pro-se-pleading

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6808 William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2026-02-13 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement pro-se-pleading sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether a state court judge must adhere to the principle that a pro se pleading must be construed liberally? 2. Whether the trial judge misconstru…
25-6669 Ezequiel Rivera v. Nestle USA, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending IFP circuit-split eeoc-charge hostile-environment pro-se-pleading retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether federal courts violate Haines v. Kerner and create a de facto circuit split by narrowly construing pro se EEOC charges to include only checked…
25-643 Onwy Uzoigwe v. Charter Communications, LLC Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure forum-defendant-rule pro-se-pleading removal-jurisdiction service-of-process 1. Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's late return of a CPLR 312-a acknowledgment form does not constitute proper service u…
25-6073 Brett Alan James Talmadge v. Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine court-appointed-counsel habeas-corpus incarceration pro-se-pleading speedy-trial I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court for the District of Alaska's dismissal of Mr…
24-468 Jo Spence v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure liberal-pleading-standard pro-se-pleading rule-12b6 veterans-affairs whistleblower-protection Whether the Supreme Court's ruling on the liberal pleading standard for pro se attorneys was premature and inconsistent with precedent, and whether th…
23-7110 Ileen Cain v. Mercy University, fka Mercy College, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality first-amendment frcp-60b judgement judgment-finality pro-se-pleading rule-60(b) standing Which juncture of federal civil proceedings constitute Judgement entered establishes the finality of a civil complaint, Pursuant to Federal Rule Civil…
23-6683 Antoine Poteat v. Gerald Lydon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Pennsylvania State Police, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-rights fabrication-of-evidence legal-standard malicious-prosecution pro-se pro-se-pleading section-1983 speedy-trial Whether the Third Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson and McDonough?
23-5122 Ronny Deviod Walker v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts immunity impeachment judicial-misconduct misconduct pro-se-pleading procedural-rules standing Who may be complained about: where to file a complaint?
21-7800 Mark P. Donaldson and Peggy Hampel v. Nick Lyon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-petition judicial-procedure liberal-pleading-standard liberal-pleading-standards pro-se-pleading procedural-rules sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-rules standing Was the Sixth Circuit panel's actions in changing and discarding Peggy Hampel's en banc petition appropriate?
21-7671 Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness how-does-the-u.s.-court-of-appeals-for-the-10th-circuit-justify-affirming-the-decision-of-the-district-court
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-963 Neil McNaughton v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied civil-rights due-process erickson-precedent federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-accountability judicial-reasoning pleadings pro-se-pleading standing twombly twombly-plausibility Does the persistent misapplication of the Twombly plausibility test by Federal judges invariably lead to a violation of this Court's mandate in Ericks…
21-5752 Ivan Alexandrovich Vetcher v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court civil-rights controlled-substances court-access-rights deportation-challenge dismissal-with-prejudice due-process immigration immigration-law pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleading Whether the district court and court of appeals properly applied the requirements for pleadings as applied in most circuits
20-759 Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC Fourth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se complaint…
19-8023 Tom Eli Orr v. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 42-U.S.C.-section 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process sixth-circuit standing Has Mr. Orr been afforded procedural due process under the Constitution?
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was the presiding magistrate's analysis so flawed as to warrant this court to reverse and remand so that a correct legal standard may be applied?
18A1005 Jiying Wei v. University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-03 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure judicial-notice pro-se-pleading res-judicata seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a federal court to apply the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a manner that preserves a plaintiff's right to…
18-7441 James L. Wheeler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process haines-standard haines-v-kerner judicial-review liberal-construction pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-fairness standing Was the lower Court's Action in failing to allow Liberal Construction of Petitioner's claims in conflict with this Court's holding in Haines v. Kerner…
18-7368 Redmond Howard v. Daryl McCready, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-pleading special-litigation standing Had Judge Russell III drafted an inaccurate OPINION based on the American Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than the plaintiffs true claim: What the US D…