probate-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5188 Bethzaeli Safier v. Thelma Woolridge Florida 2025-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court 's refusal to review Petitioner 's case permitted a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth A…
25A50 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from rejecting a foreign will that was validly executed and probated in …
24-1303 Zakiya Jendayi v. Della Hamlin, et al. California 2025-06-24 Denied article-iii-standing constitutional-uniformity due-process judicial-integrity probate-law trust-invalidation Whether a California probate court may invalidate a valid, lawfidly executed trust based on the contested claims of disinherited parties with no stand…
24-6872 In Re Lyle Roger Harrison 2025-03-27 Dismissed IFP court-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct police-reports probate-law speedy-trial Whether due process allows the denial of unredacted police reports and speedy trial for over 4,200 days by multiple judges in a probate case
24-6568 Andrivia Frances Wells v. Mecklenburg County Clerk of Probate Estates, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-distribution probate-law section-1983 Can a court deny Equitable Distribution and violate Due Process Rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
23-7848 In Re Lyle R. Harrison 2024-07-02 Dismissed IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process inheritance-rights judicial-misconduct police-reports probate-law speedy-trial Whether due process allows the Denial of all Unredacted Police Reports
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?
23-407 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…
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
21-1337 Patrick Gillis v. David Gillis Oregon 2022-04-08 Denied 14th-amendment court-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate-law standing Whether state courts are directly responsible for notifying parties with standing about hearings in cases before them, ensuring all parties have an op…
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
20-6719 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
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
19-6937 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…
19-543 Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Crown Pointe Care Center, et al. Ohio 2019-10-25 Denied beneficiary beneficiary-status civil-procedure creditors estate estate-representation executor executor-rights legal-standing pro-se pro-se-representation probate-law standing May the executor and sole beneficiary of an estate without creditors represent the estate pro se?
19-479 Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-law rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-rulings state-law void-orders Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two Void 'proposed' State Court Rulings?
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)