organized-crime

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6192 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case (in hidden 5thC 20-50025) now a ripe Article III of the US Constitution bankruptcy case ready to proc…
24-6088 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud civil-rights constitutional-law due-process organized-crime whistleblower-protection Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case now a ripe Article III case ready to proceed to discovery and jury trial as an 18 USC Chapter 13, Civ…
24-176 Richard William Douglas, Jr., et al. v. William Joseph Kalanta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied court-procedure death-investigation organized-crime police-misconduct rico-violations statutory-standing Whether the Modesto Police Department can ignore evidence in a suspicious death investigation and potentially commit perjury in court proceedings
22-7047 Ilana Rigwan, aka L. Powers v. South Beach Bayside Condominium Association I, Inc. Florida 2023-03-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct legal-description mortgage-fraud organized-crime property-rights property-transfer standing How can property in the United States be transferred by the court with proven false facts?
22-6763 Cecil Wallace Williamson, Jr. v. Mike Heinricy, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-case civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-confession habeas-corpus organized-crime prosecutorial-misconduct racketeering witness-tampering Whether the State of Iowa's actions in allowing Jasper Conry to kidnap the petitioner through racketeering, criminal organized torture, and abuse, and…
22-486 Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin Texas 2022-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc…
21-1477 Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe routinely and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function and jur…
19-8846 David Nowakowski v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-02 Denied IFP criminal-network criminal-organizations criminal-procedure district-attorney inchoate-crimes organized-crime prosecutorial-discretion racketeering Where a private criminal plaintiff is ignored by a local District Attorney's Office, in the presence of criminality from racketeering, inchoate crimes…
19-8330 Valentin Spataru v. Florida Department of Transportation, et al. Florida 2020-04-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-conspiracy legal-procedure organized-crime pro-se-plaintiff standing traffic-regulation traffic-safety Whether employees of Florida government may conspire with more government employees, including judges, to avoid compensating their victims
19-7101 David Nowakowski v. E.E. Austin and Son, Inc., et al. Pennsylvania 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-organizations criminal-procedure criminal-racketeering due-process inchoate-crimes legal-remedies legislative-interpretation organized-crime pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering standing statutory-construction Where a plaintiff's position falls within the scope of an open Legislative statement, can the open ended nature of the statement be used to offset lon…
18-429 Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act Is there a bright-line rule that the pattern of racketeering activity must extend beyond twelve months to satisfy continuity' under RICO?
18-5320 James MacDonald v. Martin Dori Singer, et al. California 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-rules attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court free-speech organized-crime professional-conduct right-to-fair-trial right-to-petition slapp slapp-law standing unequal-protection Whether California's SLAPP law is unconstitutional for protecting unlawful petitioning activities, denying due process and the right to a fair trial, …