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25A909 William Hudson v. Delaware Delaware 2026-02-12 Application criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review postconviction-relief pro-se-litigant state-court-review Question not identified.
25-6552 Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant removal-jurisdiction Whether 28 U.S.C. §1443(1) permits removal to federal court when a pro se litigant with disabilities alleges systemic discrimination, retaliation, and…
25-6531 Rafael Jorge v. Marie Adler First Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP appellate-procedure district-court judicial-discretion jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant Whether a court of appeals can dismiss an appeal by a pro se litigant for failing to file a Notice of Appeal within 30 days of entry of judgment by th…
25-6408 Lynette Cooper v. City of Baltimore, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending IFP chemical-battery civil-rico due-process judicial-review pro-se-litigant witness-tampering Did the Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's Due Process rights by affirming the District Court's sua sponte dismissal of a detailed civil RICO c…
25A726 Orna Shaposhnik v. Quality Loan Service Corp., et al. California 2025-12-19 Application ada-accommodations cognitive-impairment jurisdictional-extension pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process supreme-court-procedure Whether a pro se litigant with documented cognitive and neurological impairments is entitled to reasonable accommodations and an extension of time to …
25A722 Richard R. Lawless v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process frivolous-dismissal pro-se-litigant section-1915 Whether a federal appellate court can summarily dismiss a pro se civil rights appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) without providing meani…
25-6296 Emmanuel Folly v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending IFP arbitration-findings civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigant Whether systemic barriers preventing a pro se litigant from securing counsel constitute 'extraordinary circumstances' justifying equitable tolling of …
25-647 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity Whether a federal appellate court may deem constitutional arguments waived when a pro se appellant raised the substance of those arguments but did not…
25-6256 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-11-26 Pending IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause Does a Florida court's failure to apply 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) tolling to dismissed claims, and the excessive use of per curiam affirmances, constitute a…
25-6209 Rick Negrette v. Phu V. Pham, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-usc-110 bankruptcy-court fine-imposition judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant public-assistance Whether the bankruptcy court abused its discretion in imposing a $12,000 fine on a pro se litigant receiving public assistance without considering the…
25A604 Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-21 Application financial-hardship indigency petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court time-extension Whether an indigent prisoner seeking Supreme Court review may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on finan…
25-572 James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias toward pro se litigants violates due process and equal protection guarantees; and whether absolute an…
25-6074 Olayiwola Adebisi v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2025-11-10 Denied IFP child-support-enforcement due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-access pro-se-litigant service-of-process Whether the Texas courts violated clearly established federal precedent protecting jurisdictional access and due process rights of pro se litigants wh…
25-6056 Ruben Santoyo v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sanctions Whether a district court may impose punitive monetary sanctions sua sponte after a notice of appeal has divested it of jurisdiction, in light of confl…
25-553 Sossamma George Sebastin v. Sebastin Francis Illinois 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights custody-evaluation due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness Whether fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution are violated when a court denies a pro se litigant access to a sealed custody evaluator's re…
25A511 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Marcus Bach Armas, Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami Dade County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Application case-volume civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-review petition-dismissal pro-se-litigant Whether a federal court of appeals systematically and improperly dismisses a litigant's civil rights or constitutional claims without substantive revi…
25-5966 Mally Gage v. Mayo Clinic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-act due-process motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant religious-accommodation title-vii Whether employers can demand statements of apostasy and restrict religious communication under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and whether p…
25A479 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-10-27 Application appellate-procedure eleventh-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari given multiple pending cases and no opposition from resp…
25-389 Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh v. Swedish Health Services, et al. Washington 2025-10-02 Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant summary-judgment Whether a state court's application of summary judgment standards violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by excluding qualified expert…
25-5774 Jason Adam Jensen v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis mental-illness pro-se-litigant Does the in forma pauperis dismissal process under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) (ii) deprive pro se litigants with mental illness of due process and proc…
25A363 Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Whether an attorney's advocacy in opposing disability accommodations can constitute discrimination or retaliation under the Americans with Disabilitie…
25A315 Kiya Cunningham v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant summary-judgment Whether a federal district court violates a party's due process rights by striking a summary judgment opposition without providing an opportunity to r…
25A318 William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts in-forma-pauperis law-library-access legal-communication prison-mail-policy pro-se-litigant Whether prison mail policies and limited law library access unconstitutionally impede an indigent prisoner's ability to timely file a petition for wri…
25-5558 Matthew Andrew Garces v. Cindy Hernandez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion default-judgment due-process fifth-circuit jurisdictional-limit pro-se-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a default judgment against a pro se litigant constitutes a 'full and fair opportunity to litigate' for…
25-5244 Kristy Richard v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
25-104 Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied arbitration-clause civil-rights double-jeopardy electronic-filing jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Whether the Federal District Court improperly denied Pro Se litigant's ECF notification privileges and jurisdiction to enforce trade agreement past ar…
25-5206 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. George Washington University Hospital District of Columbia 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract due-process eeoc-rights equitable-tolling pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims as untimely and denying equitable tolling despite ongoing internal adjudication a…
25A98 Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification Question not identified.
25-5074 Michael Horton v. Captain Gilchrist, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discovery-rights federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigant section-1983 summary-judgment May federal courts implement an uncodified special report procedure that divests pro se prisoner litigants of discovery rights afforded them under the…
25-5016 General Parker v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigant rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations Whether the 7th Circuit's dismissal of a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint constitutes a denial of access to courts and violates due process
24-7464 Shukeitha Jackson v. AbbVie, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process mental-illness pro-se-litigant title-vii Whether a pro se litigant with documented severe mental illness is entitled to appointed counsel in a civil rights employment matter under Title VII w…
24-1285 Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang California 2025-06-17 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se-litigant Whether a trial judge's prejudgment, bias, and usurpation of the adversarial role in a civil trial constitutes a violation of due process and equal pr…
24-7129 Frank John Richard v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment initial-disclosure pro-se-litigant Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26(a)(1)(B)(iv) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, thereby rendering the Confrontation and Equal Pro…
24-1123 Rahim Caldwell v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process emergency-certification judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant When the litigants are prose, should inferior courts be required to specify deficiencies to be corrected when a prose litigant is subjected to emergen…
24-7077 Todd Stephens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment pro-se-litigant restitution Does imposing a restitution order of $130,220,803.65 derived from speculative calculations and disproportionately exceeding the petitioner's limited n…
24-6911 William Hall v. Michigan Michigan 2025-04-01 Denied IFP court-rule-amendment jury-inaccuracies legal-remedy michigan-supreme-court pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's failure to apply the May 1, 2021 amendment to MCR 6.502(D) and the Castro v. United States holding constitutes a …
24-6874 In Re Robert D. Batson 2025-03-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit mandamus pro-se-litigant Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has created local rules that arbitrarily encroach upon pro se litigants' rights and violate constitution…
24-6829 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler Vermont 2025-03-21 Denied IFP due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review pro-se-litigant procedural-safeguards retroactive-restrictions Does a state violate the Due Process Clause when retroactively imposing litigation restrictions on a pro se litigant without specific findings, height…
24-6751 Victoria Lunn Jones v. Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated Fourth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-jurisdiction eeoc-guidelines judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant service-of-process summary-judgment Was the Respondent's Reply to Plaintiff's Response In Opposition to Defendants Motion for Summary Judgment filed on September 13, 2023, but the proces…
24-6710 Robert Klein v. Brookhaven Health Care Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigant seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment guarantees a pro se litigant's right to a jury trial in civil cases under federal law despite lower court rulings
24-6527 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Gilbert Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant self-defense Whether the trial court violated Mr. Saved's procedural and substantive due process rights by failing to hold a competency hearing and allowing him to…
24-6493 Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause an…
24A761 Chad Cutler v. Anthony Wills, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies civil-rights exhaustion-requirement prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigant Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement bars a pro se prisoner's civil rights claim when administrative remedies were allege…
24-822 Alejandro Alers, Jr. v. Olympia Medical Center, et al. California 2025-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure equal-protection power-of-attorney pro-se-litigant probate-code wrongful-death Are pro se litigants entitled to equal protection, commence wrongful death lawsuits, and represent themselves without counsel under California law?
24-6278 In Re Sherly Cadet 2025-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contract-enforcement fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant racial-discrimination section-1981 Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing a pro se litigant's appeal challenging the interpretation of 42 U.S.C. §1981 and the right to be heard
24-6005 Aaron Abadi v. Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP concrete-injury constitutional-injury government-policy judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing Does a plaintiff have standing when they allege personal, concrete injuries stemming from government policies, even when such policies cause widely sh…
24A413 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete court-access institutional-constraints law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant Whether a prisoner's limited law library access and restricted legal research time due to institutional constraints constitutes a substantial burden o…
24-5808 Cyrus Hazari v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-23 Denied IFP ada-accommodation disability-discrimination federal-preemption judicial-standard legal-remedy pro-se-litigant Whether a federal judge can set a uniform national standard for ADA accommodation and preempt state court rules, and whether California courts systema…
24-357 Wei Qiu v. Scott County Board of Education Sixth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act discrimination due-process pro-se-litigant rule-59e summary-judgment Whether a federal court violated a pro se litigant's due process rights by denying her Rule 59(e) motion and sanction motion without proper justificat…
24A291 Charles Garo Avetian v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-24 Presumed Complete circuit-split electronic-filing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant Whether a notice of appeal filed outside the 60-day deadline due to an electronic filing system malfunction should be deemed timely under federal appe…
24A249 Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete due-process filing-ban judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pre-filing-review pro-se-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit violated due process by imposing a pre-filing review order without notice or opportunity to be heard, effectively creating a…
24-5367 Khadijah A. Muhammad Kebe v. Washington Township School District, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-aid pro-se-litigant systemic-disadvantage Whether the lack of legal aid for pro se litigants in civil cases violates equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
24-5262 Stephen Tripodi v. David Fero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discrimination due-process expert-witness medical-malpractice pro-se-litigant veterans-affairs Whether the Ninth Circuit's affirmation of summary judgment against a pro se litigant for failing to produce expert witnesses, when such witnesses are…
24A114 Edward Greeman v. Edward Burnett, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance law-library post-conviction pro-se-litigant Whether a state prisoner's inability to access a law library constitutes a violation of his constitutional right to meaningful post-conviction review
24A30 Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status and appellate filing fees violates a pro se litigant's constitutional right to meaningful access to the…
24A20 H.C. v. A.N. California 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction equitable-tolling filing-extension medical-disability pro-se-litigant procedural-deadline Whether a pro se litigant's medical disability and physical limitations can constitute good cause for equitable tolling of procedural filing deadlines…
23A1157 Alicia Marie Richards v. Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant procedural-barriers supreme-court Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments protect a pro se litigant's right to meaningful access to the Supreme Court and timely filing of a petitio…
23-7474 Bogdan Nicolescu v. Dave Bobby, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-explanation merits-panel pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness uncandid-briefing Is a 3-judge merits panel of a U.S. court of appeals at liberty, perhaps over-reliant on the opposing party's counseled but uncandid briefing, to not …
23-7389 Brad Evans v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the State of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroach upon the personal rights…
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-…
23-1120 DaBeth Manns v. U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Banc of America Funding Corporation for Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates 2007-03 District of Columbia 2024-04-16 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-claim foreclosure-debt-claim pro-se-litigant stare-decisis Should the District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision be upheld in part or whole, reversed and/or the case remanded?
23-1104 In Re Robert M. Miller 2024-04-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion bias-prejudice civil-procedure court-discretion federal-defendant judicial-bias judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation writ-of-mandamus Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus to reassign cases due to judge's bias
23A894 Terrance Brown v. Andrew Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-prerequisite notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant time-limitation Whether a pro se litigant's notice of appeal filed outside the standard 30-day window can be considered timely under federal appellate procedural rule…
23-7137 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton Texas 2024-04-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal Can a state district judge be removed from a child-custody case for violation-of-due-process-clause, 14th-amendment, when the judge omits exception-28…
23-955 Robert M. Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-01 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-7703 civil-service equitable-powers interim-relief mixed-case preliminary-injunction pro-se-litigant whistleblower Does the district court review a motion for interim relief under the standards for a preliminary injunction, under 5U.S.C. § 7703(c), or under the cou…
23A746 Carlos Jackson v. Markel American Insurance Company, et al. Nevada 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete civil-rights complaint-amendment due-process judicial-discretion medical-emergency pro-se-litigant Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional due process rights are violated when a district court judge denies an opportunity to amend a complaint and …
23A748 Carlos Jackson v. Dickinson Wright PLLC, et al. Nevada 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete attorney-error certiorari extension-of-time legal-deadline pro-se-litigant supreme-court Whether equitable tolling of the certiorari deadline is appropriate when an attorney provides incorrect deadline information to a pro se litigant
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
23-6654 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Terry Quisenberry, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights comanche-tribe due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-recognition legal-liability pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether an enrolled member of the Comanche Tribe is liable for wrongs under a treaty
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
23A698 Martha Carrascal v. American Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Presumed Complete discovery-sanctions dismissal employment-discrimination judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant rule-37 Whether a district court may impose the sanction of dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(b)(2)(A)(v) for a plaintiff's failure to comply…
23-6543 Odeiu Joy Powers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-service due-process federal-civil-service judicial-discretion preference-eligible pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness sua-sponte-dismissal unilateral-ban veteran Must rulings reflect material facts on the record?
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
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
23A625 Shaheryar Khan v. Kent Seton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-dismissal frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit pro-se-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal as frivolous and denying in forma pauperis status
23A594 Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default Whether a pro se litigant's Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States can be dismissed with prejudice when the plaintiff fails to time…
23A549 Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete constitutional-access-to-courts court-appointed-counsel federal-prisoner language-barrier petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant Whether a federal prisoner who does not speak English is entitled to court-appointed counsel to assist in preparing a petition for certiorari
23-6254 William Graves, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the state of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroaches upon the personal righ…
23A522 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment Whether Texas's systemic failure to provide an adequate procedural vehicle for raising ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a criminal de…
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…
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…
23A387 Towaki Komatsu v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete deadline-extension financial-hardship litigation-burden pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant experiencing financial hardship and ongoing litigation can be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of ce…
23-5855 Regina Tate v. Hamilton County Election Commission Sixth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-counsel pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Dismissal should be reconsidered for failure to appoint legal counsel
23-5805 Jeffrey Corporal v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction filing-deadline harmless-error pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations Does a federal district court harmlessly err when it erroneously extends a defendant's inexcusably neglectfully missed filing deadline to respond to a…
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
23-5545 Robert K. Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Seventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings pro-se-litigant Did the lower courts err in dismissing the case and denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint
23-5492 Dennis Christensen v. Barry Reddish, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process handwritten-petition illegible-document potential-legal-issue prison-law-library pro-se-litigant standing unclear-text unreadable-text Whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the case without providing the petitioner an opportunity to amend the complaint to show…
23-5406 Kecia Porter v. USAA Casualty Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights color-of-law cooperation-clause due-process equal-protection prejudice pro-se-litigant summary-judgment under-color-of-law Whether the 7th Circuit's decision is an error, contrary to well-settled law, finding respondent was 'substantially prejudiced' by petitioner's action…
23-142 Joe L. Adams v. Royal Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medical-negligence nursing-home-abuse nursing-home-reform-act pressure-ulcers pro-se-litigant standing Did the court of Appeal Err in Affirming the District Court Decision regarding Jurisdiction over Nursing-Home-Abuse-Cases
23-5284 John Wesley Lee, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation dna-evidence dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant video-recording Whether an Indigent Pro Se Petitioner is Entitled to counsel
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court Can a state tribunal deprive litigants to that tribunal equal protection of the law and even handed justice based upon a commitment offense?
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…
22-7456 Zhaojin David Ke v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-discrimination pro-se-litigant standing Whether the right to present evidence in an appeals court is Constitutionally protected
22-7294 Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment Whether the systemic discrimination against pro se litigants by the federal courts, including the imposition of punitive sanctions for filing non-friv…
22-7246 Mikequale Miller v. Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack of Delaware, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process gideon-v-wainwright pro-se-litigant products-liability standing strict-liability Should a Pro Se Litigant in a products-liability case be given the same or similar Constitutional protection and liberties as Pro Se criminal defendan…
22-7176 In Re Thomas J. M. Goodin 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus mandamus-petition pro-se-litigant standing Whether granting of this writ will conform to the Court's appellate jurisdiction that only exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Court…
22-7093 Walter Harris v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights culer-v-adams due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness section-1983 standing Whether the petitioner's 42 USC 1983 complaint was improperly dismissed for failing to cite specific statutes and case law on the PLRA complaint form,…
22-6937 Robert L. Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights court-access cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment pro-se-litigant redress Does a lifetime ban to courts under 28 U.S.C. §1915(g) unless one pays in full deny due process violating the 14th amendment right to seek redress?
22-6785 Ian Gage v. Midwestern University Ninth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-system medical-privacy pro-se-litigant standing throop-v-fe-young-co Do litigants under the Americans with Disability Act lose federal protections to medical privacy through a new interpretation of the 1963 Throop v. F.…
22-6506 Andrew Simpson v. Carl Davis, dba Davis Construction Co., et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1915 civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process exceptional-circumstances informa-pauperis legal-representation mental-illness pro-se-litigant When acting under 28 USC 1915 Informa paupers, do a mental illness qualify as a 'exceptional circumstance' for appointment of council? Do a mentally i…
22-621 Linda Matarese, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hilda Duld Bauman, Deceased v. Virginia Hospital Center Arlington Health System, dba Virginia Hospital Center, et al. Virginia 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Did the Supreme Court of Virginia violate 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 …
22-548 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
22-6035 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…
22-6030 In Re Jason Paul Maple 2022-11-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-trial-error due-process free-speech jurisdictional-power manifest-disregard pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit acted in excess of its jurisdictional power
22-428 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived billing-errors dispute-letters due-process fair-credit-billing-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a Creditor must follow the requirements specified in 1974 by the Fair Credit Billing Act
22-5830 William Richter v. Ghaliah Obaisi, as Executor of the Estate of Saleh Obaisi Seventh Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-assistance pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-errors Whether the Faivie Te Apnot Cowimwrel Oy Apneal Foa Rosie, OF the Disthirel Cords Alaue of Dis hes Ze Faleng To Recess wee Conmtel Upow Wilheincsal of…
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
22-5444 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…
22-5398 In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson 2022-08-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-sanctions habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant standing state-corrective-process state-court-appeals Whether a federal court can constitutionally impose sanctions upon a pro se petitioner when such a petitioner is without an available state corrective…
22-67 Robert "Bob" King v. Specialty Hospital of Washington, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-26 Denied anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expedited-hearing free-speech fundamental-rights pro-se-litigant procedural-rights special-motion-to-dismiss standing Whether the mandatory expedited hearing on a special motion to dismiss under an anti-SLAPP law is necessary to prevent a deprivation of fundamental pr…
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…
21-7801 Richard E. Shreves v. United States District Court for the District of Montana Ninth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-authority document-access due-process e-filing e-filing-program inmate-rights prison-litigation pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court exceed its authority in determining pro-se inmate litigants were not entitled to one free copy of filed documents under 28 U.S.…
21-7805 William Paul Burch v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant removal sanctions What is the complete legal definition of frivolous?
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?
21-7694 Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme…
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…
21-1211 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
21-6977 Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-petition postal-service-interference pro-se-litigant sex-trafficking sua-sponte-dismissal Question not identified
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?
21-6508 Daniel Jones v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-for-counsel pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the appeal pursuant to 25 U.S.C.§ 1915(e) based solely on the denial of the motion for…
21-815 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Bruce S. Rogow, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts jurisdictional-limits notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-documents standing Has a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the relevance of the resetting of the end date for the filing of the Notice of Appeal under FRAP …
21-628 Ebenezer K. Howe, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process irs judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant recusal Do courts of appeal exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresented litigan…
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…
21-5716 Pecola Cousar v. New York-Presbyterian Queens Second Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery district-court-discretion due-process pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court erred and/or abused its discretion
21-5497 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. …
21-5465 Kent Glen Williams v. Alan Stewart, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection free-speech petition pro-se-litigant procedural-requirements section-1983 standing Whether Rule 3.2 of the Idaho Department of Correction violates the First, Fourteenth, and Petition Clauses of the U.S. Constitution
21-45 Peter C. Benedith v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived attempted-murder civil-rights due-process electronic-harassment free-speech legal-system-integrity pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-life Question presented to the court
21-5018 In Re Zoe Ajjahnon 2021-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process false-claims-act federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant summary-judgment third-circuit-court Whether the False Claims Act statutes preclude established standards of Federal Rules for Civil Procedure Rule 56 in a default/summary judgment conclu…
20-8178 Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal Whether a judge must be disqualified under 28 U.S.C. § 455 if the judge makes rulings more restrictive against one party than the other in comparable …
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…
20-1544 Felicia Ross v. Peregrine Health Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel counsel-request district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Did the District Courts err by not allowing Due Process?
20-7925 In Re Clement Mosseri 2021-05-04 Denied IFP court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias legal-representation pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel unbiased-tribunal Is petitioner entitled to a fair hearing before an unbiased tribunal?
20-7888 James Arthur Ross v. Steven Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-treatment pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness standing summary-judgment Did the District Court abuse its discretion in refusing to appoint counsel?
20-7860 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law pro-se-litigant property-rights sanctions statutory-interpretation Is the statutory law taking of a person's property arbitrary, too broad and discriminatory under Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161 (2002) and v…
20-7693 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. C. Joksch, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-appeal pro-se-litigant standing three-strikes Is a prisoner who is found to have three strikes pursuant to 28 USC 1915 entitled to a one-time appeal on the merits of this finding?
20-1323 Gregory Patmythes v. City of Madison, Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied appellate-rights civil-procedure clerk court-accessibility due-process electronic-filing federal-rules judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant procedural-failure standing Whether a pro se litigant can be penalized for a CM/ECF failure that renders the clerk's office inaccessible
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…
20-1140 Angela W. DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied appeal appeal-rights civil-procedure consolidation due-process final-judgment pro-se-litigant rule-42-consolidation rules-enabling-act self-representation substantive-right substantive-rights Whether a Rule 42 consolidation can deprive a party of a substantive right—the right to an appeal from a final judgment—when the Rules Enabling Act pr…
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
20-1102 Michael James Hanna v. Little League Baseball, Inc. California 2021-02-10 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether California's vexatious-litigant-statute unconstitutionally-deprives-a-litigant-of-due-process-and-access-to-the-courts
20-7051 Tomas Zavalidroga v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech iccpr pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) pro…
20-1052 In Re Christopher Gary Baylor 2021-02-02 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant section-1983 section-1983-claim Does a non-prisoner, indigent, pro se litigant to a Section 1983 claim who initially proceeds In Forma Pauperis but later pays for his appeal, lose th…
20-6981 Phillip Jay Walter, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment appellate-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-appeal pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment venue Is an Appellate Court duty bound to ensure that an Appellant - whether Represented or Pro Se - is afforded a full, fair, and meaningful appeal
20-6838 Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing Whether a lower federal court loses jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition upon release of the civil detention petitioner
20-6542 Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all…
20-6496 Michael Alford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-services expert-witness forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-assistance motion-of-innocence pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel Whether the court erred in refusing to order legal assistance and forensic software expert assistance to obtain and submit factual evidence
20-6506 Andy Buxton v. Iva C. Dougherty, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-02 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure discovery due-process pro-se-litigant standing Question not identified
20-6413 Maxine Shepard v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause pro-se-litigant procedural-default service-of-process standing Whether the COA improperly held in conflict with other courts that the Petitioner did not show good cause to excuse procedural default and allow for a…
20-699 Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal Whether a plaintiff has an absolute right to voluntary dismissal under FRCP Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i)
20-6288 Allen Snyder v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation victim-identification Whether the lower courts erred in denying Snyder's application for post-conviction relief based on an apparent confusion about the identity of the vic…
20-623 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdictional-dispute patent patent-infringement pro-se-litigant standing takings writ-of-certiorari Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Writ of Certiorari under the All Writs Act against the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or against the …
20-624 Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing Is it a question of law for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process or viola…
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
20-6229 Jerry Earl Johnson v. Erin McReynolds Nevada 2020-11-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mailbox-rule pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations Does the mailbox rule apply to filing of the complaint when a pro se litigant submits the civil complaint to the prison law library to be mailed via U…
20-5736 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-counsel fla-r-app-p-9-141(d) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review pro-se-litigant standing writ-of-review Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to review the underlying merits of an issue when the action being challenged is a petition for…
20-5608 Michael Jonathon Besoyan v. Jimmy Yee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-access jury-trial pro-se-litigant void-orders Whether any court or tribunal should be allowed to deny or deprive any citizen of basic rights listed in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment
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…
20-211 Barry Rosen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response Waived airspace-system civil-procedure due-process injury-in-fact national-airspace-system pro-se-litigant public-use-airport separation-of-powers standing statutory-rights Whether a federally certificated Pilot demonstrated injury-in-fact
20-5354 Johnnie Lee Jordan, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process giglio-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence pro-se-litigant standing Whether pro se litigants can be sentenced to a natural life sentence because of Giglio-and-Brady-violations
20-147 Timothy B. Brown v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied adversary-process civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate magistrate-referral pro-se-litigant res-judicata sua-sponte Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v. California empower a District Judge to raise the issue of res judicata sua sponte?
20-5061 Philip Emiabata v. BB&T, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice pleadings pro-se-litigant rule-12d summary-judgment Whether the district court is required under Rule 12(d) to exclude matters outside the pleadings or give notice of conversion to summary judgment
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-8768 Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-protections contract-law discovery-rights due-process government-legislation grounds-for-contracting judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant self-incrimination supreme-court Question not identified
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)
19-8291 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…
19-1202 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?
19-1122 Hong Tang v. University of Baltimore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-injunctive-relief declaratory-relief due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young jurisdictional-grounds official-capacity pro-se-litigant service-of-process sovereign-immunity standing Whether the lower courts should have liberally construed the pro se litigant's claims
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
19-7702 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-retaliation court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation retaliation retaliation-claims standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court decisions conflict with the formulation describing retaliation claims within the U.S. Circui…
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
19-964 Christopher Lawrence v. University Hospital, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity due-process federal-procedure interpleader interpleader-statute minimal-diversity pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 11th Circuit violated petitioners' rights as beneficiaries to allow and select enjoining siblings as claimants and real parties in a negli…
19-958 Bahar Mikhak v. University of Phoenix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response Waived clear-and-convincing-evidence counsel-negligence dismissal-with-prejudice fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court frcp-60(b)(3) frcp-60b new-trial pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process Was the Ninth Circuit's holding wrong for departing from its own precedent and creating a conflict with other circuits over the application of the 'cl…
19-7421 Lawyer J. Henderson v. Kevin Franklin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claim bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition chapter-7-trustee civil-rights claim-abandonment disclosure due-process inadvertent-disclosure intent-standard judicial-estoppel presumption-of-deceit pro-se-litigant standing Whether a debtor who has inadvertently failed to disclose the existence of a potential claim in a bankruptcy petition should be estopped from litigati…
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…
19-833 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2020-01-02 Denied Response Waived appeal bias civil-rights constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-bias pro-se-litigant right-to-appeal standing state-appeal-courts Whether the state appeal courts have the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign 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
19-775 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appeal appeal-rights bias constitution constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause-of-the-14th-amendment equal-protection federal-court foreign-litigant judicial-bias prejudice pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation Whether the Federal court has the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
19-6694 Tim Sundy v. Martha C. Christian, Judge, et al. Georgia 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights court-officer criminal-activity due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants property-rights state-court-officers takings Whether pro se litigants are immune from criminal activity by State court officers
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?
19-476 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud housing-dispute judicial-discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant retaliation sanctions standing state-officer-misconduct Can state officers discriminate against pro se litigants?
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…
19-5844 James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-error due-process evidence expert-testimony precedent pro-se-litigant standing summary-judgment Did the District Court error in determining that a 9th Circuit Appellate ruling from almost two decades ago in Bahrampour v. Lampert, 356 F.3d 969, 97…
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…
19-5206 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 …
19-5210 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…
19-25 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…
18-9373 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?
18-1452 Jose A. Perez v. Physician Assistant Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 amendment civil-procedure constitutional-amendment constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations takings williamson-county Whether Mr. Perez can amend his complaint to allege that a State cannot exclude a person from the practice of medicine in a manner that contravenes th…
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?
18-9169 Andre McDaniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255 6th-amendment appeal appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment standing transcripts Does a pro-se petitioner forfeit his constitutional rights when denied opportunity to have merits heard?
18-1407 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Should the First Circuit Court have applied the doctrine of equitable tolling regarding Appellant's tardy brief and heard the merits of the case with …
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…
18-9129 Delroy T. Booth v. Trevonza Bobbitt, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-fees dismissal docketing-fees due-process eleventh-circuit fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal by stating 'Failed to Pay the Docketing & Filing Fee…
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…
18-8838 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process due-process-clauses federal-tort-claims-act in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity standing Whether, When, and to What extent raised therefor, a civil action is commenced
18-8839 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process federal-tort-claims-act frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Supreme Court has clearly established uniformity precedent for pro-se litigants' procedural due process rights under 28 USC § 1915 screeni…
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…
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
18-8354 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…
18-8170 In Re William Edward Cloninger 2019-02-27 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-rights congress-legislation constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection legal-reform prison-litigation pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments were violated by the dismissal of his appeal
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Dismissal of petitioner's employment discrimination lawsuit as a sanction without prior court finding or warning of discovery violation
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…
18-8008 Cedrick Euron Draper v. Muy Pizza Southeast LLC, dba Pizza Hut Fourth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-courts'-review-of-a-federal-courts'-decr appellate-review detected-fraud-upon-the-court-predominantly-voidab federal-courts fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court immunity impersonation-by-title-18 intentionally-and-unintentionally-protected-or-unp judgment-void judicial-immunity legal-misrepresentation overrule-frivolous-defiance pro-se-ligitant's-defense-not-identified-to-author pro-se-litigant procedural-defiance voidable-judgment fraud upon the court
18-7959 Paul David Maze v. Renea Terrell, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12(b)(6) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion plra prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant section-1983 standing Does a prisoner's §1983 civil matter require a remand if a District Court wrongly equate the standard for frivolousness of a complaint under §1915(d) …
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…
18-971 Faye R. Hobson v. James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived ada administrative-exhaustion chevron-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling fmla pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation rehabilitation-act standing title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a pro se party's mistaken belief about filing deadlines
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants
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…
18-7398 Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt New Mexico 2019-01-14 Denied IFP amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summary judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues?
18-7357 David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 1983 su…
18-7268 Christopher Berry v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-filing-requirements due-process federal-law federal-procedural-rules newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court Did the holding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law in …
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…
18-804 Wanda McClure Dry, as Administrator Ad Litem for the Estate of Laurence R. Dry v. Christi Lenay Fields Steele, et al. Tennessee 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process estate-administration notice notice-requirement personal-service pro-se-litigant rule-25 rule-4 rule-5 service-of-process Does Rule 5 service by mail to a deceased pro se party satisfy the due process requirement of notice and opportunity to be heard prior to the taking o…
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
18-6730 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…
18-633 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…
18-6501 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…
18-6326 Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether the lower courts' rulings directly conflict with the holdings in (1) McQuiggin v. Perkins; (2) Cronic v. United States, and (3) Cuyler v. Sull…
18-6314 Vilaychith Khouanmany v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appointment-of-counsel career-offender civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentences habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process right-to-bail right-to-counsel sentence-enhancements sentencing speedy-trial Whether the denial of appealability of case no. 17-1243 was proper when the issues of career offender, enhancements of priors, and excessive sentences…
18-6263 Ilich Vargas v. John McMahon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-complaint constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pleading pro-se-litigant recusal screening section-1983 standing Whether a district court judge and a magistrate conducting a 28 U.S.C. § 1915 IFP screening acted on an excess of discretion and beyond the limits of …
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…
18-6109 Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service Ninth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a
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…
18-239 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 …
18-5643 Nathan Craft v. Willie Bonds, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search fourth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant schneckloth-v-bustamonte stone-v-powell When pro-se litigant's 4th amendment consent search claim is misunderstood and misstated, can Stone v. Powell standard be applied to consent search is…
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
18-5244 Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an initial-review-collateral-proceeding?
23A892 Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete booklet-format court-procedure docketing-fee filing-extension pro-se-litigant supreme-court-rules Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to pay docketing fees and submit required Supreme Court booklets under Rule 38(a) and Rule 3…