pro-se-complaint

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5243 Karen Y. Baez v. Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct mootness-doctrine pro-se-complaint 1) Whether a district court violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by dismissing a factually supported pro se complaint as frivolous un…
25A106 Nelson Mickens, Jr. v. William Danforth Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies civil-rights exhaustion-requirement prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-complaint section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires a prisoner to exhaust all available administrative remedies before filing a civil rights lawsuit und…
24-6685 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied IFP covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint Whether COVID-19 exposure in prison constitutes an Eighth Amendment violation and whether transfer between state institutions moots injunctive relief
23-76 Palani Karupaiyan v. Infosys BPM, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sua-sponte-dismissing-the-complaint-before-requiring-the-defendants-to-answer
23-77 Palani Karupaiyan v. Tata Consultancy Services, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review jurisdictional-error mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the district court erred in sua sponte dismissing the pro se civil-rights complaint before requiring the defendants to answer, and whether the…
22-688 Debbie Flowers, as Personal Representative of Toby Kristopher Payne v. James Sutterfield, Mental Health Manager, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-law due-process equitable-claims mental-health-treatment prison-conditions pro-se-complaint procedural-due-process standing suicide Does the courts' abdication of several procedural and substantive legal principles merit summary reversal?
21-6401 Sherry L. Dow v. Debbie Stabenow, United States Senator, et al. District of Columbia 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-rights due-process federal-torts foreign-intelligence-surveillance government-oversight human-experimentation pro-se-complaint Whether the United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeal's erred in violating the petitioner's constitutional rights
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…
20-484 Patricia L. Woods v. Robert Storms, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-estoppel equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment ninth-circuit-review pro-se-complaint statutes-of-limitation Whether the Ninth Circuit decision should be reversed and remanded
19-1393 Rachelle Davis v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response Waived actor civil-rights different-retaliatory-conduct eeoc-charge employment-discrimination lack-of-merit merit pro-se-complaint protected-activity reasonable-accommodation retaliation retaliation-claim same-actor statute-of-limitations timeliness untimely-complaint Does protection against retaliation apply even if the original complaint or charge was untimely or was found to lack merit when initiated by the same …
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…