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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-795 | Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Chauncey J. Watches, Judge, Steuben County, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity petition-clause second-amendment | WHETHER federal in forma pauperis litigants may be significantly denied immediate access to Court while filing-fee paying litigants suffer no such con… |
| 25-741 | Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota, et al. | Minnesota | 2025-12-22 | Pending | Response Waived | constitutional-claims federal-court first-amendment petition-clause statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review | To protect the right of access to the courts under the First Amendment's Petition Clause, during the petition stage of this Court seeking review of fe… |
| 25-455 | Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. | Massachusetts | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors | Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani… |
| 25-185 | Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California | California | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code | The California judiciary participates in red-light running camera ticket projects because it collects court fees from alleged violators as do the gove… |
| 24-6825 | Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh | California | 2025-03-21 | Denied | IFP | anti-slapp constitutional-rights federal-courts first-amendment petition-clause state-courts | Whether anti-SLAPP statutes used in state and federal courts violate First Amendment rights of plaintiffs to petition the courts when even meritorious… |
| 24-776 | Paul S. Astrup v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment petition-clause seventh-amendment summary-judgment | 1. Pursuant to SCOTUS Rule 13.3, did the lower court appropriately entertain an untimely petition for rehearing thus fixing the time for Astrup to fil… |
| 24-346 | Robert Beadles v. Jamie Rodriguez, et al. | Nevada | 2024-09-27 | Denied | election-grievances first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause pleading-standards rule-12b5-dismissal | 1. First Amendment Right to Petition: Does the failure of state and local officials to address and respond to legitimate election grievances constitut… | |
| 23-7604 | Sheila Halousek v. Verizon | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | IFP | appeal-denial arbitrary-dismissal civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court first-amendment judicial-discretion petition-clause petition-government redress-grievances | Was Petitioner denied her explicit constitutional civil right under the First Amendment to petition the government for a redress of grievances when th… |
| 23-1160 | Derrick Williams v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2024-04-25 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel | 1. WHETHER THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO PETITION THE STATE COURTS PURSUANT TO THE 1ST AND 14THAMENDMENTS OF OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION UPON THE ISSUE … |
| 23-7063 | Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause standing | Can the Department of Justice refuse to take a criminal Complaint of federal crimes from Givey? |
| 23-486 | Sidney Powell, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure electoral-college first-amendment petition petition-clause rule-11 safe-harbor sanctions | The Sixth Circuit upheld large joint-and-several monetary sanctions and bar-referral sanctions under Rule 11(c)(2) for a complaint against Michigan's … |
| 23-5542 | Stephen James Hood v. Virginia | Virginia | 2023-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation | In Virginia, anyone who was convicted of a felony has the right to demonstrate their innocence with new evidence through a petition for a writ of actu… |
| 22-7064 | Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-provisions double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus inmate-rights judicial-review legal-controversy petition-clause pretrial-writ reindictment statutory-provisions | WHEN PETITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY WRIT IS FILED ON DOUBLE JEOPARDY CAUSE THERETO, THE STATE HIGHEST COURT BEFORE TRIAL HAD EITHER JURISDICTION FOR THE S… |
| 22-6373 | Alicja Z. Herriott v. Paul Barrett Herriott | California | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-redress petition-clause right-to-petition vexatious-litigant | InBe&K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 516, 53, this Court held that "The First Amendment provides, in relevant part, that "Congress shall make no… |
| 22-426 | Transperfect Global, Inc., et al. v. Robert Pincus | Delaware | 2022-11-07 | Denied | contempt contempt-power corporate-litigation declaratory-judgment delaware-law due-process first-amendment judicial-declaration petition-clause | Whether holding TPG in contempt because it filed a lawsuit in Nevada unconstitutionally burdened TPG's First Amendment right to petition. | |
| 21-1591 | Bardstown Capital Corporation, et al. v. Seiller Waterman, LLC, et al. | Kentucky | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Relisted (2) | antitrust-laws civil-proceedings first-amendment noerr-pennington-doctrine petition-clause sham-lawsuit sham-lawsuits standing wrongful-use-of-process | 1. This Court's precedent "finds all but sham law suits exempt from the reach of the antitrust laws." BE & K Const. Co. v. N.L.R.B., 536 U.S. 516, 540… |
| 21-7747 | Michael G. Peters v. Kenneth M. Hoyt, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Dismissed | IFP | citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation corporate-cover-up due-process evidence-suppression free-speech government-action legal-dispute petition-clause standing takings | Question not identified. |
| 21-1057 | Oracle Corporation v. Hewlett-Packard Company | California | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Amici (1) | appeal-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-award due-process first-amendment free-speech litigation-activity petition-clause standing | The First Amendment to the Constitution protects "the right of citizens to petition the government," U.S. amend. I, which this Court has held "protect… |
| 21-450 | Anthony Futia, Jr., et al. v. Westchester County Board of Legislators, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | citizen-accountability constitutional-rights first-amendment guarantee-clause petition-clause redress standing state-constitution state-government taxpayer-standing | Whether a State's legislative and executive employees are obligated to respond to Petitions from that State's citizen-voters for Redress of their viol… |
| 21-5667 | David Lockmiller v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights constitutional-rights contingency-fee due-process federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment free-speech government-redress petition-clause | Given the fact that the Constitution of the United States, Amendment I reads in pertinent part that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . … |
| 21-353 | Ethan Hoggatt, et al. v. Allstate Insurance, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment insurance-fraud mississippi-unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices-a negligence-per-se petition-clause right-to-petition | Petitioners, the Hoggats, filed criminal fraud charges with the Mississippi Attorney General against Allstate a month prior to filing of this civil ac… |
| 21-5521 | Antonia W. Shields v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-accountability government-immunity petition-clause redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity standing | Under U. S. Constitution Article III, section 2 and U. S. Constitution Article VI., is the Government sovereignly immune to duty in U. S. Constitution… |
| 21-5496 | José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. | Florida | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause | 1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le… |
| 21-5497 | José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. | Florida | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant | Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. … |
| 20-8471 | Angel Morales v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 due-process petition-clause standing | Due to the covid-19 pandemic, since March 2010 inmates have not had access to a type writer or the library, and there has been times where we only com… |
| 20-8176 | Leslie Willis v. Lawrence J. O'Toole, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud judicial-immunity jurisdiction petition-clause standing summary-judgment | 1. Whether a Court may grant summary judgment without jurisdiction; and where there is no absolute or quasi-judicial immunity; where there were no dis… |
| 20-1632 | Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. v. Kim R. Helper | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-24 | Denied | absolute-immunity clearly-established constitutional-rights first-amendment petition-clause public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation | 1. Whether the decisional law regarding retaliation under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment was clearly established to place a public officia… | |
| 20-1626 | Robert L. Schulz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-response historical-practice judicial-review petition-clause right-to-petition | Whether a forerunner to this case, We The People, et al. u. United States, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20409 (D.D.C. 2005) aff 'd 485 F.3d 140 (2007, D.C. C… |
| 20-1564 | James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted where, if left without review, the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth C… |
| 20-1091 | Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. | New York | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute | 1. Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minne sota State Bd. for Community Colls, v. Knight, 465 U.S. 271 (1984) in ruling Respondent Town Board … |
| 20-7103 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. | North Carolina | 2021-02-10 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing | THE JUDGMENTCS) IN THE NATTER OF CASE NO. 42SPIQ-2 DiRECTIY iNVOLUES A SUbSTANTIAL EUINO STATES PURSUONT TO N.C.G.S.7A-BOCI). HENCE, THE Said juDGNEUT… |
| 20-691 | Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell | California | 2020-11-18 | Denied | civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation | 1. Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? In particular when the Govern… | |
| 20-6164 | In Re Theresa S. Romain | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination | 1. Can a State encourages discrimination on the basis of the race theory? 2. Does the petition clause (1st Amendment) automatically disqualifies a pe… | |
| 20-6019 | Greg P. Givens v. Clyde Yates, Jr., et al. | Ohio | 2020-10-15 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech immunity judicial-discretion petition-clause standing | I. Does the lower court have the absolute right to wholly suspend and censor the First Amendment Right of the Freedom of Speech to a natural born cit… |
| 20-332 | Maggy Hurchalla v. Lake Point Phase I, LLC, et al. | Florida | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Amici (2) | first-amendment free-speech genuine-belief governmental-action petition-clause public-concern tort-award verifiable-assertion | Where a person speaks to a government official on a matter of public concern, and a subsequent governmental action regarding that matter harms a third… |
| 19-1375 | Aaron L. Katz v. Incline Village General Improvement District | Nevada | 2020-06-13 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights fee-shifting first-amendment litigation-immunity petition-clause public-concern public-grievances punitive-statute sham-litigation standing | The First Amendment right to petition clause contains a heightened standard precluding liability when a citizen exercises his/her right to bring suit … | |
| 19-948 | Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-01-29 | Denied | civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing | I. Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?" II. Did the Government d… | |
| 19-713 | Paul E. Nunu v. Nancy Nunu Risk, et al. | Texas | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abridged Petitioner's First-Amendment-right-to-pe as applied access-to-courts citizens-united-v-fec contempt court-access first-amendment petition-clause prior-restraint pro-se vexatious-litigant | 1. Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Te… |
| 19-6330 | Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan | California | 2019-10-22 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing | Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a… |
| 19-5016 | Michael A. Salazar v. HEB Grocery Company, LP, et al. | Texas | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud judicial-procedure petition-clause right-to-petition right-to-sue standing | Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in affirming the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's case, which violated the petitioner's due process r… |
| 18-7743 | Kevin Daniel Driscoll v. Josie Gastelo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | IFP | aedpa anti-terrorism antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-petition habeas-corpus petition-clause petition-rights procedural-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether the Anti-ferrorist and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996 vitiates citizens' 1) Privilege to the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 2) Right to p… |
| 18-7524 | Roger L. Harrison, Jr., et al. v. Charlotte H. Huggins, et al. | Illinois | 2019-01-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process government-seizure indigent-rights necessary-parties petition-clause petition-for-redress petition-rights recusal seizure-of-property standing takings trust-property | Whether due process allows the denial of the right to petition the government for redress of grievances due to lack of funds to pay court costs and fe… |
| 18-822 | Steven G. Cohen v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan | Michigan | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-petition judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct petition petition-clause professional-ethics professional-misconduct rosa-parks-estate | Whether the arbitrary, contradictory and fact-free proceedings conducted by the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board violated Petitioner's rights under … |
| 18-794 | Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access | Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four… |
| 18-383 | Jesse J. Davis, Jr., et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association | Connecticut | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process Due-process-of-law,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amen equal-protection Equal-protection-of-the-laws,fourteenth-amendment Excessive-fines,foreclosure free-speech impartial-court petition-clause Right-to-impartial-court,sixth-amendment,seventh-a right-to-petition Right-to-petition-government,first-amendment right-to-public-trial Right-to-public-trial,right-to-information,sixth-a sanctions | Whether the sanctions imposed by the Connecticut Appellate Court violate the petitioners' constitutional rights, including their rights to due process… |
| 18-5579 | In Re Brent Cole | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law common-law-right constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment justice petition-clause right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing | Is a court's refusal to allow an accused person any opportunity to be heard by themself and counsel a substantive violation of due-process, common-law… | |
| 18-41 | Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray | Florida | 2018-07-06 | Denied | access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction | Whether Florida Supreme Court has authority to dismiss petition by unrepresented party to review orders and impede sought relief for bodily injuries, … | |
| 18-5058 | Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Deante Drake's petition for rehearing en banc as untimely under Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(3)(A… |