line-acquisition standing surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation-board-jurisdiction united-states Whether the Surface Transportation Board had jurisdiction to render a decision in the underlying proceeding
18-9148 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. James T. Blomo Arizona 2019-05-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether the Honorable Margaret Mahoney should have issued a court order for the pro se litigant to reply to the defendant's motion to dismiss, as a mi…
18-9089 Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the plaintiff's intellectual property was improperly featured in the defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl
18-8969 Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
18-8746 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement California 2019-04-09 Denied IFP abandonment-of-appeal appeal appeal-dismissal attorney-signature civil-procedure civil-procedure-defects defendant-identification due-process electronic-service motion-to-dismiss party-identification procedural-defect service-of-process standing Shall the Court of Appeal grant Defendants' Motion to Dismiss an Appeal if Defendants improperly served the Plaintiff with this Motion
18-8605 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination discrimination-case due-process equal-protection judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss race-gender-discrimination recusal renewable-energy Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
18-1187 Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment Whether summary judgment was proper where the respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. moved to dismiss before filing an answer, no discovery had …
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver Speedy-Trial-Act-violation
18-8163 Pierre Andre Basson v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules motion-to-dismiss notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-plaintiff summary-judgment When considering a Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon which Relief May be Granted Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(…
18-7879 Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland Maryland 2019-02-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy?
18-7678 Alfonso Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act?
18-862 Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense?
18-805 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation Was the Third Circuit's failure to address the Surface Transportation Board's jurisdiction a clear error?
18-771 Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff
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…
18-683 Bradley Christopher Stark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading sovereign-immunity Whether a plaintiff possesses a burden to do more than allege an unequivocal waiver of sovereign immunity on a motion to dismiss raising a defense of …
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings Whether, and to what extent, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint and view the government's rational basis as a rebuttal presumption…
18-6386 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal due-process emotional-distress gross-negligence motion-to-dismiss reconsideration standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred
18-494 Thomas S. Ross v. Apple, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived 17-usc-106 17-usc-501 copyright-infringement copyright-ownership eleventh-circuit exclusive-rights motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly held that granting defendant's Motion for Dismissal was justified even though a) plaintiff proved ownership of …
18-6245 Johnny Kirkland v. Progressive Insurance Company, et al. Alabama 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights directed-verdict due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss right-to-counsel standing Whether Raymond Lofer vs Wonton, and Negligence
18-6125 Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights consideration constitutional-violation due-process factual-allegations federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleadings procedural-dismissal scheuer-v-rhodes Twombly-Iqbal Whether a court can rely on material outside the pleadings when ruling on a motion to dismiss
18-329 Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest Whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dismiss
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in affirming the substitution of the United States for Hillary Clinton an…
18-243 Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment checks-and-balances civil-rights constitutional-protection constitutional-rights discovery due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-abrogation judicial-proceedings motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 standing supervisory-liability supervisory-responsibility Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does no…
18-5741 George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying …
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
18-124 Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied 35-usc-101 abstract-idea factual-questions innovation-specificity motion-to-dismiss patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-under-35-usc-101 patent-specification section-101 specificity-requirement technological-architecture Innovative-technological-architecture-for-online-media-streaming
18-31 Joel Beck v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-claims mortgage motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-plaintiff procedural-dismissal rule-12(b)(6) standing state-law supreme-court-precedent Whether a pro se plaintiff's pleading of plausible state law claims, including an allegation that would stop a pending foreclosure, is subject to dism…
18-4 Samuel Giancarlo, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response Waived amendment amendment-request civil-procedure class-action dismissal due-process judicial-discretion litigation-delay manifest-injustice motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards procedural-errors securities-litigation standing Whether manifest injustice results from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appella…