| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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… |