probate

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7090 Ambrose C. Mendes v. Kirshenbaum & Kirshenbaum, Attorneys at Law, Inc. Rhode Island 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accounting civil-procedure due-process ethical-obligations judicial-precedent pro-se-representation probate probate-law settlement-terms standing trial-by-jury trial-court-duty Whether the Trial court held a duty to obey the State supreme court holdings
23-6027 Christy Kay Sweet v. Kathryn Sweet, et al. Nevada 2023-11-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP foreign-will inheritance-law judicial-ethics nrs-133 nrs-133a probate probate-law testamentary-intent will-contest will-requirements Can a foreign will be admitted under NRS 133 if it fails to comply with the requirements of a foreign will as set forth in NRS 133A?
23-5867 Anita Bryant v. Delaware County Treasurer, et al. Indiana 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP beneficiary-standing civil-procedure constitutional-notice due-process estate-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice probate probate-court property-interest standing tax-sale-notice Whether one trial court can assume jurisdiction of an estate property in the possession and jurisdiction of a separate trial probate court without a c…
23-407 Robert Perkel, et al. v. Frank Canella, et al. New Jersey 2023-10-19 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate probate-law service-of-process will-contest Where the State of New Jersey's probate laws and rules of procedure require a party seeking to probate a decedent's Last Will provide notice and oppor…
23-360 Richard Sharif, et al. v. Horace Fox, Jr., as Trustee Seventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied bankruptcy-court due-process foreign-court jurisdiction probate rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdiction to overrule an Aleppo Syria foreign probate court order or whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies…
22-7110 Derek Windell Cole v. Marcie R. McMinimee, as Trustee of the Derek Windell Cole Trust Colorado 2023-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-interest legal-standing marital-property probate standing testamentary-trust trust-beneficiary Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals committed reversible error by applying division-of-marital-property law to a testamentary-trust case
22-7050 Dorothy Weigman v. Victoria Wertz, as Trustee California 2023-03-21 Denied IFP accounting civil-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mortgage-backed-securities probate probate-court racketeering securities-investment standing trust trust-administration Can there be a judgment for the approval of accounting when there has been no filing of an administration of the trust?
22-125 Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. Connecticut 2022-08-09 Denied due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes violates the Fourteenth Amendment due-process rights of intestate-distributees
20-1447 Kenneth R. Kunzer v. Lisa A. Hiniker, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response Waived breach-of-trust civil-procedure embezzlement estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraud probate probate-law resulting-trust testamentary-intent trust-administration Issue being raised
20-1386 Dale Sawyer Eisele v. The Estate of Joseph Brodie Smith New Hampshire 2021-04-02 Denied adoption adoption-law civil-rights dna-paternity due-process exhumation exhumation-request family-rights legal-interpretation pretermitted-heir probate standing Did interpreting this matter by using current adoption laws lead to a comprehension error that was detrimental to this case?
20-1254 Padma Rao v. Midland Trust Company Illinois 2021-03-10 Denied civil-procedure due-process legatee probate probate-estate property-rights standing survival-act wrongful-death Whether the Petitioner daughter and legatee of the deceased in a probate estate has any standing under the Due Process Clause to protect her property …
20-7165 Robin E. Jackson v. Marsha Josiah, as Trustee California 2021-02-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness laches probate probate-court procedural-due-process standing state-proceedings trust-litigation Whether 14th Amendment Procedural due process violated by Probate court based on principles of 'fundamental fairness
20-6719 Lucille Jackson v. John E. Williams, Jr. Illinois 2020-12-29 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure claim court-procedure estate estate-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error legal-claim motion probate probate-law Whether the court erred in denying Lucille Jackson Williams claim against the estate
20-496 Lynn Weinberg v. Deborah Bort Florida 2020-10-15 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court fourth-district-court full-faith-and-credit probate probate-law Whether the 4th District Court of Appeal of Florida violated due-process protections
20-5594 William N. Lucy v. Estate of Annie D. Fox Alabama 2020-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights discretion due-process estate-administration judicial-review probate procedural-requirements standing Whether the Mobile County Probate Court abused its discretion by ignoring Alabama law, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 43-2-42, and refusing to appoint …
19-8243 Jonathan Melvin LeDeux v. Jeannette Louise Anthony, as an Individual and in her Official Capacity as Trustee of The Emmett and Aralee Charlton Trust, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-vitiation judicial-error noerr-pennington-doctrine probate probate-clause separation-of-powers Can Juridically created rules such as, The Probate Clause and the Noerr Pennington Doctrine, ect. Interfere with due process without also violating th…
19-1206 Paul Boland, as Heir of the Estate of Dixie L. Boland, et al. v. Chris Boland, et al. Montana 2020-04-10 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process estate-dispute hearing probate probate-law standing Were Petitioners denied due process
19-7263 Praveen Kevin Khurana v. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Idaho 2020-01-13 Denied IFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-11-usc-362 civil-procedure due-process fraudulent-transfer governmental-unit medicaid-recovery probate property-rights property-tax property-transfer real-estate real-estate-transfer supremacy-clause voidable Whether pre-petition probate charges/claims by a governmental unit against a real property of a debtor are treated the same as property tax charges, r…
19-6937 Scherrieto Little v. Janis Nau, as Administrator California 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power attorney-ethics civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-fraud fraud judicial-misconduct legal-ethics probate probate-law rule-8.4 When a violation of CA Rule 8.4 (c) occur, should the heir's of an estate have to pay for the fraud, corruption, and lie's that have been committed ag…
19-754 Estate of Norman Robert Knight, Jr., Deceased, et al. v. Beatrice E. Whitten, as a Special Administrator, et al. South Carolina 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-common-law judicial-qualification one-person-one-vote probate probate-court service-of-process standing voting-rights Whether lower courts erred by acting on a petition filed and served without summons as required
19-410 In Re Richard J. Fields 2019-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-distribution fraud judicial-discretion legal-ethics mental-health probate probate-procedure standing testamentary-capacity will-forgery wills witness-testimony Should we ignore a forged initial because our law does not require an initial to make a Will valid? How about people falsifying a will by switching it…
19-377 Kraig Rudinger Kast v. Erickson Productions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied capacity-to-be-sued civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process erisa frcp-17(b) inter-vivos-trust jurisdiction probate probate-law standing tenth-amendment Whether the district and appellate courts have jurisdiction over a person if the person lacks capacity to be sued under FRCP 17(b)
18-1440 Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. North Dakota 2019-05-17 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and equa…
18-9009 Mirella Landi Adelman v. Lawrence Root, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-planning false-information guardianship legal-document mental-capacity personal-estate petition probate standing Whether the request or petition for guardianship for the person and estate of Daniel Lindsey Adelman was submitted under false information and should …
18-1152 Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process
18-890 David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario Second Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim
18-7283 Angel Bartlett v. Kalamazoo County Community Mental Health Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights corrective-programs discriminatory-practices due-process false-imprisonment false-reporting false-reports mental-health mental-health-confinement probate religious-discrimination torture-allegations weapons-of-mass-destruction Is it illegal or wrongful for Community Mental Health to be holding Angel Bartlett in corrective programs even when there is no open probate to hold A…