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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A912 | Joshua Howard v. Anthony Meli, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Application | 28-u.s.c.-§1746 extension-request filing-deadline prison-mailbox-rule pro-se supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A907 | Samson K. Orusa v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Application | certiorari federal-court good-faith judicial-misconduct prisoner-petition pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A894 | George Jimenez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Application | appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency | Question not identified. | |
| 25A876 | Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Application | disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 25A861 | Giordano Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Application | certificate-of-appealability federal-procedure habeas-corpus institutional-constraints law-of-case pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A857 | John Paul Gomez v. David Ryan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | civil-rights dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se section-1983 vexatious-litigant | Question not identified. | |
| 25A852 | John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. | California | 2026-01-29 | Application | docketing-fee extension-of-time filing-requirements in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A851 | Rashid El Malik v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Application | extension-of-time formatting-requirements petition pro-se rule-33.1 supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A830 | Eduardo Luciano v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | certiorari legal-mail prison-resources pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A833 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Andres Garcia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | court-procedure extension-of-time judicial-discretion litigation-process petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6612 | Qing Han v. Joseph Auto Service Inc. | Texas | 2026-01-16 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause documentary-evidence exhibit-admission notary-interpretation pro-se | Whether the Court of Appeals permits an appellate court to give a notice of judgment on the theory that a prose, interpreter-assisted litigant never o… |
| 25-6604 | In Re Angeliina L. Lawson | 2026-01-16 | Pending | IFP | ada-retaliation civil-rights judicial-bias mandamus pro-se rico | 1. Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus (25-3158) to correct the Tenth Circuit's denial of emergency relief, where a pro se litigant pro… | |
| 25-6580 | Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Human Resources-Public Works, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process motion-to-dismiss notice-and-opportunity pro-se summary-judgment | When considering a Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon which Relief May be Granted Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(… |
| 25A818 | Dana Escoffier v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Application | appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline motion-for-relief pro-se time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A809 | Richard Saddler v. Matthew Hearne, et al. | Missouri | 2026-01-13 | Application | counsel-withdrawal due-process financial-disclosure missouri-supreme-court-rule pro-se state-court-procedure | Question not identified. | |
| 25-814 | Assata Acey Hackman v. Inductev | Third Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review evidence-review judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court-oversight | Does the oversight of the US Supreme Court permit its lower courts to ignore submitted evidence in order to refuse pro se petitions? |
| 25A783 | Crystal Greenlaw v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Application | 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process sentence-reduction | Question not identified. | |
| 25A780 | Celeste M. Gonsalves v. Stuart B. Glauberman, by His Managing Agent, KFG Properties, Inc. | Hawaii | 2026-01-06 | Application | extension-request hawaii-probate-court indigency pro-se trust-property writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6484 | Donald N. S. Mortvedt v. Charles E. Clawson, III, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Pending | IFP | due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-liberty pro-se section-1983 sua-sponte | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liber… |
| 25A771 | Montaz Lee Kennedy v. Samuel Fields, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Application | housing-instability indigent-status petition-filing pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A770 | John De Light v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County, et al. | California | 2026-01-05 | Application | due-process ex-parte judicial-review pro-se procedural-irregularity state-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A766 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-02 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time litigation petition pro-se supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A762 | Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon | Third Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Application | due-process excusable-neglect notice-of-appeal pro-se property-rights rule-60 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6449 | Cynthia Lynn Pollick v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-12-30 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights disorderly-conduct due-process legal-counsel pro-se sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania when it failed to honor… |
| 25A745 | Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 25A733 | Scott Erik Stafne v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-questions judicial-authority pro-se sanctions | Question not identified. | |
| 25A719 | Pamela McKethan v. GSLS GA, LLC | Georgia | 2025-12-18 | Application | certiorari family-emergency good-cause pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A710 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Gus Lopez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | certiorari eleventh-circuit extension-of-time litigation petition pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A709 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Gus Lopez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | certiorari eleventh-circuit extension litigation petition pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A711 | Dale Sundby, as Trustee v. Marquee Funding Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | appellate-procedure intervention post-judgment pro-se property-refinancing trustee | (1) whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a) permits post-judgment intervention as this Court held in United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald, 432 U.S.… | |
| 25A712 | Donald Wayne Read v. Texas | Texas | 2025-12-17 | Application | constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A701 | Beatrice Rivera, aka Beatrice Adams v. Arlington County Department of Human Services | Virginia | 2025-12-16 | Application | certiorari petition-for-appeal pro-se state-court-order supreme-court-rules time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6356 | Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-12-15 | Pending | IFP | appeal-as-of-right due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-judgment pro-se | 1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the fi… |
| 25A671 | Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Application | death-penalty docket-consolidation eleventh-circuit federal-habeas ineffective-assistance pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A664 | Jeanie Reese v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. | California | 2025-12-05 | Application | court-document extension-request filing-deadline pro-se procedural-rules timely-submission | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6297 | Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se rule-41b tucker-act | 1. Whether the Court of Federal Claims may dismiss a pro se complaint for failure to prosecute based solely on an assertedly incomplete in forma paupe… |
| 25A654 | John T. Hardee v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-12-04 | Application | certiorari court-procedure formatting-requirements pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A652 | Zbigniew M. Laskowski v. Washington Department of Labor & Industries | Washington | 2025-12-03 | Application | certiorari-petition disability-accommodation judicial-process legal-representation pro-se time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A646 | Albert Whitney Coburn v. Lara Brooke Seefeldt | Washington | 2025-12-03 | Application | constitutional-issues indigent legal-extension petition-for-certiorari pro-se supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A637 | Arun K. Chhabra v. ACW New Jersey, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | deadline-extension disability-accommodation legal-assistance medical-limitation pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether a pro se litigant's physical disabilities and temporary lack of assistance constitute grounds for extending a deadline to file a petition for … | |
| 25A639 | Stanley Donald v. Carol Micci, et al. | Massachusetts | 2025-12-02 | Application | appellate-review certiorari legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to difficulties in obtaining legal assistance during holida… | |
| 25A621 | Chad Henry Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Application | appellate-review appointed-counsel extraordinary-circumstances petition-for-certiorari pro-se withdrawal | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when appointed counsel has withdrawn and the p… | |
| 25A616 | Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, Trustee for the Certificate Holders of CWMBS, Inc., CWMBS Reforming Loan Remic Trust Certificates Series 005-R2 | Second Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Application | certiorari constitutional-rights emergency-application pro-se property-seizure time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant facing state enforcement actions and medical complications can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari… | |
| 25-6238 | Gregory Webb v. Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights incarceration ineffective-assistance legal-procedure post-conviction pro-se | Question not identified. |
| 25A603 | Gabriel L'Ambiance Ingram v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time lower-courts pro-se title-iii wiretap | Whether a pro se petitioner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when related motions to unseal Title III wiretap materials a… | |
| 25A595 | Katy Elizabeth Kabha v. Texas | Texas | 2025-11-20 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time felony-conviction judicial-efficiency newly-discovered-evidence pro-se | Whether a pro se petitioner's request for a 60-day extension to file a certiorari petition should be granted based on pending state-court motions and … | |
| 25-6177 | Jesse D. Pellow v. Presbyterian Homes, Inc., dba Presbyter | Third Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-rights eeoc-complaint employment-discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se | On September 18th, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the numbered civil complaint filed in the … |
| 25-6148 | Jehan Semper v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se | Constitutional and Civil Rights District Court 1. District Court FAILS to Consider Indigent Pro Se Plaintiffs Filings and Motions Whatsoever. Is it … |
| 25A579 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Application | certiorari judicial-procedure page-limits pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant may seek an extraordinary extension of page limits for a certiorari petition beyond the standard rules of Supreme Court proc… | |
| 25A573 | Shane Stevens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-11-14 | Application | certiorari docket-fee extension-of-time pro-se rule-33.1 supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court will grant a procedural extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under Rule 33.1 | |
| 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… |
| 25A560 | Jane Doe v. United States District Court for the District of Connecticut | Second Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | alternative-remedy appellate-review extraordinary-writ judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain mandamus relief when alternative legal remedies exist and the right to extraordinary relief is not clearly establ… | |
| 25A567 | Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pro-se substantial-showing | Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals properly denied a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus proceeding by finding the petitioner fail… | |
| 25A572 | Ian Buenaventura v. Leslie Buot | Maine | 2025-11-14 | Application | anti-slapp due-process first-amendment judicial-bias pro-se procedural-fairness | Whether the First Amendment and due process protections are violated by a court's systematic procedural bias that impairs a pro se litigant's ability … | |
| 25A559 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Application | bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions | Whether federal courts may impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith when dismissing a pro se prisoner's civil ri… | |
| 25A558 | Chantel Mitchell v. Office Depot, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Application | equitable-tolling medical-emergency petition-for-certiorari pro-se statutory-deadline supreme-court-procedure | Whether equitable tolling principles apply to statutory filing deadlines when a litigant experiences an extraordinary and unforeseeable family medical… | |
| 25A508 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Meghan Anderson, Police Lieutenant, Broward County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | court-review eleventh-circuit judicial-screening petition pro-se vexatious-litigation | Whether a federal court can review a pro se litigant's repeated filings and potential vexatious litigation status | |
| 25A501 | Nicholas Hansen v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Application | legal-filing prison-resources pro-se statute-of-limitations time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted due to limited access to legal resources | |
| 25-6015 | Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. | Indiana | 2025-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se | I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it selects a singular appella… |
| 25A488 | Philip J. Seiflein v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Application | disability-claims due-process mental-health pro-se va-proceedings veterans-benefits | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time for a pro se veteran to file a petition for certiorari challenging systemic due process fa… | |
| 25-5948 | Jody D. Kimbrell v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedure pro-se venue-change | 1. Under Federal Rule for venue change can Central District Court of California change rule procedures if plaintiff is pro se? 2. Can Ninth Circuit i… |
| 25A462 | Nestor Daniel Carrera v. California | California | 2025-10-22 | Application | court-review criminal-appeal litigant-status petition-denial pro-se procedural-deficiency | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural deficiencies in a criminal appeal can constitute grounds for dismissal or denial of review | |
| 25A453 | Eric Arthur Walton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | certiorari circuit-split federal-law pro-se standard-of-review supervised-release | Whether the Supreme Court should establish a uniform standard of appellate review for district court decisions allowing defendants to proceed pro se a… | |
| 25-477 | Aaron Jacob Mindiola v. Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-credit-reporting-act pro-se title-ii-ada | In an Arizona divorce, despite A.R.S. §25-403(5)'s best-interests standard addressing the mental health of all parties, the court compelled only the d… |
| 25A433 | Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a pro se litigant's appeal based on a procedural default without considering exceptional… | |
| 25A377 | Ian S. R. Buenaventura v. Leslie G. C. Buot | Maine | 2025-10-01 | Presumed Complete | anti-slapp first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-review pro-se procedural-due-process | Whether a state court's dismissal of an interlocutory appeal under an anti-SLAPP statute violates a pro se litigant's First Amendment right to appeal … | |
| 25A375 | Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-01 | Presumed Complete | bankruptcy-appeal federal-rules jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se time-bar | Whether a pro se litigant's untimely notice of appeal from a bankruptcy court order can be excused or tolled due to unique procedural circumstances | |
| 25A361 | Michael Rene Garrett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-prisoner post-judgment-motion pro-se | Whether a federal prisoner's pro se 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging a conviction can be procedurally dismissed without a certificate of appealabil… | |
| 25A348 | Adriano Kruel Budri v. Greg Patrick McAllister, et al. | Texas | 2025-09-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process pro-se sanctions texas-supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant was denied due process and violated statutory provisions under the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code when sanctions were … | |
| 25A350 | Vincent Terry v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al. | Georgia | 2025-09-26 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time legal-complexity petition-for-relief pro-se supreme-court-rule | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition warrants extraordinary relief given the complexity of th… | |
| 25A342 | Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass | Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont… | |
| 25A331 | Jacob Matthew Medina v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Presumed Complete | brady-claim certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-right habeas-corpus pro-se | Whether a district court may enforce a collateral attack waiver that prevents a pro se habeas petitioner from presenting a potentially meritorious Bra… | |
| 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 … |
| 25A328 | Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-22 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability federal-appeal legal-resources pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when denied a Certificate of Appealability and fac… | |
| 25-5700 | Patricia Ann Jackson v. John Xiao-Jian Qian, et al. | California | 2025-09-22 | Denied | IFP | affidavit default-judgment judicial-error liberal-construction pro-se truth-in-commerce | Is truth expressed in the form of an affidavit? Is an unrebutted Affidavit fact? Is truth sovereign in commerce? Are pro se filings to be liberally… |
| 25-5670 | Sarai Hannah Ajai v. North Dakota Department of Transportation, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment pro-se rule-4m service-of-process | Petitioner, a pro se civil-rights litigant, challenges the ongoing alteration and redistribution of her state-issued North Dakota REAL ID identificati… |
| 25A301 | Michael Anthony Christopher Cochren, II v. White Castle System, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a one-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari meets the legal standard for good caus… | |
| 25A297 | Brent E. Webster v. Redwood Holdings, LLC, dba Wedgewood Inc. | Oregon | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure court-of-appeals pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a 60-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the complexity of the … | |
| 25A289 | Mary E. Hill v. Malcolm S. Spratley, Sr. | Virginia | 2025-09-12 | Presumed Complete | attorney-withdrawal legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari after experiencing an attorney's alleged breach of professional… | |
| 25A279 | Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond standard deadlines for personal and health … | |
| 25-5598 | Mary Martha McComas v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | IFP | amendment civil-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pleadings pro-se | Whether when denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must provide a reason for that denial (as held by the Third, Sev… |
| 25A273 | Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion autism continuance due-process mental-disability pro-se | Whether a court abuses its discretion in denying a continuance or mistrial for a mentally disabled civil litigant without showing actual prejudice at … | |
| 25-5524 | Wesley Brian Earnest v. Kemsey Bowles, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19 dna-evidence habeas-corpus legal-research pro-se procedural-time-bar | Should pre se, incaccecated Habeas Corpus petitioners be Procedural ly time-bacced when The multi- yeac COVID-19 Pandemic created "Extenocdinary Cireu… |
| 25-5513 | In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello | 2025-09-02 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court mandamus notice-of-appeal pro-se | Whether an Appellant that Proceeded On Appeal Pro Se Oriel Intention^ did So and Without a Course/ and (AUfMout Qnj notice <% Appearance fronn arug Co… | |
| 25A253 | Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a criminal conviction and sentence when the petitioner claims inadequate legal representation and limite… | |
| 25A235 | Anjelica R. James v. Terrence V. Sharkey, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se supreme-court | Whether judicial immunity can be challenged when fundamental due process and parental rights are allegedly violated by lower court actions | |
| 25A222 | Anthony Wayne March v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time federal-prisoner judicial-review motion-filing pro-se supreme-court | Whether a federal prisoner's pro se motion for an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition constitutes a cognizable legal claim warranting j… | |
| 25A209 | Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias | Whether an employment discrimination claim can proceed when a pro se plaintiff alleges workplace bias without meeting specific pleading requirements | |
| 25A210 | Samuel Peter McElmeel v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts constitutional-rights email-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional right to access to courts and preservation of potentially exculpatory evidence is violated by the impending… | |
| 25A202 | Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Judge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights dismissal-as-frivolous fifth-circuit first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se | Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can overcome judicial immunity and First Amendment barriers to challenge a state court judge's actions in fede… | |
| 25-5373 | In Re Markus Odon McCormick | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-dismissal court-ruling judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-reconsideration pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5251 | Shahriar Behnamian v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-clerk deficiency-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se service-of-process summons | 1. Whether a pro se plaintiff has properly served a defendant when the plaintiff serves the defendant himself at the advice of the court's clerk and… |
| 25A107 | Mark H. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2025-07-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari ineffective-assistance legal-complexity pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court given the pro se petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance … | |
| 25A87 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Trooper First Class Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit petition pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | QUESTIONS TO BE PRESENTED (AS CONCEIVED TO DATE): 1. Are officials or law enforcement officers covered by or entitled to a defense of Qualified Immun… | |
| 25-5138 | Stephanie Mykonos v. Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-07-17 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure brief-filing court-administration docketing pro-se writ-of-certiorari | This request is a matter of why the 3-judge panel did address what was implied by a pro se on to Appellate Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 79 on not dire… |
| 25A39 | Kevin Michael Jones v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Administration | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law certiorari jurisdiction pro-se social-security supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a pro se litigant's multi-jurisdictional social security case involving alleged procedural errors… | |
| 25A22 | Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor | Second Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's multiple petitions for certiorari from different circuit court judgments should be considered timely under the 90-day stat… | |
| 25-5035 | Jennifer Lynn Dees, et al. v. Jillian Knox, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity pro-se racketeering | 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantee and congressional intent behind 28 U.S.C. § 1915 prohibit federal courts from dismissing pro se… |
| 24A1289 | Kriston Price v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-06-26 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time incarceration legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a pro se incarcerated petitioner to seek an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on … | |
| 24A1270 | Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling | |
| 24A1208 | Frank Marshall, et ux. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-06-09 | Presumed Complete | court-procedure due-process legal-standing litigation-rights pro-se self-representation | Whether a pro se litigant's self-representation in a state court proceeding violates due process when the litigant lacks formal legal training | |
| 24A1187 | Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration | Federal Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure deadline-extension justice-standard medical-disability pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time for a pro se litigant with medical disabilities to file a writ of certiorari beyond the st… | |
| 24-7311 | Percy L. Harris v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure conviction-review judicial-oversight mississippi-supreme-court pro-se record-omission | Did the appellant receive a proper review from the Mississippi Supreme Court after his conviction was affirmed due to documents that were a part of th… |
| 24-7256 | John Douglas v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights discovery-sanction federal-procedure judicial-discretion pro-se section-1983 | Whether a dismissal of a meritorious and complex de-consolidated Federal Section 1983 lawsuit is appropriate as a discovery sanction when delayed comp… |
| 24A1082 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts due-process filing-fees judicial-review pro-se procedural-rules | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to pay filing fees and comply with procedural rules constitutes an unconstitutional deprivation of access to court… | |
| 24A1058 | Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton | Second Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights emergency-staffing habeas-corpus legal-access prison-conditions pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional right to meaningful access to legal resources is impermissibly burdened when a state correctional facility'… | |
| 24-7048 | Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se | Whether the U.S. District Court abused its discretion by rejecting a pro se Petitioner's motions and denying constitutional rights |
| 24A974 | Greg Gogin v. Michael Meisner, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights federal-appeal prisoner-litigation pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an enlargement of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted when the petitioner claims limited legal … | |
| 24-6949 | Kendrick Christmas v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | IFP | district-attorney equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se supervisory-writ warden | Whether Kendrick Christmas's federal writ of habeas corpus is entitled to equitable tolling during the time he filed for supervisory writs in the Loui… |
| 24-6925 | Arthur J. Burton v. Melody Johnson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-03 | Denied | IFP | district-court judicial-discretion motion-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se reconsideration | Whether a District Judge must rule on a pro se prisoner's motion for reconsideration when filed timely after receipt of judgment |
| 24-1043 | Edward Plummer, Jr. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, et al. | California | 2025-04-01 | Denied | court-notification judicial-system leave-to-amend litigant-rights pro-se substantive-due-process | Does our judicial system deny pro se litigants substantive due process when the courts are remise in ensuring that such litigants are timely and prope… | |
| 24-6912 | Kenneth R. Talley, et al. v. Judith C. Horn, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se | Does a lack of basic literacy skills have significant legal implications for an elderly individual's ability to act as a lawyer to represent himself, … |
| 24A923 | Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal | Whether a pro se prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging constitutional violations can survive sua sponte dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A wit… | |
| 24A914 | Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing | California | 2025-03-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-relief certiorari judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a sixty-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary re… | |
| 24A906 | Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's appeal of a magistrate judge's report and recommendation can be considered jurisdictionally valid when the underlying orde… | |
| 24-6607 | In Re Stephanie Mykonos | 2025-02-21 | Denied | IFP | brief-filing court-of-appeals docketing mandamus pro-se procedural-error | Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to error correct a pro se petitioner's timely filed brief that was not docketed | |
| 24-6524 | Robert Annabel, II v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure complaint-sufficiency dismissal judicial-discretion pleading-amendment pro-se | Does a district court have discretion to allow a pro se plaintiff an opportunity to amend a complaint or dismiss it without prejudice when the complai… |
| 24A764 | Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | agency-rules constitutional-issue due-process loss-calculation pro-se sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' agency-created rules for loss calculation violate due process when applied without judicial deference | |
| 24A765 | Kevin Razzoli v. Richmond University Medical Center, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | daubert-hearing due-process expert-testimony judicial-procedure medical-malpractice pro-se | Whether the district and appellate courts violated a pro se plaintiff's due process rights by failing to conduct a Daubert hearing in a medical malpra… | |
| 24A760 | Andre Bisasor v. Brian Moushegian, et al. | New Hampshire | 2025-02-05 | Presumed Complete | court-rules extension-of-time legal-representation petition-for-certiorari pro-se procedural-fairness | Whether a pro se litigant's lack of legal representation constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari | |
| 24-6468 | Leonard W. Houston v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | IFP | camp-lejeune-justice-act constitutional-rights federal-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se seventh-amendment | Whether the Plaintiff has a right to a jury trial under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act and the Seventh Amendment |
| 24A756 | Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon | Wisconsin | 2025-02-04 | Presumed Complete | child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law jurisdictional-boundaries pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional rights are violated when state family court proceedings restrict a parent's ability to effectively represen… | |
| 24A749 | Frederick Luehring v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights court-order dismissal pro-se section-1983 service-of-process | Whether a pro se plaintiff's failure to serve a complaint and comply with court orders warrants dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b) | |
| 24A740 | Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. | Florida | 2025-01-28 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-claims housing-dispute legal-hardship pro-se procedural-challenge supreme-court-review | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges and constitutional claims regarding housing and legal proceedings warrant extraordinary relief or re… | |
| 24A705 | Angelo Graham v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-01-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-defendant due-process legal-resources pro-se supreme-court-access | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's inability to obtain legal assistance or adequate legal resources constitutes a violation of due process or the r… | |
| 24A692 | Edward Moses, Jr. v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2018 G-CTT | Louisiana | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | banking-law constitutional-challenge foreclosure pro-se property-rights sovereign-immunity | Whether a pro se litigant claiming sovereign status can challenge a foreclosure proceeding based on purported sovereign immunity or constitutional def… | |
| 24A697 | Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violated a pro se prisoner's clearly established constitutional right of access to courts by disregarding h… | |
| 24A689 | Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. | Florida | 2025-01-14 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights discretionary-jurisdiction extension-of-time jurisdictional-requirements pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural errors in seeking discretionary review should be construed liberally under the standard of Haines v. Kerner and… | |
| 24-718 | Blake Andrew Warner v. Hillsborough County School Board | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | federal-court legal-standing litigation parental-representation pro-se statutory-interpretation | Whether children must hire an attorney to pursue their claims in federal court, or whether their parents may instead litigate pro se on their behalf |
| 24A667 | Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Presumed Complete | incarceration page-limit pro-se procedural-obstacles supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether procedural rules governing Supreme Court filings should be interpreted flexibly for pro se incarcerated litigants facing extraordinary circums… | |
| 24A660 | Lidia M. Orrego v. Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Presumed Complete | filing-deadline in-forma-pauperis pro-se procedural-compliance supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's motion for in forma pauperis status and petition for writ of certiorari can be timely considered despite potential procedu… | |
| 24A662 | Nazir Khan v. Artivion, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Presumed Complete | appeal-denial certiorari extension-of-time federal-circuit pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when multiple federal circuit… | |
| 24A654 | Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Presumed Complete | due-process first-amendment jurisdiction lanham-act pro-se trademark-seizure | Whether a district court can issue an ex parte trademark seizure order without proper notice and hearing under 15 U.S.C. § 1116 when jurisdiction is d… | |
| 24A645 | Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-jurisdiction pro-se procedural-dismissal | Whether pro se litigants can overcome procedural deficiencies in a federal civil rights action when alleging systemic filing interference | |
| 24A647 | Owen Marlon Alexander v. Andreea Gleeson, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | complaint-adjudication district-court judicial-review pro-se rehearing-petition second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit and Eastern District of New York courts properly adjudicated a pro se litigant's complaint and subsequent rehearing petitio… | |
| 24A649 | Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | ineffective-assistance jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence plea-withdrawal postconviction-motions pro-se | Whether a criminal defendant's pro se postconviction motions challenging jurisdiction and plea withdrawal based on alleged ineffective assistance of c… | |
| 24A651 | Jared Wade Hinman v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure prison-mailing pro-se supreme-court time-limitation writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se petitioner's motion for leave to file a writ of certiorari can be timely preserved when mailed through the prison mailing system and … | |
| 24A641 | Jose Guillermo Mendez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari indigent legal-resources prison-restrictions pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se indigent prisoner's limited access to legal resources and prison mail restrictions constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifyin… | |
| 24A643 | Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal incarceration legal-resources pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to constraints of incarceration and lack of legal resou… | |
| 24A642 | William White, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus prison-mail pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's delayed receipt of a Court of Appeals order due to prison mail procedures constitutes good cause for an extension of time … | |
| 24A636 | Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | criminal-contempt due-process judicial-proceedings mail-delivery pro-se supreme-court-order | Whether a state supreme court's criminal contempt order against a pro se litigant for disrupting judicial proceedings violates due process when the li… | |
| 24-6174 | David C. Lettieri v. Federal Marshals | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-process access-to-courts bivens-action constitutional-rights federal-agency pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant can be denied access to courts and file a Bivens action without knowing an officer's name |
| 24A612 | Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | certiorari excusable-neglect extension-of-time federal-procedure pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se litigant's multiple concurrent legal proceedings and lack of professional legal training constitute excusable neglect warranting an e… | |
| 24A598 | Robert E. Carter v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | emergency-relief habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se stay-of-proceedings supreme-court | Whether a pro se prisoner's emergency application for a stay of proceedings satisfies the legal standard for extraordinary relief pending potential Su… | |
| 24A593 | Edmund Arthur Gress v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General | Second Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-relief jurisdictional-extension personal-hardship pro-se supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a 60-day extension to file a writ of certiorari due to personal hardship constitutes good cause under Supreme … | |
| 24A563 | Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler | Second Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari pro-se summary-affirmance supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standard for extraordinary circumstance… | |
| 24A557 | Prabhjot Kaur Kang v. Western Governors University | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's employment constraints and need for additional research time constitute sufficient grounds for an extension of time to fil… | |
| 24A560 | Stephanie Mykonos v. Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | case-management circuit-court-review jurisdictional-challenge pro-se procedural-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to district court and circuit court rules regarding case management and time extensions constitute a… | |
| 24A561 | Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | criminal-defendant discretionary-appeal extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis incarceration pro-se | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's motion for extension of time to file a discretionary appeal should be granted when the defendant lacks counsel a… | |
| 24A548 | Jana Shepherd v. Helen Painter & Co., et al. | Texas | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | emergency-motion extension-of-time hardship-exception pro-se procedural-relief supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's emergency motion for an extension of time due to personal hardship meets the legal standard for extraordinary relief from … | |
| 24A554 | Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | criminal-forfeiture cryptocurrency digital-property indigent-prisoner pro-se rule-41g | Whether digital cryptocurrency can constitute property subject to criminal forfeiture and what constitutes sufficient notice for return of property un… | |
| 24-6065 | Joshua Austin Ward v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure defendant-rights hybrid-representation pro-se waiver witness-selection | Whether a pro se defendant's hybrid representation arrangement affects his right to determine witness selection, and if so, what constitutes a valid w… |
| 24A536 | Leo Stoller v. Arizona | Arizona | 2024-12-03 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights pro-se second-amendment supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for a pro se litigant with a disability seeking to challenge a state… | |
| 24A524 | Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. | Massachusetts | 2024-11-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time health-challenges legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the need for legal a… | |
| 24A484 | Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constructive-dismissal fifth-circuit pro-se procedural-dismissal retaliation | Whether a pro se plaintiff alleging workplace retaliation and constructive dismissal can overcome procedural dismissal and seek Supreme Court review o… | |
| 24A477 | James R. Turner, III v. Edward Rapp | Second Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Presumed Complete | in-forma-pauperis mental-health petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se plaintiff suffering from mental health conditions can obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition for writ of certio… | |
| 24A458 | Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-07 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-right constructive-denial ineffective-assistance legal-assistance pro-se sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a finding of constructive denial of counsel when an indigent defendant is denied meaningful legal assistance duri… | |
| 24-5928 | Erick Gachuhi Wanjiku v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se right-to-counsel voir-dire | Whether a pro se litigant's right to due process was violated when the court failed to appoint counsel and declined to rule on all issues presented |
| 24-5920 | Robert Lee Wright, III v. Martin A. Fitzpatrick, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-action constitutional-provisions federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-writ legal-citizenship pro-se | Question not identified. |
| 24A431 | Ronnie L. Thums v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-10-31 | Presumed Complete | certiorari motion-for-reconsideration pro-se supreme-court time-tolling writ | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for reconsideration tolls the time for filing a petition for writ of certiorari when the state supreme court has de… | |
| 24A425 | Brandon Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-appeal extension-of-time pro-se second-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the district court's decision in Mr. Green's criminal case was legally sound and properly affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals | |
| 24A404 | Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tomason | Washington | 2024-10-25 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process family-court judicial-review pro-se | Whether the Supreme Court will review a state court's alleged systemic due process violations in a family law case involving a pro se litigant with di… | |
| 24A402 | Carl Ezekiel Woods v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-24 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-right extension-of-time federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the litigant lacks profes… | |
| 24A398 | Ralph Berry v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure en-banc excusable-neglect legal-resources petition-for-rehearing pro-se | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's failure to timely file a petition for rehearing en banc due to lack of legal resources and understanding constit… | |
| 24A383 | James Garrett and Levi Garrett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal eighth-circuit medical-hardship pro-se supervised-release writ-of-certiorari | Whether pro se litigants who have completed their criminal sentences can seek an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari based on medical hards… | |
| 24A376 | Robert Dorgay v. Paul Reif, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari incarceration law-library legal-research pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se incarcerated prisoner with limited law library access should be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorar… | |
| 24A350 | Eric Shawn Ray v. Christe Quick, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations | Whether a state prisoner can obtain equitable tolling of the one-year federal habeas corpus statute of limitations based on prison lockdowns and delay… | |
| 24A317 | Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn | Second Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari pro-se procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief unde… | |
| 24A306 | Ernest Murphy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari en-banc-petition extension-of-time pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se criminal defendant may seek an extension of time to file a certiorari petition pending resolution of a petition for rehearing en banc… | |
| 24-5619 | Francisco Tineo-Santos v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se rule-60-motion | Whether the denial of a pro se Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the United States Court of Appeals constitutes a merits denial of civil habeas co… |
| 24A276 | Manuel Enrique Yates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause fourth-amendment pro-se search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue | Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause and Venue Clause, and the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, wer… | |
| 24-5551 | Samuel Arnold v. Georgia | Georgia | 2024-09-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-error | Whether a pro se prisoner's petition was improperly denied due to procedural errors and lack of proper legal representation |
| 24A261 | Lilia Belkova v. PNC Bank, N.A. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Presumed Complete | bankruptcy foreclosure lien-rights mortgage-dispute pro-se summary-judgment | Whether a bankruptcy court's summary judgment order allowing a creditor to foreclose on a property can be challenged on appeal when the foreclosure ac… | |
| 24A253 | Kent Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge contempt-proceeding emergency-relief injunctive-stay pro-se state-court | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain emergency injunctive relief to stay a state court contempt proceeding without demonstrating a clear constitutiona… | |
| 24A246 | Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-rights legal-representation pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant is entitled to a 30-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari when facing challenges in obtaining legal repres… | |
| 24A247 | Sam Autry Fletcher v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights habeas-corpus prisoner-litigation pro-se section-2254 technological-evidence | Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition without fully cons… | |
| 24A244 | Richard Rynn v. First Transit Incorporated., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights pro-se rule-60 workplace-injunction | Whether a pro se litigant can challenge a workplace injunction under Rule 60(b) based on alleged constitutional rights violations and procedural irreg… | |
| 24A225 | Alicia Marie Richards v. Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-contempt court-procedure filing-deadline prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion to extend a filing deadline for a certiorari petition constitutes a valid legal request when the underlying civil c… | |
| 24-5415 | Glen Earl Claiborne, Sr. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights judicial-discretion meaningful-attorney-involvement pro-se summary-judgment wrongful-foreclosure | Whether the District Court and Appeals Court committed reversible error and abuse of discretion in a pro se civil rights case involving alleged statut… |
| 24A217 | Tyron Felder v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-appeal habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se | Whether a pro se criminal defendant can obtain a certificate of appealability after the district court and appellate court have denied relief on post-… | |
| 24A204 | Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Presumed Complete | certiorari family-rights guardian-ad-litem jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's family rights claims involving international jurisdictional disputes can survive dismissal under federal appellate review … | |
| 24A198 | In Re Gavin B. Davis | 2024-08-23 | Presumed Complete | bail-pending-appeal extraordinary-circumstances federal-appellate-review prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether a pro se prisoner's Rule 22 application for bail pending appeal satisfies the extraordinary circumstances standard for emergency relief from t… | ||
| 24A187 | Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Presumed Complete | dismissal-with-prejudice district-court fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel pro-se res-judicata | Whether the doctrine of res judicata can bar a pro se plaintiff's claims when the prior dismissal may have resulted from ineffective legal representat… | |
| 24A168 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. | California | 2024-08-12 | Presumed Complete | court-access judicial-review pro-se procedural-rights vexatious-litigant writ-of-mandate | Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's petition for writ of mandate constitutes an impermissible restriction on access to judicial revi… | |
| 24A169 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. | California | 2024-08-12 | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure court-access judicial-restriction legal-filing pro-se vexatious-litigant | Whether a state court can designate a pro se litigant as a vexatious litigant and restrict their ability to file future legal actions | |
| 24A158 | James A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2024-08-09 | Presumed Complete | habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-bar time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources and mental health challenges constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a wr… | |
| 24A148 | Jane Doe v. East Lyme Board of Education | Second Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari litigation pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's personal and professional circumstances constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a pet… | |
| 24A152 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. | California | 2024-08-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-access judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process vexatious-litigant | Whether a state court can summarily deny a pro se litigant's application for relief without providing substantive reasoning when the litigant has been… | |
| 24A131 | Rodney L. Lass v. Jason Wells, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Presumed Complete | habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner may obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when experiencing procedural barriers to timely filing due to i… | |
| 24A133 | Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights district-court-dismissal jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se time-limitation | Whether a pro se plaintiff's untimely notice of appeal in a civil rights case can be excused due to extraordinary circumstances or equitable tolling | |
| 24A137 | Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Presumed Complete | appellate-process extension-of-time incarceration pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted due to unique incarceration c… | |
| 24A125 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. | California | 2024-08-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate | Whether a state appellate court can deny a pro se litigant's petition for writ of mandate without providing substantive reasoning | |
| 24A130 | Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale | Third Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-validity criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plea-of-guilt pro-se suppression-of-evidence | Whether a pro se prisoner's plea of guilty was constitutionally valid given claims of unknowing plea, ineffective assistance of counsel, and suppressi… | |
| 24A119 | Adam Owen Grady v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Presumed Complete | criminal-justice-act eighth-circuit in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether the pro se prisoner's motion for in forma pauperis status and extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted given the … | |
| 24A112 | David Hatchigian v. ABCO, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2024-07-31 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure federal-rules good-cause pro-se supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's motion for an extension of time to file an appeal meets the standard for good cause under Federal Rule of Appellate Proced… | |
| 24A118 | Ty-Ron Steven Anderson v. Chris King, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Presumed Complete | administrative-remedies certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-property pro-se | Whether a state prisoner's failure to timely file a writ of certiorari due to lost legal documents constitutes an extraordinary circumstance warrantin… | |
| 24A111 | Stan Brown v. Corey Pankow, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Presumed Complete | appeal-deadline federal-rules-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction prisoner-litigation pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's untimely notice of appeal can be excused due to unique circumstances or equitable tolling principles when filed beyond the… | |
| 24A99 | Nicolyn Plummer v. New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association | Second Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure dismissal human-rights insurance-underwriting motion-for-reconsideration pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge an insurance underwriting decision through an appeal lacking an arguable basis in law or fact | |
| 24A70 | Ricky Donnell Abner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-prisoner legal-access lockdown pro-se time-extension | Whether a federal prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when experiencing lockdown conditions that impede legal resea… | |
| 24A75 | Vernell White v. California | California | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | court-access legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition due to limited access to legal research resources | |
| 24A57 | Victoria Wong v. Ricky Wong | New York | 2024-07-17 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-representation pro-se procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on financial hardship and personal medical circumsta… | |
| 24A51 | Jonetta L. Grieme v. Shawn Collie, Buchanan County Drug Strike Force, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights disability mental-health pro-se statute-of-limitations tolling | Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff's claims can be time-barred under a state statute of limitations when the plaintiff argues for equitable tolli… | |
| 24A44 | Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's international travel and limited preparation time constitutes sufficient grounds for an extension of time to file a petiti… | |
| 24A32 | Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-rights ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 summary-judgment | Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can challenge a district court's summary judgment dismissal under 42 U.S.C. §1983 after a Ninth Circuit panel … | |
| 24A24 | Terrence Arthur Green v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Presumed Complete | administrative-complaint document-extension prisoner-filing pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a 60-day extension to file a writ of certiorari under Supreme Court Rule 13.5 should be granted given external… | |
| 24A28 | Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extraordinary-circumstances ninth-circuit pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the standard for extraordinary circumstances warr… | |
| 24A14 | Kenneth W. Blair v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari conviction eighth-circuit haines-standard jurisdiction pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's criminal conviction and sentence can be challenged under a liberal construction standard when the Eighth Circuit has affir… | |
| 24A17 | Richard Rynn v. First Transit Incorporated, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure motion-to-vacate ninth-circuit pro-se | Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process by failing to address the merits of a pro se litigant's motions and improperly restric… | |
| 24A21 | H.C. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | equitable-tolling filing-deadline medical-disability pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's physical disability and medical challenges can constitute good cause for equitable tolling of procedural filing deadlines … | |
| 24A2 | Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review federal-circuit judicial-sanction pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Federal Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's sanction order against pro se litigants | |
| 23A1177 | Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision | Second Circuit | 2024-07-02 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights in-forma-pauperis judicial-review motion-to-vacate pro-se | Whether the lower court's denial of a motion to vacate judgment violated the petitioner's constitutional due process rights | |
| 23A1172 | Ran Li v. Yaxin Li | Texas | 2024-07-01 | Presumed Complete | custody-dispute due-process family-law judicial-discretion pro-se texas-supreme-court | Whether the Texas Supreme Court's denial of relief violates due process or constitutes an abuse of judicial discretion in a family law or custody disp… | |
| 23-1356 | Justin K. Holder v. Mark Duvall Thomas | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute injunctive-relief pro-se standing sua-sponte subject-matter-jurisdiction | Did the District Court judge error in law, or abuse his discretion when he sua sponte dismissed Petitioner's pro se complaint for lack of subject matt… | |
| 23A1168 | Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-rights legal-research prisoner-litigation pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a 60-day extension to file a certiorari petition should be granted based on his limited legal research capabil… | |
| 23A1161 | Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal resources due to prison facility restrictions constitutes an extraordinary circumstance justifyi… | |
| 23A1152 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education | |
| 23A1156 | Rona J. Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal jurisdiction pro-se sua-sponte | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a sua sponte dismissal by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for lack of jurisdiction warrant … | |
| 23A1135 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education | |
| 23A1125 | John Ross Stenberg v. Don Langford, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Presumed Complete | legal-resources prisoner-litigation pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources and lack of counsel constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition f… | |
| 23A1113 | Brandan C. Bellamy v. Officer Houghton, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Presumed Complete | certiorari in-forma-pauperis judicial-assistance pro-se procedural-barriers supreme-court | Whether pro se litigants facing procedural barriers in federal court can obtain equitable relief and guidance when attempting to file a Supreme Court … | |
| 23A1101 | Richard Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court | Arizona | 2024-06-12 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-challenge employment-dispute pro-se state-court-remedies workplace-injunction | Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge a workplace injunction on constitutional grounds after exhausting state court remedies | |
| 23A1103 | Rahim Caldwell v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-claims dismissal judicial-procedure no-bid-contracts notice-of-deficiencies pro-se | Whether federal courts are required to provide pro se litigants specific notice of pleading deficiencies before dismissing their complaints | |
| 23A1093 | Donald Ray Malena v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the petitioner lacks acc… | |
| 23A1098 | Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts civil-rights legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se section-1983 | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources due to technical failures constitutes a violation of his constitutional right… | |
| 23A1086 | Charlie R. Murse, Jr. v. Mary Murse | Third Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights disability-benefits garnishment pro-se social-security ssdi-protection | Whether 42 U.S. Code § 407 protects Social Security Disability Insurance benefits from garnishment or civil rights violations in a dispute involving d… | |
| 23A1082 | Eva A. Nieczyperowicz v. Andrew Nieczyperowicz | Texas | 2024-06-04 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure discretionary-review federal-question page-limits pro-se state-court | Whether a pro se litigant's application for discretionary leave to exceed page limits in a state court appeal presents a substantial federal question … | |
| 23-7625 | Henry Sowers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada-accessibility americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection hearing-impairment judicial-accessibility pro-se pro-se-defendant structural-error voir-dire | Does the State violate the ADA and Equal Protection Clause by failing to provide accessibility accommodations for a hearing-impaired pro-se defendant … |
| 23A1051 | Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Presumed Complete | incarceration legal-access pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-filing | Whether a pro se incarcerated litigant's limited access to legal resources constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a Supreme Court wri… | |
| 23-7531 | Tiffany P. Range v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-representation pro-se settlement sexual-harassment standing | How can I settle out with the courts or negotiate an agreement to be made whole? |
| 23A1033 | In Re Rosalind Holmes | 2024-05-20 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion conflicts-of-interest extraordinary-circumstances judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant can demonstrate extraordinary circumstances warranting judicial review of multiple adverse judgments involving alleged syste… | ||
| 23A1027 | Jose Martinez, Jr. v. Montana | Montana | 2024-05-17 | Presumed Complete | correctional-facility legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a 90-day extension to file a writ of certiorari should be granted due to documented challenges in legal resear… | |
| 23A1015 | Christina Brown v. Amazon Headquarters, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-procedure corporate-defendant motion-to-dismiss pro-se wrongful-death | Whether a pro se plaintiff can successfully challenge a district court's dismissal of a wrongful death action against a corporate defendant after deni… | |
| 23-7469 | Kenneth Del Signore v. Nokia of America Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rules due-process false-claims-act medical-records pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing summary-judgment whistleblower-retaliation | Should a Pro Se Plaintiff be granted special considerations by Federal Judges based on their lack of experience with the Federal Rules? |
| 23A1012 | Brent Evan Webster v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari based on personal circumstances and alleged judicial misconduct | |
| 23-7414 | Mark A. VandenBoom v. Robert Strohmeyer | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-precedent precedent pro-se pro-se-litigation | Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judgement conflict with this court's precedents resulting in a limitation of access to the court due to the p… |
| 23-7406 | Bobby Rouse v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment | Is it a violation of appellant's Sixth Amendment constitutional rights for defense counsel to refuse to investigate the evidence and interview witness… |
| 23A987 | Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Presumed Complete | court-filing extension-of-time fourth-circuit hardship petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff experiencing personal hardship and property damage may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… | |
| 23-7378 | Frederick Herrod v. Members of the 79th Congress | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus liberal-construction motion necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se pro-se-litigant speech-and-debate-clause | if-the-congressional-command-of-federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-24(a)(5)-requires-certain-submissions-must-be-included-with-a-motion,-is-a-pro-se-… |
| 23A976 | Michael Edwin Harding v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | collateral-review federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance post-conviction pro-se section-2255 | Whether a federal prisoner can obtain collateral review under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 when procedural barriers prevent timely preparation of a post-convictio… | |
| 23A969 | Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Presumed Complete | case-appeal extension-of-time federal-circuit judicial-review pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether the lower federal court improperly adjudicated a legal dispute involving medical or professional claims between Dr. Usha Jain and other partie… | |
| 23A967 | Christopher Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari institutional-transfer legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when facing institutional transfer and limited… | |
| 23A963 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether the Eighth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case involving a pro se federal inmate improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the petitio… | |
| 23A964 | Peter Paul Mitrano, et al. v. Cary Cucinelli | Virginia | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court-of-virginia | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia violated the petitioners' constitutional due process rights by refusing to grant a petition for rehearing in a c… | |
| 23A961 | John W. Patton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure court-costs in-forma-pauperis indigent-status prisoner-litigation pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's in forma pauperis application satisfies the legal standard for proceeding without prepayment of court costs in federal cou… | |
| 23A959 | Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tosic | Washington | 2024-04-25 | Presumed Complete | ada-accommodations disability-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se | Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments require courts to provide reasonable accommodations and due process protections for pro se litigants with … | |
| 23A953 | Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale | Third Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence administrative-error filing-deadline habeas-corpus pro-se time-bar | Whether a federal habeas petition can be deemed timely when administrative errors prevented the petitioner from receiving critical court correspondenc… | |
| 23A954 | Frederick Ware-Newsome v. Southern Management Companies, LLC | Maryland | 2024-04-23 | Presumed Complete | extension-request medical-procedure personal-hardship pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain a 60-day extension for filing a petition for writ of certiorari based on personal hardship and medical procedures | |
| 23A946 | Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure ineffective-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-default rule-60b | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) can overcome procedural default when the prisoner claims lac… | |
| 23A942 | Angelia and Kelvin Smith v. Snug Owner, LLC | Texas | 2024-04-19 | Presumed Complete | covid-19 eviction jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a state court's judgment regarding potential eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic violates due process rights of pro se litigants | |
| 23A926 | Keith Hager v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-17 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-deadline federal-prisoner judicial-extension post-conviction pro-se section-2255 | Whether a pro se federal prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition after the standard deadline when challenging a distric… | |
| 23A923 | Bryant Christopher Watts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-16 | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction notice-of-appeal prisoner-litigation pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's untimely notice of appeal can be excused under equitable tolling principles when the delay results from alleged procedural… | |
| 23-7236 | Sandra Black v. Naomi Friedrichsen, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-16 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-ruling due-process equal-protection legal-standing pro-se procedural-challenge standing | Should a black pro se litigant with pauper status genuinely be heard in an American court of law? |
| 23A917 | Luis Arana Santiago v. Luis T. Maldonado, et al. | Puerto Rico | 2024-04-15 | Presumed Complete | administrative-action constitutional-rights due-process first-circuit pro-se university-procedure | Whether a state university's administrative actions against a pro se litigant violated his constitutional due process rights | |
| 23A910 | Chen Chen Hsu v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. | California | 2024-04-11 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-illness pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari for a pro se litigan… | |
| 23A911 | George Leslie Vontress v. Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Presumed Complete | indigent legal-research pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether an indigent pro se litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to limited access to legal research resources | |
| 23-7204 | Sean L. Hagins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing | Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless of the passage of time? |
| 23A906 | Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawenceburg | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law appellate-review federal-jurisdiction gaming-commission pro-se standard-of-review | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state gaming commission's decision can overcome the deferential standard of review in federal a… | |
| 23A896 | Lance Taylor v. Texas | Texas | 2024-04-09 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights conviction-review court-proceedings federal-law pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether the lower court's conviction violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and warrants Supreme Court review due to alleged procedural irreg… | |
| 23A898 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-appeal petition-filing pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a criminal defendant's pro se application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted when the underlying app… | |
| 23A904 | Wayne Phillip Vance v. Glen Engstrom, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights due-process equal-protection page-limit pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an exception to its page limit rule to allow a pro se prisoner to file an oversized petition for a writ of cert… | |
| 23A884 | Joshua Marbley v. Teamster Local 988, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-rights labor-law pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file a petition for writ of certiorari due to financial constraints constitutes grounds for an extraordi… | |
| 23-1057 | Paul Johnson v. Matthew Tepper | Texas | 2024-03-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-neutrality party-presentation pro-se pro-se-plaintiff sua-sponte sua-sponte-arguments supreme-court-review | Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the actions of a Texas Court of Appeals, which departed from its role as a neutral arbiter by enga… |
| 23A857 | Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-21 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly dismissed a pro se prisoner's appeal for want of prosecution without providing adequate notice o… | |
| 23A846 | Brandy Thompson v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Presumed Complete | court-deadline extension-of-time medical-conditions pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's medical conditions constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari | |
| 23A840 | Vivian Houston, et al. v. Christopher Klaverkamp, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights court-orders dismissal due-process pro-se willful-disobedience | Whether a district court's dismissal with prejudice of a pro se civil rights action for willful disobedience of court orders violates the plaintiffs' … | |
| 23A833 | Brandon Roberts v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights fourth-circuit legal-access prisoner-litigation pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources constitutes an unconstitutional burden on his right to seek judicial review of his civil… | |
| 23A834 | Raymond Pierson v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc. | California | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari legal-filing pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's competing legal demands and resource constraints constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for cer… | |
| 23A827 | Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-appeal en-banc pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se criminal appellant is entitled to an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when denied en banc review and experiencing limit… | |
| 23-6908 | Shawn Christy v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion judicial-error pro-se right-to-counsel self-representation sentencing-review | Did the district court error in not permitting Mr. Christy to represent himself? |
| 23A817 | Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. | Massachusetts | 2024-03-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review due-process medical-disability pro-se time-extension veterans-rights | Whether due process requires equitable tolling of the certiorari filing deadline when a pro se litigant with a documented medical disability experienc… | |
| 23A813 | Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington | First Circuit | 2024-03-04 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file an appellate brief and pay filing fees warrants dismissal of an appeal under First Circuit procedur… | |
| 23-6885 | Joseph Rendon v. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-04 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealibility circuit-split due-process expert-testimony fair-trial law-enforcement police-expert pro-se pro-se-petitioner | Whether the Sixth Circuit or the Eighth Circuit made the correct ruling regarding denial of due process and fair trial concerning the use of a police … |
| 23-6848 | Stewart Smith v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bias certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel partial-pcra-jurist pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct | Was petitioner's guilty verdict obtained and sustained in violation of due process, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, bias,… |
| 23A797 | Marvin H. Johnson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Presumed Complete | board-of-veterans-appeals disability-compensation effective-date jurisdiction pro-se veterans-benefits | Whether the Veterans Court properly dismissed a pro se veteran's appeal for lack of jurisdiction when the appeal raised claims not previously presente… | |
| 23A784 | Kamal Mustafa v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief under Su… | |
| 23A774 | Dexter Conrad Jackson v. Lavar Ham, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Presumed Complete | appellate-filing-fee civil-procedure district-court-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's in forma pauperis appeal can be dismissed without explicit assessment of the required appellate filing fee | |
| 23A760 | Bruce Wayne Harp v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-20 | Presumed Complete | court-procedure legal-access petition-forms pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se petitioner can obtain Supreme Court petition forms when unable to access them through standard channels | |
| 23-6758 | Frank Bernard Johnson v. Virginia | Virginia | 2024-02-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-competency pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel | Is compulsory pro se representation lawful in criminal trials? |
| 23A743 | Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-02-09 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts covid-19 habeas-corpus law-library prison-conditions pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to a law library during a COVID-19 lockdown constitutes a violation of his constitutional right to meaningf… | |
| 23-855 | Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. | Delaware | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure | Whether a pro se defendant in a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding has full 1st Amendment rights |
| 23A735 | Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari medical-hardship pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's medical condition and surgical recovery constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a pet… | |
| 23A736 | David Timothy Johnson, Sr. v. Urvashi Foster, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation de-novo-trial pro-se procedural-technicality veterans-rights | Whether a pro se disabled veteran's civil rights were violated by procedural technicalities and denial of a de novo trial in a lower court proceeding | |
| 23-6683 | Antoine Poteat v. Gerald Lydon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Pennsylvania State Police, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-process civil-rights fabrication-of-evidence legal-standard malicious-prosecution pro-se pro-se-pleading section-1983 speedy-trial | Whether the Third Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson and McDonough? |
| 23-843 | Robert Michael Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-personnel-actions civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board political-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant standing whistleblower-reprisal | Whether the district court's errors and abuses demonstrate antagonism toward a pro se litigant and favoritism toward a federal defendant |
| 23A721 | William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Presumed Complete | due-process habeas-corpus law-library prison-access pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to prison law library services constitutes a due process violation that warrants an extension of time to fi… | |
| 23A723 | Rufus Young v. Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Presumed Complete | certification legal-document prisoner-filing pro-se service-of-process supreme-court | Whether a pro se prisoner's handwritten legal filing meets the technical requirements for proper service and filing with the U.S. Supreme Court | |
| 23A706 | Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Nebraska | 2024-01-31 | Presumed Complete | certiorari incarceration legal-resources pro-se procedural-barriers supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se, incarcerated petitioner who lacks legal resources and English proficiency should be granted an extension of time to file a Supreme C… | |
| 23-6608 | Mary M. Mooney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process filing-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-59e-motion | Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's timely-filed Rule-59e-motion |
| 23A693 | Jabari J. Johnson v. Correctional Officer Giles, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights dismissal prisoner-litigation pro-se procedural-due-process tenth-circuit | Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint can be dismissed for lack of prosecution without a clear warning or opportunity to show good cause | |
| 23A694 | Jabari J. Johnson v. Carolyn Hansen | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure failure-to-prosecute pro-se procedural-rules tenth-circuit | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to prosecute an appeal constitutes grounds for dismissal under Tenth Circuit procedural rules | |
| 23A695 | John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension want-of-prosecution | Whether a pro se litigant's appeal can be dismissed for want of prosecution when the notice of dismissal was not received until 54 days after the dism… | |
| 23A681 | Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Holding Corporation, et al. | California | 2024-01-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure court-filing forma-pauperis jurisdictional-challenge petition-for-review pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural filings and petition for review can be substantively evaluated when submitted with potential formatting or juri… | |
| 23A678 | Jerome Yelder v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Presumed Complete | covid-19 decision-order extraordinary-relief judicial-proceedings pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's lack of original decision order documentation due to COVID-19 circumstances constitutes grounds for extraordinary relief o… | |
| 23A668 | Aruan Aleman Hernandez v. Palm Beach County State Attorney | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-review pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se civil rights case without adequate review of the merits | |
| 23A670 | Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Director, Haskins House State Wide Transitional Re-Entry Program | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time incarcerated indigent ninth-circuit pro-se | Whether a pro se, indigent, incarcerated litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari when seeking appointed counsel… | |
| 23A675 | Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights dismissal federal-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se rule-12b6 | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for dismissing a pro se civil rights complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6… | |
| 23-772 | David Andrew Bardes v. George W. Bush, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process federal-dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se standing supreme-court | Why does the Constitution, or laws of any kind, not apply to George Walker BUSH or 'his associates? Why has the Constitution failed? Why does the Supr… |
| 23-6473 | Joseph Bergeron v. William Bolin, Warden, et al. | Minnesota | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis informa-pauperis judicial-fairness legal-obstruction minnesota-judicial-system pro-se pro-se-litigation | Can the Minnesota Judicial system deny Informa Pauperis to impoverished Pro Se litigant as a means to obstruct Judicial fairness? |
| 23A649 | Alphonza L.P. Thomas-Bey v. John Stine | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Presumed Complete | court-rules document-preparation filing-challenges legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court will provide relief to a pro se litigant facing procedural challenges in document preparation and filing for a Supreme Court… | |
| 23-6460 | Richard C. Duerson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence pro-se rule-33 sixth-amendment supervisory-power | whether-rule-33-criteria-override |
| 23-6450 | Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether the lower court and defense counsel violated federal rules of civil procedure, due process, and the appellant's constitutional rights |
| 23-735 | Stuart J. Shicks v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-services civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agency jurisdictional-dispute legal-persecution prejudice pro-se psychological-persecution state-agency | Whether psychological persecution, deprivation of constitutional rights and prejudices against pro se litigants is allowed in any court of law or gove… |
| 23A623 | Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-access pro-se senior-citizen supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se senior citizen petitioner should be granted an extraordinary extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition for writ of certiorar… | |
| 23A573 | Faith Townsend v. Rockwell Automation, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Presumed Complete | compliance petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court-rule word-count writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court will grant a pro se litigant's application to exceed the standard word count limit for a petition for rehearing of a writ of… | |
| 23A574 | Wayne Resper v. Yescare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint alleging inadequate medical care by prison healthcare providers states a cognizable claim under the… | |
| 23-6317 | Vicky West, on Behalf of Laura West v. Garnet Hill Rehabilitation and Skilled Care | Texas | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process incapacitated-person indigent-representation legal-standing power-of-attorney pro-se pro-se-representation standing | Whether a legal executed POA, Pro Se which is recognized by the judicial system can be used in a C Court of law to assist or represent indigent and in… |
| 23A563 | Stephen Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se rule-59e rule-60b | Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability to challenge the district court's denial of Rule 60(b) and Rule 59(e) post-convict… | |
| 23A548 | Mary M. Mooney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | circuit-court clerk-error federal-rules motion-for-reconsideration pro-se timely-filing | Whether a pro se litigant's timely motion for reconsideration can be deemed untimely due to a clerk's administrative error when the motion was receive… | |
| 23A528 | Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. | California | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-relief certiorari judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a sixty-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary re… | |
| 23A537 | Armin Wand, III v. Becky Kramer, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time incarcerated-litigant mailbox-rule pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se incarcerated litigant's application for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted under extraordinary circu… | |
| 23A525 | Randall Cope v. Thomas Lillard, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari prisoner-petition pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court Rule 30 | |
| 23A519 | Raul Mendez v. Ada Community Libraries Board of Trustees, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se voting-rights | Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se civil rights complaint by failing to address First Amendment, voting rights, and Equal Protect… | |
| 23A514 | David James Lack v. Matthew Rodriguez | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jury-misconduct ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief pro-se | Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when challenging a state court's denial of post-conviction relief ba… | |
| 23-607 | Morris S. Glover v. Daniel E. Cohen, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | bias case-document court-filing due-process legal-document patent-infringement petition prejudice pro-se scotus summary-judgment | Is this a case of patent infringement where judges are abusing Summary Judgment at the request of the law firm; which showed bias, and prejudice towar… | |
| 23-596 | Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-59 rule-59-motion spoliation-of-evidence | Whether the Lower Courts violated Supreme Court precedents governing pro se pleading |
| 23-599 | Miriam Gladden v. Rayna Woodford, et al. | Maryland | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure defective-motion due-process ex-parte-communication fundamental-rights judicial-bias pro-se standing | Whether the Appellate Court's failure to acknowledge the plain error of Woodfords bringing a defective and improper motion and that the lower court al… |
| 23-6162 | James Williams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure irreconcilable-differences judicial-discretion mckaskle-v-wiggins pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver | When a defendant takes reasonable steps to remedy perceived irreconcilable differences with court-appointed attorney, does the 6th Amendment afford th… |
| 23-6163 | Vidala Aaronoff v. Curtis Olson | California | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-fees civil-harassment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se pro-se-litigant | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a court to construe a pro se litigant's filings liberally in order to enable the litigant to participate as fu… |
| 23A506 | Michael J. Harvey v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Presumed Complete | extension-request filing-deadline legal-obstacles pro-se supreme-court technological-barriers | Whether a pro se litigant's technological challenges, personal circumstances, and time constraints constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary … | |
| 23A500 | Michael W. Bohannan v. Erica Redic, Texas Department of Justice-CID Law Library Supervisor, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights court-sanctions in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's failure to strictly comply with Prison Litigation Reform Act procedural requirements warrants dismissal of a civil rights … | |
| 23A490 | Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. | North Carolina | 2023-11-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-dismissal due-process pro-se procedural-fairness supreme-court-jurisdiction will-contest | Whether a state court's unexplained dismissal of a pro se litigant's will contest appeal violates fundamental due process rights | |
| 23A484 | Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. | North Carolina | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal certiorari due-process judicial-explanation pro-se state-court | Whether the North Carolina state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by dismissing her appeal without providing a substantive explanat… | |
| 23-576 | Sohail M. Abdulla v. Southern Bank | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing | Is the right to due process being violated for pro se litigants? | |
| 23-6136 | Shawn C. Leftwich v. State Farm Insurance Company, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process pleadings pro-se procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Honorable Court in the United States District of Georgia Harta Division Abused Plaintiff's Procedural Due Process Rights |
| 23-6126 | Wayne M. English v. Parcel Express, Inc. | Texas | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigant texas-constitution | Can the State of Texas through its judiciary ignore the state's own legislative intent, the Texas Bill of Rights, the Federal Constitution and the due… |
| 23A478 | Rufus E. Dennis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor | Whether a circuit split exists regarding the proper interpretation of the elements of criminal attempt that conflicts with the Supreme Court's holding… | |
| 23A479 | Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-filing emergency-application judicial-review pro-se procedural-dismissal | Whether a pro se litigant's emergency application for relief can be procedurally dismissed due to incomplete or improperly filed materials | |
| 23A464 | Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-11-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-rights attorney-malpractice constitutional-due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se right-to-counsel | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his retained attorney failed to timely file a… | |
| 23A456 | Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari jurisdiction legal-standards mandamus pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief when… | |
| 23-6059 | Michelle A. Ferrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Federal Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-bias judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation standing whistleblower-protection | Why did the Federal Circuit Court ignore Petitioner's MSPB case regarding her IRA |
| 23A434 | Ernesto L. Natividad v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner pro-se writ-of-habeas-corpus | Whether a pro se incarcerated petitioner can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when awaiting a response from the Circuit Court … | |
| 23A437 | William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | extension-request federal-court habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-rules | Whether a federal district court properly denied a pro se prisoner's request for a 30-day extension to file a habeas corpus petition under federal pro… | |
| 23A438 | Lynn Richard Norton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time federal-court interest-of-justice petition-for-certiorari prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a brief extension to file a petition for certiorari should be granted in the interest of justice | |
| 23A430 | Ernest Bustos v. Encino Park Homeowners Association, et al. | Texas | 2023-11-14 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fraud-upon-court pro-se supreme-court-precedent | Whether the lower courts violated a pro se litigant's due process rights by dismissing appeals based on procedural technicalities rather than addressi… | |
| 23A425 | Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation | Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of vexatious legal actions can constitute an abuse of judicial process warranting sanctions | |
| 23-5972 | Barney A. Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-statement notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appellant procedural-default | Whether the Court of Appeals' disposition on the notice of appeal issue should be vacated |
| 23A409 | Jeffery Wooden v. Town of Eatonville, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Presumed Complete | counsel deadline financial-hardship pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a criminal defendant's financial hardship constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari | |
| 23A408 | Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-access prisoners-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether pro se prisoners can obtain a 60-day extension to file a Supreme Court certiorari petition due to institutional limitations that substantially… | |
| 23A400 | Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-filing prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's transportation between correctional facilities and resulting delay in accessing legal materials constitutes good cause for… | |
| 23A401 | R. Allen Stanford v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extraordinary-relief pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se petitioner's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition constitutes a legally cognizable claim for extraordinary … | |
| 23A392 | Brenda Dawson Battle v. Atty Creel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal judicial-immunity pro-se section-1983 | Whether a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against multiple judicial and law enforcement officials can survive dismissal when alleging potenti… | |
| 23A381 | Terrence Thomas v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time prisoner pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court | Whether a pro se prisoner's application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court procedural ru… | |
| 23-5871 | Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Denied | IFP | appeals criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-sanction pro-se pro-se-prisoner vexatious-litigator | Whether judges and magistrates can collectively craft orders to impose a vexatious litigator tag on a pro se prisoner and ban his filings to appeal hi… |
| 23-5822 | Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-rules jurisdiction jurisdiction-statement motion-for-permission pro-se rule-54b standing | Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| 23-5750 | Todd Ferry v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure brady-violation civil-rights default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-petition state-court | Did the State and the Federal Habeas courts' decision that ineffective-assistance-of-counsel issues were defaulted conflict with precedents |
| 23-231 | Linda A. Porter v. Kennard Law PC, dba Kennard Richard PC, et al. | Texas | 2023-09-12 | Denied | appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether the appellate court violated Porter's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights | |
| 23-5552 | Lei Yin v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. | Massachusetts | 2023-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-bias legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-rights standing worker-compensation | Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Court Systems in COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS? |
| 23-222 | Dawn M. White, et vir v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights close-relationship court-criteria due-process hindrance legal-capacity legal-standing pro-se pro-se-representation procedural-rights spousal-representation standing | Can a husband represent the interests of his wife in a pro-se capacity if they meet the criteria previously established by this Court for a close rela… |
| 23-5401 | Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing | Why did the court deny Mr. Christmas at least one chance to amend, if it is possible to fix what court thank is wrong with Mr. Christmas's complaint |
| 23-5100 | Vassil Marinov v. FCA US LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fair-trial pro-se religious-freedom standing | Is it constitutional for a court to dismiss a case seeking to restore constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom due to procedural issues with the … |
| 23-5077 | In Re Ronald Boyajian | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-court appeal-of-right appellate-procedure appointed-counsel court-access due-process legal-representation ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation supplemental-brief | Did the Ninth Circuit violate the defendant-appellant's due process right of access to the court in denying his pro se supplemental brief? | |
| 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 dis… |
| 23-5032 | L. Brian Whitfield v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pro-se standing state-prisoner | Whether a district court abused its discretion by failing to use its own factual finding as proof that a claim was actionable |
| 23-5007 | Alexis Carberry Benson, on Behalf of Minor Child K.C., Jr., et al. v. Fort Mill Schools/York County District 4, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice ada district-court-jurisdiction idea idea-law in-forma-pauperis individual-immunity pro-se right-to-counsel section-1983 | Should Plaintiffs/Parents filing a Federal Complaint through IDEA Section 504 or ADA, be accorded the right to counsel when filing pro se' and/or in f… |
| 22-7888 | Desean Lamont Thomas, nka Pharaoh El-Forever Left-I Amen El v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2023-06-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | due-process economic-barrier expert-testimony expert-witness indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se strickland-standard | If a state conditions satisfying Strickland's first prong, on the testimony of two privately funded expert witnesses against a indigent pro se prisone… |
| 22-1235 | Brandon E. Ogbolu v. Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-duty disability-discrimination due-process emotional-distress felony-conduct pro-se public-interest standing sua-sponte | Whether lower courts have a constitutional duty to sua sponte assess all unlawful conduct and harm to the public interest |
| 22-7799 | Gregory Smith v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-illness pro-se pro-se-defendant | Should a certificate of appealability issue to debate the matter of counsel being appointed to aid a pro se defendant suffering from retardation and m… |
| 22-7786 | Lei Yin v. Biogen Inc. | First Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure judicial-discretion legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing | Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Federal Court System? |
| 22-1198 | Joe Patrick Flarity v. Argonaut Insurance Company, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | -administrative-review -constitutional-due-process -equal-protection -judicial-bias -pro-se-rights #NAME? 9th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se standing | 9th Circuit Prejudice Against Pro Se Plaintiffs Bolsters State Abuses |
| 22-7737 | Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson | South Dakota | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure beneficiary-standing civil-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation real-party-in-interest rule-60b-motion standing trust-beneficiary trust-representation trust-trustee trustee-rights | Whether the sole beneficiary and sole trustee of a trust is the real party interest and can represent that trust pro se? |
| 22-7668 | Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal, et al. | California | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant trial-court | Whether the 1st and 14th Amendment impose a duty on the trial court to inform and provide certain warnings and opportunities to pro se litigants prior… |
| 22-1127 | Christine Sawicky v. Tao Sykes, Manuel Real Beneficiary, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment bribery due-process equal-protection honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity pro-se pro-se-litigation | How can the DOJ bring multiple indictments for judges in several circuits, inclusive of counts for honest services fraud and bribery, but then represe… |
| 22-7596 | Ripdaman Narula v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights crime-reporting criminal-procedure default-judgment due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review law-enforcement pro-se standing victim-rights | pro-se-rights,default-judgment,crime-reporting,police-obligations,crime-victim-rights,judicial-power |
| 22-7441 | Colette Claire Savage v. Mark Savage | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-corruption judicial-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigation standing | Are motions to dismiss used administratively to hastily dispose of meritorious and government corruption cases especially targeting pro se litigants? |
| 22-7415 | Ricky Pendleton v. Donald Ames, Superintendent, Mt. Olive Correctional Center | West Virginia | 2023-05-01 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constructive-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice pro-se res-judicata | Whether the State courts's doctrine of res judicata was applied adequately after it summarily denies Pendleton's pro se filings of the successive habe… |
| 22-7396 | Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause | Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1… |
| 22-1047 | Rhonda J. Leaf, nka Rhonda J. Ring v. Brian E. Leaf | Delaware | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal pro-se property-rights standing | Was Rhonda J. Leaf (nka-Ring)'s 14th amendment right violated along with her due process in the law? Was there an impartial tribunal? |
| 22-1032 | Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | article-iii civil-procedure due-process duty-to-defend federal-jurisdiction first-amendment insurance-contract pro-se tax-exempt tax-exempt-corporation | Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Circuit) correctly determined the jurisdictional power of the federal court over Ins… | |
| 22-1036 | Ronda L. Cormier v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit meaningful-access pro-se pro-se-appeal summary-judgment willis-v-cleco | Did the Fifth Circuit's automatic application of Willis v. Cleco violate the pro se Petitioner's rights to equal-protection, meaningful-access-to-cour… |
| 22-7365 | Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | amendment-rights civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit frcp-rule-60 judicial-review patent phillips-v-county-of-allegheny pro-se rule-60 standing | Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
| 22-7313 | Rakim Moberly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-court-standard compassionate-release criminal-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-step-act notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appeal | Whether the petitioner's letter to the district court clerk qualified as a notice of appeal |
| 22-7300 | James D. Sullivan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability counsel-abandonment counsel-misconduct federal-bench habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice plea-withdrawal pro-se pro-se-representation standing | Will this Court remand with a certificate of appealability in a case where a district court perverted the habeas-corpus-process, counsel-misconduct, f… |
| 22-7278 | Christopher J. Ward-Malone v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pro-se standing summary-affirmance | Whether the denial of certiorari on summary affirmance of the district court's denial of pro se habeas petition was proper |
| 22-956 | Paul Johnson v. Bastrop Central Appraisal District | Texas | 2023-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-justice civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus-writ pro-se public-information standard-of-proof standing statutory-interpretation texas-law | Should the State of Texas create a separate standard of proof in statutory Writ of Mandamus cases that denies the poor and pro se requesters access to… |
| 22-7125 | Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights critical-stage federal-law pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standby-counsel waiver-of-counsel | Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded there was no clearly established Federal law from the Supreme Court holding that the Sixth Amendment is … |
| 22-745 | Gilbert Roman v. Fire Life Safety America, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct misconduct obstruction-of-justice pro-se pro-se-rights | Did 1 or more court clerks cause obstruction-of-justice, deny-due-process, acted-with-misconduct, deny-14th-amendment-rights, deny-7th-amendment-right… |
| 22-726 | Alejandro Evaristo Perez v. LinkedIn Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | anti-slapp bioweapon-allegations civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct pro-se rule-40 standing takings veterans veterans-rights | Whether the excommunication of an Honorable US War Veteran (and paying customer) by Fallen Federal Judges and unpatriotic Corporatistas for the evil C… | |
| 22-6611 | Joseph P. Counts v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights cohen-collateral-order due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-counsel notice-of-appeal pro-se standing timeliness urgent-matters | Whether district courts must rule on pro se motions regardless of representation |
| 22-6588 | In Re Beverly A. Jenkins | 2023-01-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection instructions legal-notice lower-tribunal notice prima-facie pro-se standing | Is it herein shown that the LT deviated from Sufficient Instructions/required sufficient Notice for non-counsel litigants? | |
| 22-6548 | United States, ex rel. David Shu v. Nancy Hutt, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | IFP | attorney-general civil-rights district-court due-process false-claims-act legal-center lincoln-law pro-se standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a pro se is allowed to initially file a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint in a district court without a lawyer? |
| 22-6539 | Israel Romero v. Allwell from Absolute Total Care, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction documentary-evidence federal-question pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-28-usc-1915 summary-judgment | Whether a motion for summary judgment can be denied as premature |
| 22-648 | Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | due-process equal-protection forfeiture judicial-discretion ninth-circuit padgett-fraud pre-filing-order pro-se pro-se-appeals waiver | Whether the Ninth Circuit has been denying Due Process by applying a purportedly categorical rule | |
| 22-6454 | Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 | Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights |
| 22-6375 | Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington, United States Trustee | First Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process nationality pro-se pro-se-litigant religion | Whether the circuit court of appeal erred in allowing the respondent to violate the petitioner's constitutional rights due to discrimination based on … |
| 22-6383 | James T. Woo v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-12-22 | Denied | IFP | case-files civil-rights discovery discovery-access due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction post-conviction-claims pro-se pro-se-defendant protective-order | Whether the district court improperly misused a protective order to deprive a pro se defendant of access to materials outside the scope of the order a… |
| 22-6351 | Shane Webster Upchurch v. Wastequip, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights jurisdiction-issue pro-se pro-se-plaintiff retaliatory-discharge summary-judgment workers-compensation | Whether it was error to grant summary judgment to the defendant where the pro se plaintiff was not given any opportunity to engage in discovery |
| 22-548 | Randall E. Rollins v. Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction justice-courts pro-se pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity | Did the court below err in not considering the issue that pro se litigants in Texas justice courts are treated unequally from all litigants in non-jus… |
| 22-6249 | Ruben James Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-reopen notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-deficiency | Whether a pro se litigant's 'Notice of Appeal' constitutes a liberally-construed 'Motion to Reopen Time to File' as well as a 'Notice of Appeal |
| 22-6198 | Darrel Thorn v. Racetrac Petroleum, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-leniency meaningful-opportunity pro-se pro-se-litigation standing | Whether the procedural treatment currently afforded to pro-se litigants by federal courts comports with due process or whether more leniency is requir… |
| 22-6175 | Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention | Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code § 1983, after exhausting all known… |
| 22-6152 | Carlos Edward Kennedy v. Carla Jones | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure continuance discretion forensic-evidence pro-se | Did the trial court abuse its discretion in denying Kenner's motion for continuance when Kenner, while acting pro se, requested only an additional 3 m… |
| 22-6070 | Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. | New York | 2022-11-16 | Denied | IFP | aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation | Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct, in… |
| 22-6035 | Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California | California | 2022-11-10 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits | Does the state of California criminal appeal time limit (time bar) violate the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment equal protection clause pertaining t… |
| 22-5887 | Joseph Michael DeGraw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-construction section-2254 section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts should construe pro se state prisoner pleadings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 using the same standard as 28 U.S.C. 2255 federal prisoner… |
| 22-5785 | Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas | Texas | 2022-10-07 | Denied | IFP | attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent | Whether state courts are required to accept and rule on the merits of claims presented in writs of habeas corpus by prisoners who dismiss their attorn… |
| 22-5742 | Reggie D. Caswell v. Steven Racetti | Second Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-appeal sentencing-consequences trial-exhibits | Whether a state that permits pro se criminal appeals must provide a complete and sufficient record for the appeal, as required by the Due Process and … |
| 22-5703 | Charles Michael Ledford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations summary-dismissal | Whether it is inconsistent with this Court's Slack v. McDaniel 524 U.S. 473 (2002) standard for a Court of Appeals to decline to issue a Certificate o… |
| 22-290 | Anne-Marie Mendible v. Special Proceedings Department of the Wake County Court, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant res-judicata standing subject-matter-jurisdiction truth-in-lending-act | Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it | |
| 22-5666 | Arturo Cano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing | Whether being presented by counsel at the state initial-collateral proceedings is a determinative factor for obtaining an evidentiary hearing before a… |
| 22-5607 | Steven Justin Villalona v. Mr. Hansen, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine federal-rules-civil-procedure filing houston-v-lack notice notice-of-judgment pro-se pro-se-prisoner statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court's holding in Houston v. Lack was based on equity or the interpretation of the word filed? |
| 22-5581 | Alfonso Ponton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 castro-v-united-states castro-warning district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations | Whether a district court's recharacterization of a prior pro se pleading as a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition without the warnings required by… |
| 22-5494 | Michael Dale Talley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii article-three due-process judicial-review judicial-supervision non-delegation pro-se pro-se-appeals rule-making-authority staff-attorney staff-attorneys | Whether the Staff Attorney Programs in the lower courts violate non-delegation principles of Article III duties to non-Article III decision makers; ex… |
| 22-5444 | Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | IFP | expert-witness indigent-litigants judicial-notice medical-evidence medical-information pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-201 rule-706 undue-burden | Does requiring an expert witness to present medical information create an undue burden on the courts and unfairly prejudice pro se, indigent litigants… |
| 22-5332 | Jerome Mellion v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection manslaughter pro-se state-court-decisions state-supreme-court | Did the Louisiana state supreme court violate the federal U.S. 14th amendment to the federal constitution 'equal protection' of law guarantees |
| 22-5221 | Jim Scott Lundi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-denial civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se standing | Whether appellate courts unconstitutionally enacted 28-usc-2101 and the conflicted arbitrary denial and conclusion of law violated petitioner's pro-se… |
| 22-5171 | Rebekah Werth v. Stuart Police Department, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff legal-standards pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal | Do the sua sponte dismissals by the lower courts under the in forma pauperis statute 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) (2) (B), in which the reviewing court merely… |
| 22-39 | Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights divine-intervention due-process judicial-petition jurisdiction mandamus mandarin-interpreter pro-se religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-communication standing | Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelations and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law |
| 21-8235 | Joshua Dicks v. Natasha Davis | Arkansas | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-diligence civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant waiver-of-appeal | Whether the Arkansas Court's application of 'attorney diligence' waiver of right to appeal rules to pro se litigants in private termination of parenta… |
| 21-1590 | Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se | Whether a litigant in pro se can be denied their right to due process under the 5th and 14th Amendments solely based on the court's assumption that th… |
| 21-8222 | Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing | Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits federal courts from holding pro se litigants to the same stringent standards as attorneys |
| 21-8204 | Reginald Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture ineffective-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment | Whether the district court erred by denying the motions for severance? |
| 21-8186 | In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson | 2022-06-21 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority district-court due-process filing-refusal habeas-corpus petition-rights pro-se standing | Whether the United States District Court Clerk was constitutionally authorized to refuse to file a pro se litigant's petition for habeas corpus | |
| 21-8070 | Mike Allen v. Kaden Adams | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-procedure due-process failure-to-state-a-claim pro-se standing | Can I proceed with my appeal at the SCOTUS? |
| 21-8073 | Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jen, aka Jennifer, aka Jennifer Sullivan, aka Lei Sullivan, aka Lei v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine court-of-appeals criminal-procedure divestiture-rule final-judgment non-appealable-order pro-se pro-se-status sentencing-phase | Can a criminal defendant immediately appeal the revocation of her pro se status by a district court judge sua sponte during the trial? |
| 21-8078 | Daniel Taylor v. Leslie Fleming, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | IFP | appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se standing | Question not identified |
| 21-8055 | In Re Shane Jeansonne | 2022-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing | Writ of Mandamus | |
| 21-8061 | Barbrie Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-06 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc-exhaustion employment federal-courts indigent-plaintiff legal-representation pro-se summary-judgment title-vii | Who has responsibility to inform indigent pro se complainant of right to counsel in Title VII action? |
| 21-1529 | Jian Wang, aka James Wang v. International Business Machines Corporation | Second Circuit | 2022-06-06 | Denied | asl-interpreter civil-rights deaf-litigant deaf-litigants due-process equal-protection pro-se property-rights | Whether the Petitioner, as a Deaf plaintiff in a civil proceeding, was denied property rights without due process and equal protection of the laws tha… | |
| 21-8022 | William Dew v. S. Columbia Terrace, LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process factual-deficiencies motion-to-dismiss neitzke-v-williams pleadings pro-se sua-sponte | Whether the district court may dismiss a non-prisoner pro se complaint sua sponte basis of factual deficiencies in complaint or must wait until defend… |
| 21-7999 | Kristine Arutyunyan v. Cindy Fields, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship federal-question pro-se public-importance standing supreme-court-rule | Whether the pro se civil lawsuit based on federal question and diversity of citizenship has merit and should be heard by the Supreme Court |
| 21-7976 | Mark A. Hill v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se right-to-counsel standing | Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for cla… |
| 21-7946 | Jesse Manuel Skinner v. GPCH-GP, Inc., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure injunctive-relief pro-se section-1983 standing without-prejudice | whether-pro-se-plaintiff-has-right-to-withdraw-complaint-without-prejudice |
| 21-7924 | Timothy S. Smith v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process pro-se standing | Whether the courts of Minnesota have the authority to deny a pro se litigant's request for appointment of counsel in a civil rights case |
| 21-7906 | Ruben Sanchez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-05-18 | Denied | IFP | adequate-representation due-process judicial-consideration legal-representation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal pro-se public-defender withdrawal | Does a Pro Se plaintiff have a due process right to the adequate performance of counsel when represented by a public defender for the purpose of withd… |
| 21-1442 | In Re Adriano Kruel Budri | 2022-05-16 | Denied | appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing | Did the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err by dismissing for want of prosecution a pending Appellant's Opening Brief filed i… | ||
| 21-7850 | Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Dismissed | IFP | ada-disability appeal appellate-jurisdiction clerk-error constitutional-rights counsel-substitution habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-substitute-counsel pro-se pro-se-motions | Question not identified |
| 21-7817 | Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. Dentist, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process incarceration medical-care pro-se | Whether the petitioner has the right to receive copies of court filings |
| 21-1391 | Robert Kelly, Jr. v. City of Mount Vernon, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights court-ruling due-process judicial-duty legal-information oral-decision oral-rulings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rights standing | To what extent do courts have an affirmative duty to fully inform pro se litigants of courtroom decisions and rulings issued orally from the court, an… | |
| 21-7741 | David Mejia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding fraud on the court not a substantive constitutional violation of due process? |
| 21-7746 | David Piper, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion aedpa aedpa-deadline certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition | Whether the Court of Appeals denying Piper's 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence for a Certificate of Appealability reasons were… |
| 21-7628 | Cedric Lee Goliday v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review constitutional-infringement constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review pro-se | Whether a federal habeas court can intentionally slight, dissemble, and neglect a pro se applicant's petition |
| 21-1309 | Wendy Meigs v. Todd Zucker, et al. | Texas | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations court-bias court-corruption due-process due-process-rights judicial-system-accountability legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-discrimination | Does this Country contribute to Court Bias, Violations of Due Process and Constitutional Rights, and Discrimination in courts by consciously ignoring … |
| 21-7469 | Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process legal-proceeding pro-se summary-judgment video-evidence | Did the district court and the United States Court of Appeals fail to consider Petitioner's opposition to Respondent's cross-motion for summary judgme… |
| 21-7383 | Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | IFP | abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho… |
| 21-7336 | Karsten O. Allen v. J. Mayo, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prison-conditions prisoner-litigation pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-defect state-created-rights virginia-department-of-corrections | Does the language of Virginia's statutes and Department of Corrections' Operating Procedures establish a state-created liberty interest in good time e… |
| 21-7308 | Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University | District of Columbia | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing | Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process by failing to consider all of the pet… |
| 21-7315 | Michael Lynn Cash v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions | Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as successive without considering the petitioner's claims on t… |
| 21-1211 | Constance George v. House of Hope Recovery, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Amici (2) | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant service-of-process service-requirement standing | Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 permits a court of appeals to dismiss an appeal because the appellant did not serve the notice of appeal |
| 21-7245 | Julia Ann Poff v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether a defendant who is not represented by an attorney can be denied the right to file a pro se motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 21-7127 | Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP | District of Columbia | 2022-02-16 | Denied | IFP | appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing | Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order |
| 21-7131 | Bobby Ray Jones v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se schlup-v-delo slack-v-mcdaniel | Whether the courts below erred in denying Jones a certificate of appealability |
| 21-7112 | Sophana Sovann v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice-of-judgment pro-se right-to-appeal | Was a pro se state prisoner denied his right to appeal the District Court's order denying his habeas corpus petition? |
| 21-7027 | Raul Mendez v. Ada County, Idaho, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection-clause frcp-12(b)(6) mandatory-services motion-to-dismiss pro-se property-tax-lien standing | Is a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) a ruling on a question of law? If so, is this Motion inappropriate when applied to Pro se complaints? |
| 21-7028 | Fred Pride v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law due-process equal-protection informal-claim medical-record pro-se pro-se-veteran va-medical-records veterans-affairs veterans-benefits | Whether the VA failed to ensure due process and equal protection for a pro se veteran by not examining all claims found in the medical record |
| 21-7001 | Adam J. Tenser v. Beth Silverman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-interpretation legal-solicitude liberal-construction pro-se self-representation slander standing | Whether this Court's articulation of the pro se liberal construction rule in Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 529 (1972) implies a general withdrawal of the… |
| 21-6958 | Vorarut Vorasiangsuk v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit formatting-deficiency motion-to-exceed-page-limit motion-to-supplement prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion and violated due-process, civil-procedure, pro-se |
| 21-6938 | David Charles Sussman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Florida | 2022-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process filing-restrictions pro-se suspension-clause | Does the Fla. court's imposition of an all-inclusive, total pro se filing bar violate the Suspension Clause of U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 9? |
| 21-1032 | Jason T. Berry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. | First Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment cell-phone-intrusion civil-procedure en-banc-review evidence exceptional-importance fbi-abuses fourth-amendment mandate-recall pro-se pro-se-litigation standing | Whether additional evidence of claims occurring while a judgment is pending and immediately after case closure merit recall of a mandate |
| 21-6847 | John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit | Whether a pro-se-state-prisoner-adequately-alleged-gateway-actual-innocence-claim |
| 21-6765 | Hitoshi Ombe v. George Cook, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-liberty due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment mental-disability pro-se pro-se-litigant | How the Court should respond to pro se litigant with mild mental disability, e.g., highly functional autism disability (i.e., least severe autism spec… |
| 21-967 | Pius Barikpoa Nwinee v. St. Louis Developmental Disability Treatment Centers, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | administrative-process civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equitable-tolling pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-sue-letter title-vii | Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a pro se litigant's mistaken belief about EEOC filing requirements? | |
| 21-969 | Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-courts | Has the Trial Court accurately conclude that the Pervasive Bias which is evident in the states' justice systems, also extends even to this This Honora… |
| 21-935 | McIlwain, LLC, aka Timothy J. McIlwain, Attorney at Law v. Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection osborn-v-bank-of-the-united-states pro-hac-vice pro-se rowland-v-mens-colony subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment transunion-llc-v-ramirez | Did the court below err in not considering the subject-matter-jurisdiction |
| 21-6716 | Fernando Romero v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion counsel-appointment district-court-discretion expert-opinion ineffective-assistance investigation pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-claim | Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying petitioner's motion to appoint counsel |
| 21-6725 | Russ Scohy v. Pinellas County Code Enforcement Division | Florida | 2021-12-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-trespass pro-se pro-se-access property-rights search-and-seizure takings warrant-violation | Whether trespass by government officials without a warrant, illegal search and seizure, and excessive fees resulting in loss of property violate const… |
| 21-924 | Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping | Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain… |
| 21-6678 | Raul Mendez v. City of Boise, Idaho, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | IFP | 1983-statute 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure due-process mandatory-billing municipal-liability pleading-standard pro-se property-tax-roll utility-services | Can local government entities take adverse actions against its citizens without Due Process for not using the provided utility services? |
| 21-6613 | DeAndre Russell, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-act pro-se standing stare-decisis | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-6603 | Joanna Blauch v. City of Westminster, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process equal-protection false-statements justiciability pro-se public-records standing supervisory-liability | Whether ignoring live controversies defies U.S. Supreme Court justiciability standards requiring cause applied to injury-in-fact? |
| 21-6607 | In Re Andrew Thomas Burns, Sr. | 2021-12-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error waiver-inquiry | Did the trial court's failure to conduct an affirmative waiver inquiry prior to ordering petitioner to proceed pro se at trial, deny petitioner of his… | |
| 21-6496 | Christopher Wood v. Florida | Florida | 2021-12-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-information due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction pro-se standing supreme-court | Did The Supreme Court Violate The 14th, 5th and Other Amendments To The United States Constitution as well as Clearly Established Federal Law when it … |
| 21-6407 | Roy Thomas Phillips v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process ineffective-counsel liberal-reading merits plea-proceedings plea-stage pro-se pro-se-petitioners | Whether the factual determination for denying the certificate of appealability was wrong and reversal is warranted |
| 21-6420 | Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering | Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 21-6313 | Glen Plourde v. Knox County, Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction human-rights judicial-abuse judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation standing torture-allegations | Does the well-evidenced fact that a sua sponte dismissal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ! 1915(e)(2), and The Appeal's Court's subsequent upholding of that dec… |
| 21-6304 | Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland | Minnesota | 2021-11-16 | Dismissed | IFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se | Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to an i… |
| 21-6252 | Ryder Shane Altman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se | Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f… |
| 21-6183 | In Re Charles Gary Bruce | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se | When a petitioner makes a prima facie showing of constitutionally impermissible conduct by prosecution, must court hold a Franks hearing to investigat… | |
| 21-630 | Harry Barnett v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-reconsider pro-se standing | Whether a District Court's striking of a timely-filed Motion to Reconsider violates due process rights |
| 21-6073 | John Ray Falk, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-liability capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea law-of-parties notice plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-defendant | Whether a pro se defendant must be informed of the prosecution's theory of his own criminal liability when pleading guilty to a death-eligible homicid… |
| 21-6072 | Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights clause 2 for obstruction-of-justice due-process federal-jurisdiction standing judicial-foreclosure jurisdictional-issue pro-se section-1343 section-1985 sua-sponte | Whether a putative claim under 42 U.S.C. §1985(2) |
| 21-6079 | Austin Brand v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | art-canon civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-order oregon-law pro-se standing supreme-court | Is the maxim advised to the Oregon Supreme Courts mandamus order pre-discretionary to disposition concerning a judicial body's bias and awe inspiring … |
| 21-5978 | Derek Levert Hall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure indigent-defendant pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel waiver | Whether an indigent criminal defendant's waiver of trial counsel requires a clear and unequivocal request to proceed pro se |
| 21-5909 | Sands Cooper v. Advanced Internet Automation, LLC, et al. | Virginia | 2021-10-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attorney-misconduct civil-procedure evidence evidence-tampering false-document federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b) judicial-misconduct pro-se procedural-defect workers-compensation | Should the defendant be awarded for criminally entering a false document that was used by the Court's Officer as evidence as a result of attorney misc… |
| 21-5901 | Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment | Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal judgment toll the limitation period under the 'properly filed' clause of 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-5865 | Glen Plourde v. Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-abuse pro-se pro-se-litigant standing torture | Does the continual disenfranchisement of the Petitioner by The Federal Courts' violate the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights to Subst… |
| 21-5752 | Ivan Alexandrovich Vetcher v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-court civil-rights controlled-substances court-access-rights deportation-challenge dismissal-with-prejudice due-process immigration immigration-law pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleading | Whether the district court and court of appeals properly applied the requirements for pleadings as applied in most circuits |
| 21-5593 | Dennis Akaazua v. Walker Novack Legal Group, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure district-court equitable-relief equitable-tolling filing-deadline postal-delivery postal-service pro-se timeliness weather-conditions winter-conditions | Whether the U.S. District Court could equitably rule that the Petitioner's reply brief was untimely despite postal delivery suspension due to extreme … |
| 21-329 | Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment | Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding sanctions against pro se, denial of damages and right to a jury trial, when admitting not supported by the reco… |
| 21-5355 | Jung Won Yun v. Chung Cha Kim, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights covid-19 due-process fee-waiver language-barriers legal-documents litigation pro-se standing supreme-court translation | Whether the COVID-19 pandemic and economic conditions justify an exception to the normal rules for filing a petition for writ of certiorari |
| 21-5320 | Trenton John Tompkins v. Lauren Leigh Hackett | Third Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure prison-conditions pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to submit his appellant's brief and appendix due to a prison lockdown and lack of access to legal materials cons… |
| 21-5189 | Gary Hatter v. Gloria Williams, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process housing-authority hud jury-trial pro-se procedural-due-process seventh-amendment summary-judgment | 7th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial |
| 21-5187 | Patricia A. McColm v. Trinity County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Dismissed | IFP | access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access disability-accommodation disability-accommodations dismissal-with-prejudice due-process pre-filing-order pro-se | Whether pro-se-plaintiffs-with-disabilities-should-receive-accommodations-or-counsel |
| 21-85 | Neil G. Leeds v. Hanmi Bank | California | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights court-reporter due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing unruh-act | Whether the lower court including the appeal court should have followed The California Supreme Court Ruling under Jameson v. Desta to provide a free c… |
| 21-5159 | Alfred P. Centofanti, III v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-07-21 | Denied | IFP | americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus medical-disability pro-se stay-proceedings | Whether the denial of a pro se inmate with stage IV cancer's requests to extend filing deadlines, stay the proceedings, refer the appeal to a pro bono… |
| 21-5126 | Kevin Tyrell Beach v. Florida | Florida | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process irreparable-harm mistrial pro-se pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sanctions | Does it constitute 'bad faith conduct' or 'abuse of discretion' when a judge denies a defendant's numerous pre-trial requests for 'stand-by' counsel |
| 21-5127 | Noel Aldana v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se procedural-bar strickland-standard strickland-v-washington untimeliness | Does a meritorious claim that a pro se Petitioner raises which clearly present and meet the cause and prejudice standard addressed in the Strickland v… |
| 21-18 | Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing | Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued |
| 21-5024 | Gary E. McKinley v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. | Nevada | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence exhibits pleadings prisoner-rights pro-se standing state-court-system | Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for relief |
| 20-8391 | Oliver Price v. Keith J. Foley, Warden | Ohio | 2021-06-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction | Whether a pro se petitioner should be afforded the same liberal construction as a previous petitioner |
| 20-1719 | Allen Bernard Shay v. Alfred H. Siegel | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 14th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-due-process constitutional-equal-protection due-process economic-fluctuations equal-rights judicial-fraud pro-se pro-se-rights trustee-discretion | Does a pro se bankruptcy petitioner have the same 14th-amendment-due-process-protection and equal-rights-protection as creditors during economic fluct… |
| 20-1704 | RonRico Simmons, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | aedpa evidentiary-hearing government-impediment habeas-corpus limitations-period pro-se timeliness | Whether a court can summarily dismiss a pro se habeas petition as untimely for failure to adequately allege a causal connection |
| 20-8153 | Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court civil-procedure docketing excusable-neglect filing-deadline jurisdictional-issue notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-filer | Did the Appellate Court erroneously calculate the filing deadline for the Notice of Appeal? |
| 20-8133 | In Re Silas Wilson, Jr. | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process inadequate-hearing judicial-discretion mandamus misreading-of-motion pro-se rule-60 rule-60(b)(4) standard-of-review | Whether this Court has jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus directed to the Court of appeals | |
| 20-8050 | Jennifer Van Bergen, aka Gwendolyn Stone v. Scott Koppel | Florida | 2021-05-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection indigent medical-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigant separation-of-powers | Does the Florida Medical Malpractice Act's presuit medical expert affidavit requirement violate the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and the 5th… |
| 20-8041 | Douglas E. Kampfer v. Richard Argotsinger, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process oath-of-office pro-se pro-se-plaintiff property-interest | Is an oath of office a valid contract under the laws and constitution? |
| 20-7962 | Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds | Should courts procedurally time-bar a pro-se-inmate's habeas-corpus petition when a prison-official with a serious-health-illness is responsible for t… |
| 20-7938 | Cherie Phillips v. Charo Rowley | Idaho | 2021-05-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardianship-rights hospice-mandate judicial-bias judicial-misconduct pro-se standing state-action | Whether the Idaho Courts denied the fairness and justice of Due Process |
| 20-7736 | John H. Schoppe v. Utah, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-claim due-process injunctive-relief pro-se standing | Whether the petitioner has standing to bring claims against the defendants for alleged abuse, negligence, incompetence, conspiracy, malfeasance, and d… |
| 20-7657 | David Erike MacLloyd v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-standard standing | Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue because the Sixth Circuit failed to apply the Pro-Se-Litigant-Standard to a Pro-Se-Defendant's-Pleadings |
| 20-7660 | In Re Justin Paul Sulzner | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent injunctive-relief mentally-disabled pro-se standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the 8th Cir. Appellate Court should have used 'special care' when dealing with a mentally disabled, indigent, pro se Plaintiff under 28 U.S.C.… | |
| 20-7411 | Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-proceedings judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60b standing | Should the lower courts have been so stringent in limiting their review to only one exception of Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) in deciding whether to grant re… |
| 20-1227 | David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation | Whether the 9th Circuit Court had full jurisdiction of the appeal, having no notice of appeal filed by petitioner in the District Court until 1 year a… | |
| 20-7303 | John Joseph Barrera v. Jessica Newsome, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner judicial-review pleading-standard prisoner-rights pro-se standing | Whether the courts below held the pro se prisoner plaintiff to a higher pleading standard |
| 20-7274 | Michael Diabolis Griffis, Sr. v. Les Parish, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard federal-courts pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with clearly established law in Fareita v. California and conflicts with the decisions o… |
| 20-7237 | Clyde E. Bradley v. Teri Kennedy, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus petition pro-se rebuttal statutory-interpretation | Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing the pro se petition for habeas corpus relief without permitting the petitioner a fair opportunity … |
| 20-7170 | In Re Abhijit Prasad | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus pro-se standing supervised-release | Question not identified | |
| 20-7184 | Mitchell Wagner v. Archie D. Scarborough, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis legal-complexity legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing | Whether the failure of an appellate court to recognize an already approved and accepted in forma pauperis status violates the petitioner's constitutio… |
| 20-7123 | Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | IFP | conviction-finality district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus haynes-v-kerner jurisdiction limitations-period pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | When was conviction final? |
| 20-7136 | James Robert Stanford v. Daniel Paramo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell miller-v-cockrell pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default | Does the requisite 'substantial showing' require pro-se-litigants to re-submit supporting-documents |
| 20-7148 | Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings | Is it proper for the U.S. District Court to dismiss the motions for joinder filed by the defendants? |
| 20-7094 | Kenneth Ray Sheffey v. Iowa | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illiterate indigent-status legal-representation prisoner-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se | Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both legal a… |
| 20-1059 | Roy H. Murry v. Washington | Washington | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | anders-brief court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-briefing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Was Mr. Murry denied his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process? |
| 20-7022 | Amado Reyes Trujillo v. Mona D. Houston, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review language-barriers petition-for-relief pro-se standing | Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioner's writ of habeas corpus due to lack of procedures, without considering that petitioner is not a… |
| 20-976 | David H. Penny v. Lincoln's Challenge Academy | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-civil-rules judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment | What is the proper treatment of Pro Se litigants nationwide who make a technical error or other mistake for lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of… |
| 20-6847 | Christopher Bryan Torres v. Brad Livingston, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 13th-amendment civil-rights involuntary-servitude legal-rights prison-labor pro-se pro-se-complaint section-1983 thirteenth-amendment | Do 13th Amendment slaves, or those under involuntary servitude, have legal rights when filing pro se § 1983 complaints for serious injuries received f… |
| 20-6829 | Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se | Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence? |
| 20-6687 | William James Jonas, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou… |
| 20-847 | Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority | Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs |
| 20-773 | Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process | Whether a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be granted despite the movants' failure to serve the motion prior to filing |
| 20-6510 | Lawrence W. Ford v. Anita L. Budde | Nevada | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process judicial-discretion judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error pro-se | Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in mischaracterizing the trial court record and relying on erroneous facts |
| 20-6457 | Phillip Watkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hybrid-representation pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing supplemental-brief | Whether the appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion to dismiss court-appointed counsel and allow him to submit pro se supplemental bri… |
| 20-619 | R. S., et al., Individually and on Behalf of Their Son, A. S. v. Board of Education Shenendehowa Central School District, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure autism civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limitations | Whether an appellate court may sua sponte dismiss an appeal |
| 20-6239 | Abdul Mohammed v. Prairie State Legal Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | IFP | amendment civil-procedure complaint-amendment dismissal district-court notice pro-se rule-8 | Whether a District Court can dismiss a Pro Se Plaintiff's complaint under Rule 8 without giving an opportunity to amend the complaint at least once af… |
| 20-6176 | Brandon J. Weathers v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standard-of-justice standard-of-review | Did the Court of Appeals correctly apply the 'interests of justice' standard to the Petitioner's substitution of counsel claim where the trial court m… |
| 20-487 | Ho Wong Jeong v. Angel Cabrera, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion precedent pro-se rule-60 standing supreme-court-precedent | Did the district court act contrary to SCOTUS precedents in denying appellant's pro se Rule 60(b)(3) motion on untimeliness without oral argument? |
| 20-6002 | Curtis Lee Dale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts adverse-decision appeals case-seizure criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-law-enforcement pro-se procedural-due-process warrant-search | Does Petitioner have a procedural due process right to access the Court and file an initial brief in the appeals court related to the district court's… |
| 20-5989 | Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. | Ohio | 2020-10-09 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights court-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation pro-se sanctions | Whether it was proper to impose sanctions and attorney's fees on a pro se petitioner, when the petitioner did not have an opportunity to respond at th… |
| 20-5963 | Daniel Edward Murray v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | IFP | aedpa aedpa-time-calculation hipaa hipaa-restrictions ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel medical-records medical-records-disclosure plea-agreement plea-agreements pro-se pro-se-litigation | If there is a set of plea agreements taken at the same time and the court of appeals reverses a part of the appealed agreement, does this start the AE… |
| 20-5826 | Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte | Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the principle of party presentation by raising and deciding an issue sua sponte in petitioner's habeas appeal |
| 20-5807 | Geoffrey Graham v. Grady Perry, Warden, et al. | Georgia | 2020-09-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process indigent-prisoner judicial-discretion pro-se regulations standing state-court-procedure state-courts statutory-interpretation | Is a pro se indigent prisoner held to a higher standard than state courts? |
| 20-5764 | Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Granted | Relisted (2)IFP | counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion | Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding no basis for interlocutory appeal and refusing to allow the petitioner to show district court prejudice |
| 20-258 | Alvin E. Medina v. Federal Aviation Administration | Federal Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appeal-rights arbitration arbitration-decision civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant | whether-the-failure-to-provide-notice-of-appeal-rights-with-arbitrator's-decision-and-certificate-of-service-to-pro-se-litigants-warranted-a-favorable… |
| 20-5495 | Ruben Sanchez v. United States, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights complaint-amendment due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction immunity marginalized-defendants pro-se standing state-actor-immunity | Does a pro se plaintiff have the right to appointment of counsel to amend a complaint challenging state-actor-immunity? |
| 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 | Whether the court erroneously denied the motion for court-appointed counsel and erroneously held that the complaint failed to set forth a short and pl… |
| 20-5263 | Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-08-05 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing | Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence despite the defendant's refusal to i… |
| 20-5228 | United States, ex rel. Friedrich Lu v. Ramandeep Samra, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-representation circuit-court civil-procedure false-claims-act jurisdiction legal-representation pro-se qui-tam standing | Whether a relator may proceed pro se under the False Claims Act |
| 20-36 | Michael J. McGowan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-17 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness pro-se | Whether Petitioner demonstrated the requisite 'diligence' and 'extraordinary circumstances' to warrant equitable tolling |
| 19-1467 | Robert S. Ortloff, aka Robert Stanley Ortloff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability docket-management due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-petition | Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it contravened long-established decisional law | |
| 19-8897 | David Lee Smith v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review | Whether a pro se petitioner is entitled to a liberal construction of their court papers or fair amendment, when the prosecutor presented no evidence t… |
| 19-8895 | Dario M. Rodriguez v. Alan Lawson, Justice, Supreme Court of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts indigent-appeal pro-se procedural-restrictions standing | Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the Younger abstention doctrine, and the cou… |
| 19-8829 | Anastasia Purnell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation pro-se rule-of-law standing | Should courts be held responsible for abuse of discretion when failing to follow the rule of law as written? |
| 19-8818 | Sharon Johnson v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2020-06-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-accommodation due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-rights standing | Whether in pro per parties are entitled to the same U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights as represented part… |
| 19-1395 | Raleigh Rogers v. Discover Bank | North Carolina | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure due-process fraud misconduct misrepresentation new-trial north-carolina-rules pro-se relief-from-judgment | Does 'pro se' mean 'no say' or are even pro se litigants eligible for relief from judgment and a new trial pursuant NC §14-1 Rule 60(b)(3) when courts… |
| 19-8630 | Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion ministerial-function pro-se standing writ-of-certiorari | Whether conflicting free speech: superior Ray v. Blair does not' address constitution question allowing to decide for themselves ; opposite: Bell v T… |
| 19-1281 | Dimitritza Toromanova v. Summit Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-60(b) frcp-60(d) independent-action judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60(d) | Did the doctrine of Claim Preclusion preclude a party from asserting the right to file a complaint as an independent action under FRCP 60(d) |
| 19-8405 | Irvin Reyes v. Kaiser Permanente | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process inadequate-representation judgment-on-merits pro-se pro-se-litigation res-judicata rule-12b6 standing | Whether a dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) is presumed to be with prejudice |
| 19-8328 | Adam Strege v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-remedy civil-procedure discovery due-process forced-medication ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se standing | Is it an abuse of discretion for the First Circuit Court to deny mandamus because the District Court could respond but never has? |
| 19-1237 | LeRoy K. Wheeler v. North Dakota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-21 | Denied | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access court-access due-process judicial-bias judicial-review legal-prejudice meritorious-claims prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner | Do poor pro-se prisoners have a constitutional right to access the courts and to justice that will compel courts to rule on the merits of valid consti… | |
| 19-8295 | Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se standing | Whether the district court's denial of pro se litigant's due process rights requires a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 19-8291 | Willis J. Yazzie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to advise a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the me… |
| 19-8236 | Iva Brooks v. Aaron Foster | Illinois | 2020-04-10 | Denied | IFP | child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se procedural-violations standing state-attorney | What are the issues being raised in the SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari? |
| 19-8225 | In Re Faramarz Mehdipour | 2020-04-08 | Denied | IFP | all-writs-act certiorari-timeline due-process equitable-powers exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief prison-lockdown pro-se pro-se-petition standing supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether the Court retains equitable powers to ensure faith in the Federal Courts of the United States, even when no other means of relief can be obtai… | |
| 19-1202 | Thomas Taffe, et al. v. First National Bank of Alaska | Alaska | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial legal-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment systemic-bias | Did a systemic bias against pro se litigants lead to the unconstitutional denial of Petitioners' right to a jury trial in this case? |
| 19-8094 | Caleb S. Motupalli v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 35-usc-112 america-invents-act enablement interdisciplinary-invention interdisciplinary-team patent-enablement patent-examination patent-specification pre-aia pro-se single-skilled-person waiver | Does the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) permit the retroactive application of a scintilla of inadequacy in Pre-AIA to overturn precedent by ins… |
| 19-8023 | Tom Eli Orr v. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | 42-U.S.C.-section 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process sixth-circuit standing | Has Mr. Orr been afforded procedural due process under the Constitution? |
| 19-7975 | Glenn Myer v. All Dulles Area Muslim Society | Virginia | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights civil-rights,pro-se,due-process,court-rules,subpoe court-rules due-process judicial-procedure legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant standing subpoena | Does Virginia have the right to discriminate against a Pro Se litigant and violate their Civil Rights, US Supreme Court Rulings, Court rules |
| 19-7939 | Robert James Pope, Jr. v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal appellate-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel forfeiture ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice pro-se pro-se-appeal right-to-appeal sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Where trial counsel's ineffectiveness in failing to initiate an appeal results in a defendant's loss of appellate rights, can the constitutional right… |
| 19-7941 | Jane Doe v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process pro-se pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodation standing | Whether the Second Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing the appeal without ruling on the reasonable accommodation reques… |
| 19-7895 | David Dwayne Brown v. Florida | Florida | 2020-03-06 | Denied | IFP | access-to-court-rights appellate-court-orders civil-procedure due-process pro-se-petitions state-appellate-courts access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-petitions state-courts | Whether the constitutional right of access to court is violated when a state appellate court does not issue a show cause order before holding pro se p… |
| 19-7872 | Samuel A. Wilder v. William F. Krebs | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit informal-brief motion-to-extend pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-ripeness standing waiver-doctrine | Whether the court should have assisted this pro se litigant with time to respond to the Defendant's motion to extend time and Defendant's response to … |
| 19-7725 | William Desmond Conrad v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa alleyne assistance-of-counsel attorney-negligence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation descamps habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance precedent pro-se pro-se-rights sixth-amendment | Is 'the neglect or negligence committed by an Attorney a violation of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment's requirement of assistance of counsel ? |
| 19-7672 | Donte Deshawn Alston v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | access-to-courts due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule pro-se second-or-successive | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process |
| 19-7675 | Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing | Whether the US Court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealability |
| 19-7613 | Wanda E. Smith-Jeter v. ArtSpace Everett Lofts Condominium Association, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act prima-facie-case pro-se retaliation standing summary-judgment | Does Petitioner, pro se, WANDA E.Smith-Jeter present a prima facie case for retaliation under the Fair Housing Act against the Respondents, ARTSPACE E… |
| 19-7428 | Timothy O'Laughlin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process personal-liberty pro-se pro-se-litigation pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing standing-to-file | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4247(h) unconstitutionally deprives individuals of the right to litigate their personal liberty interests pro se |
| 19-7445 | Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Are all stale prisoners being unlawfully held, where the evidence used to convict them involved state department officials from one county searching a… |
| 19-7405 | Francienna B. Grant v. Marshall L. Williams | New Jersey | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights damages-denial due-process evidence ex-parte-evidence judicial-fairness legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigation standing | Whether a Pro Se litigant can prevail in a Legal malpractice case on liability after having suffered damages and be denied damages incurred |
| 19-7385 | Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-23 | Denied | IFP | anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel | When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con… |
| 19-7276 | Ketut Pujayasa v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness | Did the district court and appellate court err in concluding that the petitioner's Rule 4(a)(6) motion, which was sent on February 20, 2019, and recei… |
| 19-7281 | Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. | District of Columbia | 2020-01-15 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition | Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasoning o… |
| 19-7286 | Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a clai… |
| 19-7257 | Dillon Mvuri v. American Airlines, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-reasoning pro-se summary-judgement summary-judgment | Where the district court issues a summary judgement without giving reasons on the record contrary to Rule 56 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and t… |
| 19-7200 | Barry Wayne Adams v. Calhoun County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights common-law de-facto-government due-process judicial-review martial-rule peonage pro-se procedural-fairness service-of-process standing | Whether the lower courts properly addressed the petitioner's common law claims, viewed the claims in the light most favorable to the petitioner, and f… |
| 19-7214 | Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment | Whether the sitting panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's entry of summary judgment on petitioner's pro… |
| 19-7196 | Mark D. Zimmerman v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-07 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process incarceration judicial-discretion legal-resources pro-se standing state-courts supervisory-power | Whether the lower state court erred in sanctioning the petitioner's departure from the accepted judicial proceedings regarding the decision governing … |
| 19-7164 | Dominic Howard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 19-7166 | Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. | Ohio | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts age-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial pro-se standing | Were the petitioner's due process rights denied because she is a 47-year-old, female pro se litigant? |
| 19-834 | In Re Philippe Buhannic | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreign-litigant judicial-bias legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant state-courts | Whether the state courts have the right to refuse due process to a foreign pro-se-litigant | |
| 19-7135 | Hye-Young Park v. Charles Secolsky, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure campus-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation sexual-violence standing statute-of-limitations | Whether the Seventh Circuit's treatment of pro se litigants was correct |
| 19-7095 | David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation | Is pro-se petitioner entitled to court's liberal construction of his complaint? |
| 19-7101 | David Nowakowski v. E.E. Austin and Son, Inc., et al. | Pennsylvania | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-organizations criminal-procedure criminal-racketeering due-process inchoate-crimes legal-remedies legislative-interpretation organized-crime pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering standing statutory-construction | Where a plaintiff's position falls within the scope of an open Legislative statement, can the open ended nature of the statement be used to offset lon… |
| 19-7047 | In Re Antwoyn Spencer | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-se sentencing | Question not identified | |
| 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 | Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Texas… |
| 19-707 | Irma Rosas v. San Antonio Housing Authority, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling erickson-precedent magistrate-transfer mental-illness pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing tolling twombly-standard | Whether the lower court erred in applying Twombly to pro-se plaintiff's complaint when Erickson controlled | |
| 19-6815 | Blake Wingate v. New York | New York | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-application pro-se pro-se-representation | Where the right to proceed pro se is constitutionally even on appeal or a post conviction application, is it a violation of due process and or the equ… |
| 19-6536 | Patt McGuire v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights pro-se | Should a Petitioner/Pro Se be granted the fundamental right to counsel which is essential to fairness in a civil case? |
| 19-6429 | William Jovian Davis v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (7)IFP | aedpa certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review pro-se strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal? |
| 19-6437 | Lee E. Peyton v. California | California | 2019-10-31 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a trial court to deny a defendant's request to proceed pro se based on the judge's accusations of t… |
| 19-6452 | David P. Moran v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court | Should a writ of mandamus be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity violated an earlier subpoena for records? |
| 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 for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases |
| 19-6439 | Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions deception due-process fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure pro-se religious-beliefs standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims alleging fraud, deception, and due process violations despite Petitioner's status as … |
| 19-6406 | Clifford L. Rush v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-10-28 | Denied | IFP | conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion nebraska-supreme-court pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment withdrawal-of-counsel | Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court's denial of the petitioner's right to proceed pro se violated the Sixth Amendment |
| 19-543 | Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Crown Pointe Care Center, et al. | Ohio | 2019-10-25 | Denied | beneficiary beneficiary-status civil-procedure creditors estate estate-representation executor executor-rights legal-standing pro-se pro-se-representation probate-law standing | May the executor and sole beneficiary of an estate without creditors represent the estate pro se? | |
| 19-6247 | In Re Donald Lee McDonald | 2019-10-11 | Denied | IFP | criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution | |
| 19-6245 | Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation | Whether incarcerated pro se litigants' custody, parental rights, property, and financial matters are at issue in a bona fide civil action seeking acce… |
| 19-6165 | Ricky G. Davis v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-10-04 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process pro-se pro-se-representation probation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standing | Can Virginia constitutionally hale a person into its criminal courts and there force a lawyer upon him, even when he insist that he wants to conduct h… |
| 19-6012 | Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power | Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducated P… |
| 19-332 | Steven E. Davis, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-1915 civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forma-pauperis judicial-access legal-costs pro-se pro-se-litigants standing | Do pro se litigants have any 'CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS' |
| 19-5892 | Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. | Illinois | 2019-09-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings | Whether the trial court's actions amounted to a violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 19-5851 | Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | IFP | 2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default | Is there a federal procedural rule that permits a court to refuse to acknowledge and determine a presentation of cause & prejudice in a habeas petitio… |
| 19-5717 | Ronnie C. Brown v. Jeff Macomber, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-capacity mental-illness pro-se pro-se-petition | Is equitable tolling available for a late-filed pro se habeas petition due to mental illness? |
| 19-5678 | John T. Beyers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-review sentencing-procedure standing supervised-release | Whether the 28 USC § 2253 process unconstitutionally dilutes the writ of habeas corpus by removing even the modest review available under common law |
| 19-5661 | David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing | Whether there exist a conflict between the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in this case and the unanimous decisio… |
| 19-5590 | Levar Lee Anthony Spence v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-document petition pro-se standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Was your petitioner, being without any assistance of an attorney denied due process and equal protection of the law when the federal courts refused de… |
| 19-5509 | Charles Randall Harrison v. Raul Maldonado | District of Columbia | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review pro-se pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-denial | Did the District Court violate Harrison's Due Process by sua Sponte denying his Pro-Se Complaint without serving the defendants or giving judicial rev… |
| 19-5483 | Grant Thomas McAdams v. Washington | Washington | 2019-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure collateral-review constitutional-protection due-process federal-constitution insufficient-evidence intent-to-commit-theft post-conviction-relief pro-se pro-se-petition standing state-court-procedure washington-state | Does the Due Process protection of the federal Constitution apply to Washington State's collateral review procedures? |
| 19-5492 | Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations | Is it an extraordinary circumstance if counsel filed a motion three months after the AEDPA's limitations period expired? |
| 19-5452 | Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico | First Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-weighing fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing | Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment without weighing the evidence, disregarding interrogatories and evidence, and committing… |
| 19-5467 | Tyrone Murray v. Wanda Collins, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process factual-allegations grievances motion-to-dismiss prison prisoner-rights pro-se retaliation standing | Whether a Pro Se inmate Complaint in a Conspiracy to Commit Murder lawsuit must Contain Specific facts and/or is Subject to a Heightened Pleading Stan… |
| 19-5374 | Benson Coriolant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules | Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit… |
| 19-5364 | In Re Carl A. Courtright, III | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions | Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in ordering a $500 sanction against a pro se indigent petitioner? | |
| 19-5329 | James Lester Williams, Jr. v. Jamai F. Samuels | Florida | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law-dispute petition-for-redress pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition | Whether Florida's Appellate Court(s) denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Petition's for Appeal, without any judicial reasoning or analysis to… |
| 19-5267 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions | Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive effect to a prior panel'… |
| 19-5206 | Christine Sawicky v. AMC Networks Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 14th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights copyright-law due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant | How can a plaintiff win a copyright lawsuit when circuit splits exist throughout the 13 appellate courts? Additionally, how can a circuit split exist … |
| 19-5205 | Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Dismissed | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment | Should a pro se prisoner be permitted to admit medical information from a reputable website as 'verifying medical evidence' to overcome a motion for s… |
| 19-5210 | Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. | Georgia | 2019-07-17 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation | Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants? |
| 19-50 | John DeRaffele v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari | Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa… |
| 19-5066 | Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation | Whether the dismissal of the first indictment under 18 USC 3161(b) and the subsequent untimely indictment without an alignment violates due process an… |
| 19-25 | Irma Rosas v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | accepted-and-usual-course certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process erickson-v-pardus judicial-proceedings legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing supreme-court-review | Whether the lower court, in conflict with this Court's holding in Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89 (2007), so far departed from the accepted and usual … |
| 19-5040 | Jennifer Lu v. Stanford University | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-amendment complaint-amendment dismissal district-court-procedure due-process judicial-guidance leave-to-amend legal-notice pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness | Whether when granting a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must identify the complaint deficiencies so that the pro se lit… |
| 18-9764 | Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel | Should a defendant be found to have waived his right to counsel and proceed pro se even if he declines to answer the district court's questions? |
| 18A1348 | Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time institutional-limitations legal-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari due to institutional limitations and need for … | |
| 18A1351 | Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC | Massachusetts | 2019-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-challenge extension-of-time pro-se statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant experiencing homelessness and medical challenges is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiora… | |
| 18A1335 | Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | incarcerated-litigant legal-resources pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se incarcerated litigant's limited access to legal resources and prison administrative constraints constitute sufficient grounds for an … | |
| 18A1340 | Manohar Jain, as Trustee, and its Successors or Successor Trustees Under the Manohar Jain Trust Dated July 1, 2000, et ux. v. Bay Hill Property Owners Association, Inc. | Florida | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause are violated when state courts fail to prov… | |
| 18A1341 | Antwoine Marquise Bealer v. Kern Valley State Prison | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | certiorari litigation petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a pro se petition for writ of certiorari given multiple concurrent legal proceedings | |
| 18A1331 | Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | administrative-action civil-rights clerk-error constitutional-claim pro-se procedural-challenge | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a circuit court clerk's administrative actions constitute a cognizable constitutional claim under… | |
| 18A1311 | Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Presumed Complete | appellate-fees court-procedure dismissal in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's failure to timely pay appellate filing fees constitutes grounds for dismissal of an appeal without further procedural safe… | |
| 18A1312 | Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-default writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional right to meaningful access to courts is violated when procedural requirements effectively obstruct his abil… | |
| 18A1309 | Marcel Malachowski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability federal-civil-procedure legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se section-2255 | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources at a private correctional facility constitutes a due process violation warranting an ext… | |
| 18A1310 | Marcel Malachowski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability federal-civil-procedure pro-se section-2255 supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when facing limited legal research resources in a … | |
| 18A1290 | Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB | New Jersey | 2019-06-11 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights extension-of-time foreclosure judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-rules | Whether a pro se litigant's medical conditions and procedural challenges warrant judicial leniency in reviewing a state court foreclosure judgment | |
| 18A1294 | Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus legal-access pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources and law library constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for a… | |
| 18A1295 | Jesse Mendivil v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Presumed Complete | federal-procedure legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari | |
| 18A1282 | Ronny Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts extension-of-time prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted due to institutional lockdown and limited a… | |
| 18A1283 | Kurtis Keith Lowe v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Presumed Complete | administrative-remedy constitutional-rights federal-corrections law-library legal-access pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional rights are violated by systematic denial of law library access and interference with legal preparation time… | |
| 18A1252 | Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille | New Hampshire | 2019-06-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari deadline extension-of-time petition pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted when filed near the deadline | |
| 18-9475 | Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations | Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual-innocence claim to establish cause to … |
| 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 a Title VII discrimination case drafted by a pro se US citizen has been improperly dismissed for length despite the viability of the claims? |
| 18-9384 | In Re Freya Pearson | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief | Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab… | |
| 18-9362 | Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal |
| 18A1204 | Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. | Florida | 2019-05-21 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits discriminatory treatment of pro se litigants based on age and ethnic origin in st… | |
| 18-9308 | Clarence Scranage, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner waived his Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights |
| 18-9314 | Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court | Was the District Court Judge's liberal construction of the pro se pleadings a denial of access to the courts? |
| 18-9256 | Zeeshan Khalid Syed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-affidavit court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se reasonableness-of-counsel standing waiver waiver-doctrine writ-of-certiorari | When a pro-se files for a COA and discusses his claim extensively in his argument, can the Court construe the issue as being waived? |
| 18-9247 | Hitoshi Ombe v. Susana Martinez, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | autism-disability civil-rights cognitive-ability competency competency-ability disability due-process emotional-damages executive-function instrumental-aggression knowledge-of-disability legal-competency pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing | Does the depressed autism minority have adequate competency or ability to litigate on his own (pro se) without any help or support? |
| 18-9226 | Anne A. Sears v. Lucas D. Bottorff, et al. | Tennessee | 2019-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-checks contract-clause due-process elderly-protection judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-police-power | What is the minimum level of judicial checks and balances constitutionally required of the judiciary and each judge when reviewing litigation involvin… |
| 18-9145 | John Patrick Fletcher v. Inmate Bank, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process prisoner-complaint prisoner-rights pro-se rule-8 standard-of-review standing supervisory-power | Whether the lower courts' failure/refusal to follow this Court's standard of review for pro se prisoner complaints under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) as he… |
| 18-9148 | Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. James T. Blomo | Arizona | 2019-05-06 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment | Whether the Honorable Margaret Mahoney should have issued a court order for the pro se litigant to reply to the defendant's motion to dismiss, as a mi… |
| 18-1390 | Rochell Talley v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process foreclosure notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limits | Whether the appeal was wrongfully dismissed after the pro se litigant took measurable acts to protect the merits of his appeal after it was erroneousl… |
| 18-9121 | Jerry L. Gater v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california jury-trial-guarantee nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing-factors voir-dire | Does a defendant have a right to participate in voir dire when proceeding pro se? |
| 18-9023 | Keith Clayton Brooks Jr. v. David Gabriel, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-collateral-order-doctrine collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-violations due-process enlargement-of-time federal-relief habeas-corpus magistrate-judge prison-litigation prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner standing | Whether the collateral order doctrine can be invoked when a party is deprived of an opportunity to preserve issues for appellate review |
| 18-1324 | Moses Watts, Sr., et ux. v. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. | Arkansas | 2019-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process eminent-domain equal-protection ex-parte ex-parte-order judicial-procedure pro-se property-rights severance-damages takings | Whether petitioners were denied due process of law by an ex parte order enabling an electric utility to seize their property without notice and a prel… |
| 18-8837 | Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-standing due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct notice pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte-dismissal | Whether a trial court should render a sua sponte decision to dismiss an informa pauperis pro se litigant first pleaded affidavit to commenced civil ac… |
| 18-8860 | David Clum, Jr. v. Gene Beasley, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,habeas-corpus,pro-se,a equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-litigation sixth-amendment supervisory-powers | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifth Amendment-Due Process Rights of the Petitioner |
| 18-8772 | Ellery Bennett v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-law-library pro-se pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations | Whether the pro se petitioner's lack of knowledge about the habeas corpus statute of limitations due to the prison law library clerk's misleading stat… |
| 18-8750 | Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal | Must a judge recuse himself after improper ex parte communication? |
| 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 writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of appeal… |
| 18A1004 | Marcus Davis v. Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review district-court foreclosure judicial-procedure pro-se waiver | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to challenge the specific legal basis for a district court's dismissal of a foreclosure complaint constitutes a pr… | |
| 18-8658 | Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights complaint discretionary-rulings dismissal due-process failure-to-state-a-claim pro-se standing | Whether the court below committed a reversible error by dismissing the pro se litigant's complaint |
| 18A1000 | Parviz Karim-Panahi v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-04-01 | Presumed Complete | district-court federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure pro-se removal writ-of-certiorari | Whether a federal district court improperly remanded a case to state court after the plaintiff had validly removed the case to federal jurisdiction | |
| 18-8608 | William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. | California | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes | Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18-1232 | Al Zeiny v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress fbi-investigation federal-tort-claims-act free-speech government-misconduct intelligence-agency intelligence-agency-misconduct mental-health pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether Zeiny's rights would prevail over the CIA's power |
| 18-8533 | Lance Williams v. California | California | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficiency-of-evidence intent invalid-illegal-strike perjury police-report prejudicial-1101(b)-evidence pro-se prosecutor-coercion prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-act witness-credibility witness-description | Whether the state courts erred in denying appeal on prejudicial 1101(B) evidence on uncharged act used to prove intent where the police report differs… |
| 18-8465 | Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor | Are Bankruptcy Judges dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause? |
| 18-8354 | Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing | Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad… |
| 18-8357 | Richard A. Wilford v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner governmental-custodian habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se pro-se-petition standing unlawful-detention | Whether the dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of a federal prisoner's pro se petition for the writ of habeas corpus against the governmental custodia… |
| 18-8271 | Tony Hernandez v. Darlene S. Sims, et al. | Wisconsin | 2019-03-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-clerk due-process mailing-rule motion-for-stay petition-rejection pro-se pro-se-guideline standing workman's-compensation | Did a Wisconsin Supreme Court clerk ignore the plus 3-day mailing self-represented rule given to pro-se mailing filer Petitioner Tony Hernandez when h… |
| 18-8284 | Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. | Utah | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment appeal-restrictions appeals constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction jurisdictional-bars pro-se standing | Does it violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment for pro se parties to have less time and more restrictions to file … |
| 18-8203 | Darryl Burghardt v. Renee Stein-Graham | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se service-of-process standing | Whether a petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights are violated if their civil action is dismissed due to the U.S. Marshal's … |
| 18-8163 | Pierre Andre Basson v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure due-process federal-rules motion-to-dismiss notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-plaintiff summary-judgment | When considering a Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon which Relief May be Granted Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(… |
| 18-8096 | Antonio R. Hall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure district-court houston-v-lack mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se timeliness timely-filing | Does the presumption of timeliness under Houston v. Lack apply when the petitioner proves timely mailing but the district court did not receive the no… |
| 18-1087 | Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se | Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could find… | |
| 18-7998 | Bobby Charles Byrd v. W. W. Lindsey, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | IFP | ada-accommodation appointment-of-counsel civil-rights disability-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant rehabilitation-act | Does the district court have an obligation to appoint counsel for an ADA-eligible pro se pauper litigant prevented from conducting their own trial due… |
| 18-8000 | Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals precedent in Dodds v. United States and Atkins v. United States, denying equitable tolling to a pro-se i… |
| 18-7853 | John Patrick Fletcher v. Celia Schwartz, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-1915 42-U.S.C-1983 7th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process prisoner-complaint pro-se section-1915 section-1983 section-242 seventh-amendment standing takings | Whether the Seventh Amendment allows an action to be dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 — without a finding of factual error — six months after the issu… |
| 18-7850 | Larry Howard v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review mental-disability pro-se standing | Whether the exhaustion of legal assistance measures, especially in the case of a mentally disabled defendant, can conclusively overcome the respondent… |
| 18-7749 | Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy | Florida | 2019-02-05 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure | Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay denied Petitioner access for certiorari review |
| 18-7752 | Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-1915 appointment-of-counsel circuit-panel-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-complexity pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation recusal standing | Whether the replacement Circuit Panel repeatedly refused to address/clarify Jurisdiction issues, ultimately denying Petitioner's efforts to resolve a … |
| 18-1004 | James Seaman v. Westfield Medical Center, L.P., et al. | Pennsylvania | 2019-02-01 | Denied | civil-procedure dismissal due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure notice notice-requirement pro-se pro-se-litigant public-policy rules-of-procedure service-of-pleading | WHETHER THE FAILURE TO SERVE A PLEADING UPON PRO-SE LITIGANTS WARRANTED A FAVORABLE RULING UNDER FED.R.CIV.P 60 AND REMOVAL OF A DISMISSAL OF AN ACTIO… | |
| 18-7687 | Dre'Shawn Markuise Lee v. William Muniz, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus institutional-confinement pro-se state-court-appeals statute-of-limitations timeliness | When does the federal habeas petition clock begin to run for an inmate confined in an institution after the state supreme court has denied their state… |
| 18-996 | Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. | Mississippi | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response Waived | chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Did the Mississippi Supreme Court refuse to apply the mandatory language in the use of the word of shall in Mississippi Code of Ann § 11-1-17 in viola… |
| 18-7671 | Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy, Clerk | Florida | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | alimony child-custody child-support civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-violence due-process family-law injunction pro-se standing | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a state court to provide a hearing before issuing a domestic violence injunction agains… |
| 18-7441 | James L. Wheeler v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process haines-standard haines-v-kerner judicial-review liberal-construction pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-fairness standing | Was the lower Court's Action in failing to allow Liberal Construction of Petitioner's claims in conflict with this Court's holding in Haines v. Kerner… |
| 18-7384 | Michael Deuschel v. USC Faculty Dental Practice, et al. | California | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ada-accommodation ada-requests-for-accommodation court-reporter disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-access multiple-disabilities pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-petitioner record-on-appeal | Whether the trial court denials of ADA requests for accommodation from in forma pauperis pro se Petitioner with multiple disabilities, receiving multi… |
| 18-7243 | Javier Rojas-Cisneros v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus notice-and-warning pro-se standing | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to undertake the notice-and-warning requirement of a pro se filing as a 2255 motion as … |
| 18-7191 | Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa… |
| 18-7160 | Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff | New York | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals divorce-judgment due-process forgery fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing pro-se standing | Whether the New York State Court of Appeals can dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud/forgery in the lower court proceedin… |
| 18-782 | William C. Bond v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether a district court must provide a reason for denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint | |
| 18-771 | Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions | Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff |
| 18-6949 | Eric A. Klein v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | critical-stages federal-felony johnson-v-zerbst limited-appearance plea-negotiations pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel | Whether the district court should address the facts showing a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel post-arraignment and for critical stag… |
| 18-6965 | Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC | First Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing | Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution? |
| 18-6943 | Gregory Dean Banister v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4)IFP | aedpa appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se rule-59(e) successive-petition | Whether Gonzalez v. Crosby extends to Rule 59(e) motions |
| 18-6847 | Sergio Antonio Haro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing government-agent-reports impeachment impeachment-of-credibility magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-plea-negotiations plea-negotiations prejudice pro-se pro-se-habeas sixth-amendment | Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-6838 | Alvin Leon Roundtree v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se section-2255 sixth-amendment standing | Whether the district court's failure to construe Mr. Roundtree's pro se motion for specific performance as a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §2255 co… |
| 18-6817 | Michael Albert Focia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process judge-vs-jury judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions jury-trial obstruction-of-justice pro-se sentence-enhancement sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment | Whether the court's instructions to the jury violated the Separation of Powers doctrine |
| 18-6786 | Curtis J. Hill v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | IFP | cause-of-death confrontation-clause due-process evidence expert-reports expert-testimony habeas-corpus medical-evidence pro-se pro-se-filing unreasonable-determination unreasonable-factual-findings | Whether the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determined the facts critical to a Confrontation Clause analysis of the introduction of a non-test… |
| 18-6730 | William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. | California | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure | Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 18-6717 | Lei Yin v. Thermo Fisher Scientific | First Circuit | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court-rules federal-courts judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-rights standing summons summons-issuance | Whether a pro se litigant shall share the same rights as those represented by lawyers that are protected by the United States Constitution |
| 18-633 | Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial | Should a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and c… |
| 18-6718 | Timothy Edwards v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-abandonment due-process excusable-neglect pro-se pro-se-defendant rule-4(b) rule-4b sixth-amendment | Whether the Appellate Court violated Mr. Edwards' Sixth Amendment due-process rights and Supreme Court precedent by strictly applying Rule 4(b) where … |
| 18-6658 | Ronald D. Veteto v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Alabama | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se standing | Whether a State may arbitrarily deny an indigent pro se prisoner effective and meaningful access to the courts? |
| 18-6645 | Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing | Do the district court's failure to state reasons for certifying lack of good faith, failure to dismiss as frivolous, and failure to allow amendment am… |
| 18-6504 | James D. Russian v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus haines-v-kerner liberal-construction liberal-construction-rule pro-se pro-se-filings pro-se-pleadings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-of-counsel | When a criminal defendant's pro se filings can be stated as a valid basis for substitution of counsel, must a federal court read those filings in such… |
| 18-6501 | Carl A. Robertson v. Interactive College of Technology, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cat's-paw-theory civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidentiary-rules mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext pro-se pro-se-litigant scheduling-order standing summary-judgment title-vii | Should a pro se litigant's First Proposed Heightened Amended Complaint be unfairly denied by courts based on not following Scheduling Order, undue del… |
| 18-6506 | Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts | Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires… |
| 18-6465 | Jose Ricardo Yanez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | IFP | aedpa-statute-of-limitations antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review ongoing-investigations pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations | Whether an alternate triggering date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996's 1-year statute of limitations, and equitable tolli… |
| 18-6383 | Robert J. Kulick v. Steven Rein | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | ada-accommodation attorney-client attorney-client-rights civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice legal-representation pro-per-status pro-se standing state-bar-bias | Why the CA State Bar denied an investigation against Steven Rein, Esq. for his blackmail against me, & why attorneys allowed to be relieved as an atto… |
| 18-6254 | Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias bias-in-courts big-business civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting-act fair-debt-collection-protection-agency federal-jurisdiction foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations | Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business? |
| 18-6259 | Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias big-business cfpb-enforcement civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting fair-debt-collection foreclosure judicial-bias mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations | Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business? |
| 18-6261 | Ilich Vargas, aka Ilich Ernesto Vargas Romero v. John McMahon | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standing | Whether a district court magistrate acts in excess of her discretion and outside the bounds of reason during the initial screening of a pro-se petitio… |
| 18-401 | Faye Rennell Hobson v. James Mattis, Secretary of Defense | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violation evidence fifth-amendment judicial-bias legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant united-states-constitution | What is the level of bias that must be demonstrated before it constitutes a violation of a pro se litigant's right to due process guaranteed by the Fi… |
| 18-6089 | Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas v. City of Columbia, South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-09-26 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expenses due-process equal-protection indigent-criminal-defendant indigent-defense pro-se pro-se-defense sovereign-immunity takings | Whether South Carolina's Defense of Indigents Act denies equal protection between criminal defendants who choose to proceed pro se and those with stat… |
| 18-6107 | Jacob Logan Stone v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-bar procedural-bars reentry summary-affirmance supervised-release | Does the 8th Circuit's practice of denying pro se litigants the opportunity to brief their appeal deny the basic requirements of Due Process, notice a… |
| 18-6102 | Anthony Mayes, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-proceedings due-process federal-statutes judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default trial-counsel | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to address on direct appeal trial counsel's procedural default of client's fundamental due process rights, for app… |
| 18-6043 | Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-09-19 | Denied | IFP | access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims | Should there be a precedent from the Court that protects pro-se-prisoners' right to contest misconstrued-of-pro-se-claims? |
| 18-334 | Amor Medina Del Rosario, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-protections dismissal due-process fed-r-civ-p-60 federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigants public-policy rules-of-procedure service service-of-pleading | Whether the failure to serve a pleading upon pro-se litigants warranted a favorable ruling under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 and removal of a dismissal of an acti… |
| 18-5946 | William A. Parrish, Jr. v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights court-of-appeals due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel grand-jury-selection indigent indigent-defendant indigent-litigant judicial-discretion perjured-testimony pro-se right-to-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial transcript trial-transcript | Did the State Court of Appeals have the authority to deny a pro se indigent litigant a copy of his trial transcript because he choose to represent him… |
| 18-5902 | Terrence Javon Allen, Sr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Can the courts violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by denying a criminal defendant his Sixth Amendment ri… |
| 18-5784 | Boniface W. Wabuyabo v. Correct Care Solutions | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights claim due-process legal-representation medical-attention pro-se standing | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the case due to an improper interpretation of the legal requirements for filing a claim, despite the petit… |
| 18-5790 | Uiki Teaupa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment | Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment entitle a pro se defendant the right to conduct discovery and have an evidentiary hearing on claims of government m… |
| 18-5765 | DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata | Has the refusal to properly adjudicate this case by the Eleventh Circuit presented prejudice and bias against the petitioner pro se? |
| 18-5749 | Anna Maria Agolli v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process government-immunity pro-se pro-se-plaintiff public-duty-doctrine statute-of-limitations | When equal but separate was overturned, there was little or no precedent to support this |
| 18-239 | Arick Justin Rinaldo v. Bryan Mahan, et al. | Colorado | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-supreme-court-rules court-access due-process equal-protection filing-system pro-se pro-se-litigant structural-error | Whether the deprivation of access to Colorado's ICCES filing system for pro se litigants caused reversible structural error and discriminated against … |
| 18-5599 | Anson Chi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining pro-se sentencing standing | Whether the defendant's guilty plea was involuntary due to an unconstitutional no-parole sentence |
| 18-5488 | Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review | Does the lower court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer… |
| 18-5448 | Ellen Elizabeth Packenham Stanley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-405(h) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se pro-se-appellant social-security-administration standing stare-decisis tort tort-claim venue venue-jurisdiction | Whether the U.S. Federal District Court of Minnesota is the appropriate venue and jurisdiction to present an appeal for a tort suit against the Social… |
| 18-5400 | In Re Wilma Pennington-Thurman | 2018-08-01 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incarceration pro-se standing unlawful-detention writ-of-right | Can I file a writ of habeas corpus when I am not physically incarcerated, but mentally incarcerated by those in authority? | |
| 18-5410 | Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in not permitting the petitioner to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis without further authorization |
| 18-5186 | Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing | Whether the lower courts deprived the pro se petitioner of due process and disregarded the limitations within the patent claims as well as the validit… |
| 18-5156 | D'Angelo Battis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ignoring the petitioner's pro se brief on appeal, affirming the petitioner's unconstitutional s… |
| 18-5161 | Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the state court's application of the Jackson standard of review in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence violated clearly established fed… |
| 18-31 | Joel Beck v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-claims mortgage motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-plaintiff procedural-dismissal rule-12(b)(6) standing state-law supreme-court-precedent | Whether a pro se plaintiff's pleading of plausible state law claims, including an allegation that would stop a pending foreclosure, is subject to dism… |
| 18-5133 | Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | IFP | amendment certification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forma-pauperis in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing | Whether the district court's failure to state its reasons for certifying that the petitioner could not proceed in forma pauperis in good faith, along … |
| 18A10 | Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se sixth-circuit time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research materials and challenges with counsel constitute sufficient grounds for an extension of… | |
| 18-5032 | Ramon Vasquez v. City of Reading, Pennsylvania, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2018-06-28 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process filing-deadlines habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-discretion nunc-pro-tunc prisoner-filing pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal | Whether the state Supreme Court's decision to deny Vasquez's petition for Allowance of Appeal 'Nunc Pro Tunc' conflicts with the Supreme Court's prece… |
| 18A1 | Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourth-circuit judicial-opinion pro-se procedural-rights writ-of-certiorari | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit violated due process by denying a pro se litigant copies of judicial opinions necessary to prepare a wri… | |
| 18A1218 | Marianne E. Burke, Mother of Abigail E. Caudle, Deceased v. Raven Electric, Inc., et al. | Alaska | Presumed Complete | certiorari docketing-fee extension-of-time pro-se rule-33.1 supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's motion for extension of time to file a certiorari petition meets the Supreme Court's procedural requirements for extraordi… | ||
| 23A733 | Michelle A. Ferrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Federal Circuit | Presumed Complete | administrative-justice disability-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether the Supreme Court's procedural handling of a pro se litigant's in forma pauperis application violates due process rights when the application … | ||
| 23A918 | Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. | North Carolina | Presumed Complete | court-procedure docketing-fee filing-format in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time or allow alternative filing formats for a pro se litigant facing financial hardship in pursu… | ||
| 23A947 | Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. | North Carolina | Presumed Complete | docketing-fee filing-format in-forma-pauperis pro-se procedural-extension supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural filing format and financial hardship constitute grounds for an extension or alternative filing method in Suprem… | ||
| 24A273 | Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company | Seventh Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari injunction insurance-dispute pro-se service-of-process supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an emergency injunction against a private insurance company to prevent potential financial harm while a certiorar… | ||
| 24A390 | Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. | Virginia | Presumed Complete | certiorari family-hardship in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's personal family circumstances and challenges with filing procedural documents constitute valid grounds for an extension of… | ||
| 24A422 | Sekou Keita v. Giant of Maryland LLC | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | court-rules filing-deadline forma-pauperis legal-printing pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's financial constraints and limited time constitute good cause for an extension of the Supreme Court's deadline for filing a… | ||
| 24A428 | Laura Marie Baldwin v. Joshua Devine, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis petition pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to submit a Supreme Court petition after in forma pauperis status is denied | ||
| 24A461 | Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig | Ohio | Presumed Complete | ancillary-relief certiorari petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant can seek ancillary relief from the Supreme Court to suspend an order denying certiorari pending a petition for rehearing | ||
| 24A531 | Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. | California | Presumed Complete | Relisted (2) | due-process judicial-review mandamus petition-denial pro-se state-court | Whether a state court's summary denial of a pro se litigant's petition for mandamus and prohibition without substantive review violates due process an… | |
| 24A547 | Frank Deville v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | District of Columbia | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure filing-fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se petitioner's failure to strictly comply with Supreme Court filing procedures and fee requirements constitutes grounds for dismissal o… | ||
| 24A729 | Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Presumed Complete | appellate-discretion judicial-procedure litigation-strategy mandate-recall ninth-circuit pro-se | Whether a federal appellate court improperly exercised its discretion in denying a pro se litigant's request to recall a mandate in a complex multi-pa… | ||
| 23A1038 | Kathy R. Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | court-procedure filing-extension informa-pauperis petition-format pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension and allow a pro se petition to be filed in SCR 33.2 format despite procedural requirements for Sup… | ||
| 23A1060 | Simon Chan v. Maura Tracy Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari-filing petition-extension pro-se procedural-relief rule-33.1 supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a procedural extension to file a Supreme Court petition meets the Court's standards for extraordinary relief | ||
| 23A1084 | Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. | Florida | Presumed Complete | court-accommodation document-preparation filing-fee incarceration pauper-petition pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner can seek reconsideration of a pauper's petition and request alternative document preparation accommodations due to incarcera… | ||
| 23A397 | Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | Presumed Complete | filing-requirements in-forma-pauperis lockdown-conditions prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether an indigent pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to comply with Supreme Court filing requirements when incarcerated under lockdown … | ||
| 23A422 | R. J. Kulick v. Ruth Stubba, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant with disabilities can challenge federal court procedural rules and jurisdictional determinations based on constitutional due… | ||
| 23A423 | R. J. Kulick v. Patrick Soon-Shiong, et al. | Ninth Circuit | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se | Whether the Due Process Clause protects a pro se litigant's right to file federal court pleadings despite disability and procedural challenges | ||
| 23A990 | Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security | Eleventh Circuit | Presumed Complete | booklet-production extension-of-time filing-requirement financial-hardship pro-se supreme-court-rule | Whether a pro se litigant's financial hardship warrants an extension of time to comply with Supreme Court Rule 33.1 regarding booklet production | ||
| 23A962 | Julian Ash v. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, et al. | Tenth Circuit | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time federal-question in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's in forma pauperis application denial and subsequent request for an extension of time to submit a writ of certiorari presen… | ||
| 25A491 | Frederick S. Koger v. Charles E. Kleidon, et al. | Seventh Circuit | Application | in-forma-pauperis judicial-review litigant-rights petition-denial pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether a pro se litigant's in forma pauperis petition can be denied without a detailed explanation of the grounds for denial | ||
| 25A240 | Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | Presumed Complete | due-process faretta-hearing ineffective-assistance pro-se self-representation sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the defendant's request to proceed pro se without a … | ||
| 25A627 | Linda Kay Twigg v. Allan Lee Twigg | Maryland | Application | certiorari docket-fee extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant seeking in forma pauperis status may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari after being denied such s… | ||
| 25A474 | Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior | Federal Circuit | Application | disability filing-requirements financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant with limited income and disability can obtain an extension of time and partial relief from Supreme Court filing requirements… | ||
| 25A448 | Benjamin Dykman v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System | Seventh Circuit | Application | administrative-review eeoc government-shutdown petition-deadline pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition based on a pending administrative agency review and governm… |