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25-7097 Gordon Ray Lewis v. Ryan Sinclair, District Attorney of Hood County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2026-03-24 Pending IFP civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-8-frcp 1. Did the complaint in this case, factual allegations, if taken as true, state a plausible claim for relief that is plausible on its face, and did …
25-7048 Gregory Michael Majersky v. Denver Public Schools Tenth Circuit 2026-03-17 Pending IFP alternative-grounds-doctrine disparate-treatment employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-litigation title-vii 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may evade this Court's decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 145 S. Ct. 1540 (2025), after expr…
25-1010 Lee Michael Tomko v. Bruno Martin Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-24 Denied Response Waived bivens-action federal-employee-liability fourth-amendment motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards rule-12b6 Is my complaint frivolous or otherwise insubstantial, when applying the motion to dismiss standard of accepting all allegations in the complaint as tr…
25-976 Robert Carlisle v. Board of Trustees of the American Federation of the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending asset-allocation defined-benefit-pension-plan ERISA-fiduciary-duty investment-performance pleading-standards prudent-man-standard Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a Fund fiduciary is subject to a "[p]rudent man standard of care," which requires t…
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe…
25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25-600 John Paul Beaudoin, Sr. v. Charles D. Baker, Jr., et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived case-dismissal civil-rights court-access due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing this case on standing and pleading standards? Whether meritorious cases filed in U.S. Courts are habituall…
25-6118 Jane Doe v. University of Chicago, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure fact-construction judicial-review medical-records pleading-standards pro-se 1. Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) and 8(e), does a court's failure to consider at all a pro se plaintiff's well-pled facts, including Complaint Exhibit…
25A389 InfoDeli, LLC, a Missouri LLC, et al. v. Western Robidoux, Inc., a Missouri Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof copyright-law expert-testimony pleading-standards saas-services software-copyright This is an application for extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, not a petition containing a "Question(s) Presented" section …
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 1. Should this Court allow Kentucky's state courts and federal district courts to dismiss meritorious civil complaints before discovery "for failure t…
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 Are my claims in the amended complaint, sufficient enough to survive a motion to dismiss, when applying motion to dismiss standards such as accepting …
25-251 Hung Dang v. Kimberly Moore, M.D., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenges pleading-standards section-1981 section-1983 summary-judgment In the Ninth Circuit's opinion, Petitioner must allege a prima facie case of discrimination and "the requisite meeting of the minds to establish a con…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii "Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil P…
24A1295 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii Question not identified.
24A1207 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination pleading-standards retaliation supplemental-jurisdiction title-vii Question not identified.
24-979 Legacy Recovery Services, LLC, dba Legacy House, et al. v. City of Monroe, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response Waived amendment-rights appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure finality-doctrine pleading-standards rule-12 1. Do the lower federal courts have authority to create pleading requirements for civil rights complaints above what is required under the Federal Rul…
24-6463 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, et al. Florida 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof failure-to-state-claim pleading-standards res-judicata statute-of-limitations trial-court-discretion 1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S CASE FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM OR INSUFFICIENT PLEADING, EXPIRATION …
24-618 Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity 1. Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by selectively eliminati…
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…
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 1. When are pleadings sufficient to state a claim under the standard set in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009) and applied in a broader context in…
23-1205 Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened…
23-7375 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-denial civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pleading-standards post-conviction-relief Whether Ctd:fount shmlJ I? &Ntj mwmm $ I/O, pkfsoA/ets po^f camuic Yon KeJteY
23-7255 Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine 1. Whether the 11th Circuit Court erred when it did not consider Horace's medical records and expert witness statements raised in argument to the Dist…
23-7111 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Driver License Division, et al. Alabama 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-burden pleading pleading-standards res-judicata sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations trial-court-dismissal 1) Whether the Trial Court' erred as a matter of law by dismissing Petitioner 's case based upon the Lower Court 's decision that Petitioner, failed…
23-1031 Deana Pollard Sacks v. Texas Southern University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations eeoc-charge hostile-work-environment pleading-standard pleading-standards summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether a federal court may reject the doctrine of continuing violations in a Title VII hostile-work environment case and eliminate from considerat…
23A578 NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete class-action expert-testimony pleading-standards pslra scienter securities-fraud Question not identified.
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(3) and § 1983 are sufficiently stated under Fed. Rule Civ. P. 8(2), so as to survive a Rule 12(b)…
23-409 Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the "shotgun pleading" standard to affirm the dismissal of the Petitioner's complaint for violations …
23-5269 Noble Christo El, aka Christopher Nathan Jones v. William Todd Miller, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federalism jurisdiction legal-standing pleading-standards standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings 1. From the text, read conspiracy £ \Yx©$>* vA</\A,td S'tA 'fcfrs fW«oc^ 5 and -\dv* cfcoX&t oF ov)T -Wift ^^mdfed-forv^stv^A V^» fNOuO^Vxas o^\; Wn* …
23-73 Colleen Huber v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-rights conspiracy first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage pleading-standards social-media-regulation state-action twombly-iqbal Petitioner Dr. Colleen Huber sued President Biden (in his official capacity) and Twitter for censoring Dr. Huber's speech on Twitter critical of the B…
23-5028 Eric St. George v. E. E. Colorado 2023-07-05 Denied IFP 12b6-dismissal amendment civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing Is it permissible for a State District Court to deny a pro-se plaintiff every motion to amend, to never allow an amendment to a meritorious case, to d…
22-1224 Randy Ralston, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coastal-development due-process government-action land-use-regulation pleading-standards property-rights ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Randy Ralston and Linda Mendiola (Ralstons) wish to build a retirement home on their residentially zoned land in San Mateo County, California. However…
22-1045 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal due-process pleading-standards pleadings prisoner-rights rule-12 section-1983 standing Does Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 12 permit a defendant to file successive, pre-answer Rule 12(b)(6) motion(s) to dismiss —each towards a sep…
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…
22-6015 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida Florida 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process florida-jurisprudence florida-supreme-court giglio-precedent giglio-v-united-states pleading-requirements pleading-standards procedural-specificity supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court contravened Giglio v. United States and procedural due process by requiring heightened specificity in pleading?
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 Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a (Rule 91a) Dismissal of Baseless Cause of Action, became effective March 1, 2013, and suppose to be similar to Feder…
22-5578 Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank Ninth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review Petitioner "Pro Se" requests a Writ of Certiorari for compelling reasons. "The United States Department of Justice reestablished the Office for Acces…
22-224 Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 This case involves issues relating to the arrest of respondents on the charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and the sufficiency of respon…
22-137 BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. District of Columbia 2022-08-11 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), St. Amant v. Thompson, 390 U.S. 727 (1968), and Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton, …
22-89 Michelle M. Newbauer v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules iqbal iqbal-standard notice-pleading pleading pleading-standards rule-8 twombly twombly-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit required an unnecessary and unrealistic level of detail in pleading factual allegations supporting a facially plausible c…
21-1597 Seyed Mohsen Sharifi Takieh v. Banner Health, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied 12(b)(6)-motion civil-rights discrimination due-process medical-board-investigation pleading-standards race-discrimination race-neutral-explanation standing summary-judgment 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in determining that the District Court properly incorporated the Ruling in the State Court Injunction Action on a 12(b)(6…
21-1560 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions The Questions Presented are: 1. Rule 2.11 of the Code of Conduct and as pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455 and Cannon 3C(1) of the Code of United States Jud…
21-1517 Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.…
21-1435 Martin H. Leaf v. Nike, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consumer-protection deceptive-conduct deceptive-practices free-speech internet-content pleading-standards standing state-of-mind subliminal-advertising Plaintiff alleged that the public – over four billion including Petitioner Martin Leaf -were exposed to a deceptive subliminal and subtle five -minute…
21-7532 Palani Karupaiyan v. International SOS, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conley-v-gibson copyright-ownership federal-courts federal-procedure federal-statute joint-employment pleading-standards remedies software-engineering sullivan-v-little-hunting-park a) In Civil rights complaint, when the Plaintiff alleged that Joint employers did not pay to the plaintiff is enough for FCP Rule 8(a) 's short and pl…
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 A. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN RULING THAT COUNTS II, III, V, VI, VIII and IX SHOULD BE DISMISSED PURSUANT To FED.R.CIV. P. 12(B)(6)? B. WHET…
21-842 Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards 1. May allegations made in support of the claim that a case should proceed as a class action be struck from a pleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Civ…
21-654 Judith Frei, et al. v. Taro Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. Second Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion pleading pleading-standards standing Whether, consistent with Due Process and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15, a court has discretion to dismiss a plaintiff's complaint under Federal R…
21-6047 Fortuno Jeanfort v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, aka Florida Atlantic University Florida 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process pleading-standards public-official standing tort-liability IntraDistrict courts all across the State have confused absolute immunity to State Universities themselves, versus the personal liability of (actual) …
21-5417 Alfred E. Caraffa v. Tempe Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process official-capacity pleading-standards qualified-immunity standing I Address the Arizona District court's Refusal to trial iN CCSC No.2:I9-CV-O5492-PHx-MTL-ESW) when IrAppendix B pg-2of8 pt. It states Plainti f has cl…
21-121 Christiana Tah, et al. v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-07-28 Denied Amici (1) actual-malice civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech inference-of-intent pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure public-plaintiff Whether a complaint by a public plaintiff alleging defamation sufficiently pleads actual malice, in the absence of direct evidence, by presenting deta…
21-49 James Tolle v. Rockwell Collins Control Technologies, Inc., dba Rockwell Collins, Inc., dba United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process factual-allegations free-speech judicial-review pleading-standards presumption-of-truth rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-dismissal I. Without any indication from the District Court's Opinion that it found a defect in Plaintiff's pleadings or factual allegations of his Complaint, t…
20-1526 Warnock Engineering, L.L.C., et al. v. Canton Municipal Utilities Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-pleading-standards first-amendment johnson-v-shelby pleading-standards quantum-meruit retaliation-claim standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' quantum meruit claim due to alleged inadequate pleading should be re…
20-1350 Go New York Tours, Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived anticompetitive-conduct antitrust antitrust-conspiracy circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure parallel-conduct pleading-standards plus-factors section-1 sherman-act twombly 1. Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of "plus factors" in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct in order to plead an antitrust conspirac…
20-1108 Pontiler S.A. v. OPI Products Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure contract due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-policy judicial-discretion pleading-standards rule-15 rule-8 The court of appeals without a hearing and without granting leave to amend dismissed petitioner's complaint because it omits one nonessential word in …
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 1. How does this Amended Complaint not 2. How does this Amended Complaint not be granted pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2) which freely gives the …
20-6852 Cindy Bauer, fka Cindy Gamrat v. Edward McBroom, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-and-just-treatment fair-treatment legislative-immunity legislative-investigations-and-hearings pleading-standard pleading-standards sixth-circuit Article I § 17 of Michigan 's Constitution states in part, The right of all individuals, firms, and corporations, and voluntary associations to fair …
20-6838 Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing A) Whether a lower federal court loses its jurisdiction over a petition for writ of habeas corpus upon release of the civil detention petitioner, al…
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 It is, or at least, was well established that in order to withstand a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a…
20-759 Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii 1. Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se compla…
20-705 Chris Jaye v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity petition-rights pleading-standards standing Has the US Court of Federal Claims and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnso…
20-625 Joseph Findler v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-claims dismissal-with-prejudice entitlement-to-relief federal-rules iqbal-twombly pleading-standards subject-matter-jurisdiction unconstitutional-conduct Do the lower federal courts have the authority to depart from the pleading standards required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court's…
20-624 Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing Is it a question of law, for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process, or vio…
20-581 United States, ex rel. Integra Med Analytics, L.L.C. v. Baylor Scott & White Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response Waived 3rd-circuit 5th-circuit alternative-explanation alternative-explanations false-claims-act federal-procedure pleading-standards relator statistical-analysis Numerous circuits have held that a relator may state a claim under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-32 (the "FCA"), by alleging "particular det…
20-571 Yoel Weisshaus v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Second Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied commerce-clause congressional-authority dormant-commerce-clause legal-tender pleading-standards price-fixing state-regulation 1. When Congress exercises authority under the Commerce Clause, whether a negative impact to that act of Congress is actionable within the parameters …
20-6077 Johnathan Pinney v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts frivolous-claims judicial-discretion pleading-standards pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes-rule 1: May the District court compell related Issues to be severed and indrvldually flled so as to dismiss the resulting actlons indirldnaly and deprive s…
20-5504 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals dealt with the merit and merits due in good faith process protection protect mactin in this case. 2) District court abus…
20-5420 Helga G. Suarez Clark v. Republic of Peru District of Columbia 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel due-process pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-8a short-and-plain-statement standing venue venue-transfer 1 USCA(case 20-7001) erroneously denied my motion for court appointed counsel, aledging case did not have merits despite chief judge Me Mahon NYSD(18-…
19-1249 Phyllis Davis v. Echo Valley Condominium Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure fair-housing-act federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice-pleading pleading-standards state-law summary-judgment twombly 1. Whether the liberal notice pleading standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) cea…
19-8320 Quintez Talley v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-claims pleading-standards prisoner-rights pro-se-plaintiff state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction 1. Is a Parties right to raise an absolute a/identiam. PYimleae tontaent UP0Y1 Whether bY evidence ? 2. bots -the. doctrine thaba district Court must…
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-04 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud In this case THE PETITION for that "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of' "Complaint in this actio…
19-8121 Nikkolas Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP admiralty-rules burden-of-proof civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-challenge currency-seizure due-process pleading-standards standing I. Whether, the 2000 amendments to the Civil Asset Forfeiture act are constitutional where it requires a Claimant to prove the source of the funds in …
19-802 David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing To plead diversity of citizenship, is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on "information and belief" sufficient, or must a…
19-6879 Salim Abdul-Malik v. City Government Office of Court Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-accessibility due-process immigration-procedures judicial-reform pleading-standards prisoner-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation state-action 1) As a first, pro se litigants have the Constitutional right to represent themselves in which this notion has its origins which stem from the Judicia…
19-679 Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force 1) Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense (placing the burden on the defendant to raise and prove it) or whether it is a pleading requir…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
19-425 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis leave-to-amend notice notice-requirement pleading-standards procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation What is the meaning of 28 U.S.C. Section 1915 (e) (2) (b) (ii), "fails to state a claim on which relief can be granted", as it relates to Rule 12 (b) …
19-5945 Timothy Eugene Sampson v. Cathy M. Garrett, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review pleading-standards procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standing I. THe Astinat CouT Enraned in Drsaissing the Complannt TO Heck bAe And 4 CAW lelanT A wriT of CenTiORtRi ? II. Did the DistTa covl enreR in necanfrE…
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing 1. Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8…
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 Where all court filing fees have been paid to initiate pursuit, what is the appropriate inquiry for determining when only a litigant's factual allegat…
18-1533 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act Whether, in an initiating pleading or complaint, allegations are sufficient in the absence of explicit facts as to the one or more official policies o…
18-9373 David Shu v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination-claim due-process jury-trial-right pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal standing title-vii "Whether it's proper that a Title VII of the Civil Rights Act discrimination case drafted by a pro se US citizen whose native language is not English …
18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl…
18-8685 Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a of writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of app…
18-1271 Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal In pleading a breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA, is it sufficient for a plaintiff to allege a deficient decision-making process indirectly through …
18-7493 Hayward Jackson v. Equifax Workforce Solutions, dba Labor Ready Southwest, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-sufficiency conley-v-gibson due-process federal-causes-of-action judicial-review leatherman-v-tarrant pleading pleading-standards second-amended-complaint supreme-court-precedent Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with this Court's Decisions in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U. S. …
18-934 Cynthia Prosterman, et al. v. American Airlines Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust-enforcement antitrust-pleading civil-procedure combination-conspiracy due-process pleading-standards rule-12b6 sherman-act twombly twombly-standard Since this Court decided Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), Circuits are split as to its interpretation and Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) dismi…
18-911 Intermountain Health Care, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Gerald Polukoff, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-14 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived appointments-clause civil-procedure civil-procedure-9(b) false-claims-act fraud particularity-requirement pleading-standards qui-tam rule-9b standing 1. Whether a court may create an exception to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s particularity requirement when the plaintiff claims that only the…
18-7319 Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards Whether the court of appeals' decision, purporting to follow the principles elucidated by this Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 129 S. Ct. 19…
18-6942 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off Whether judges may make findings of fact at the pleading stage in dismissing claims for "failure to state a claim." Whether the District Court erred …
18-690 Bruce C. Rosetto, et al. v. Charles Murphy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response Waived barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-receiver due-process federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-12(b)(1) jurisdictional-dismissal pleading-standards rule-12(b)(1) standing ultra-vires Where a plaintiff alleges that an agent of a court appointed receiver is liable for misconduct committed outside the scope of designated authority, bu…
18-541 Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal The questions presented are ripe for the Court's guidance on at least four unresolved or underdeveloped aspects of civil litigation, namely conflict i…
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for not…
18-5883 Burdette Lowe v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-retaliation civil-rights disability due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination judicial-procedure pleading-standard pleading-standards retaliation Whether it is proper for lower courts to issue dismissal decisions by omitting essential facts and misconstruing factual allegations, and creating dec…
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.…
18-4 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 Does manifest injustice result from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appellate c…