procedural-dismissal

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25-947 Robert William Moss v. Shawn M. Latourette, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection New Jersey 2026-02-10 Pending 14th-amendment due-process entire-controversy-doctrine forest-management procedural-dismissal state-law Whether a state court must explain why a plaintiff should have previously raised a state law issue under the entire controversy doctrine
25-6724 Diamond King v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review procedural-dismissal service-evasion whistleblower-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by affirming dismissal of …
25-6500 Anita Bryant v. Estate of Laura J. Bryant Seventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending IFP appellate-rights court-of-appeals in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion meritorious-claim procedural-dismissal Whether the United States Court of Appeal Seventh Circuit abused its discretion by improperly dismissing an In Forma Pauperis (I FP) action as frivolo…
24A1292 Terry Duane Qualls v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-27 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal district-court eighth-circuit motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal rehearing Whether a criminal defendant's appeal can be dismissed for procedural reasons without addressing the underlying merits of the case
24A645 Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-jurisdiction pro-se procedural-dismissal Whether pro se litigants can overcome procedural deficiencies in a federal civil rights action when alleging systemic filing interference
24A484 Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights constructive-dismissal fifth-circuit pro-se procedural-dismissal retaliation Whether a pro se plaintiff alleging workplace retaliation and constructive dismissal can overcome procedural dismissal and seek Supreme Court review o…
23A790 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete cause-of-action certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review procedural-dismissal time-extension Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the Petitioner's case for failure to state a viable cause of action
23-6721 Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address the petitioner's claims
23-6328 Andrew Fields, III v. Patrick J. Bouldin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied IFP appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-justification pleadings procedural-dismissal standing Whether the Avgellet Couet ceroRed in dismisSinG 4 prellants Appeal Soe dniluee to cure A defect
23A479 Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete certiorari court-filing emergency-application judicial-review pro-se procedural-dismissal Whether a pro se litigant's emergency application for relief can be procedurally dismissed due to incomplete or improperly filed materials
23-5981 Nestor Leon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts amendment-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal standing Did the district court err in not granting the petitioner an evidentiary hearing before the record conclusively declined that the petitioner was not e…
23-5317 Aaron J. Bressi v. Jeffery Brennen, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure court-procedure due-process failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-dismissal public-interest standing How does this Complaint get dismissed by Both the Honorable District Court and the Honorable Appeals Court, for Failure to State a Claim
23-78 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims on preclusive grounds despite the dismissal being based on pleading deficiencies …
23-5009 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete
22-1188 Douglas K. Smith v. Eric Terry Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellant-brief appellate-procedure bankruptcy circuit-court civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal extension-of-time judicial-discretion procedural-dismissal Whether the Circuit Court's March 8, 2023 denial of a second motion for thirty-day extension of time to file appellant brief, and resultant dismissal …
22-5056 Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing Whether the respondent properly sought publicity when dismissed without a full record, although requested, and whether the respondent's right to discl…
21-8280 James Michael Forney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process electronic-dockets federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-notice procedural-dismissal rule-4 section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases allows the district court to research online electronic dockets, take judicial notice, and di…
21-6981 In Re Benny David Gibson 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-review court-jurisdiction default-judgment dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-rights procedural-dismissal settlement standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case without prejudice
21-6633 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. White Bird Clinic Oregon 2021-12-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-payment due-process fundamental-error judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge poverty procedural-dismissal standing waiver Whether an appellate court can dismiss a case for lack of payment of an 'undertaking' on appeal when the undertaking was not allowed in the first plac…
21-6637 Kenan Ivery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-12-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure application-for-reopening due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions ohio-law procedural-dismissal state-court-of-appeals Is a petitioner denied due-process and equal-protection when the state-court-of-appeals procedurally-dismisses his application-for-reopening
21-6598 Glen Plourde v. Northern Light Acadia Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process procedural-dismissal standing state-actors torture-allegations Does the Fact that the Courts' Decision conflicts with Law mean that the Federal Courts have abused their discretion?
20-1602 Cornelius S. Berry, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response Waived adjournment amend-complaint case-adjournment circuit-court-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
20-7670 Faizah Dean v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-employment-action civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process labor-discrimination prima-facie-case procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Question not identified
20-7569 Deidre M. Hunt v. Florida Florida 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-claim post-conviction procedural-dismissal standing state-court substantive-validity Whether an indigent, pro se state prisoner is entitled to a liberal construction of state post-conviction claim premises on inadvertent misapplication…
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons Did the Fifth Circuit fail to follow its own law and that of other circuits when it dismissed Mr. McAfee's appeal alleging ineffective assistance beca…
20-170 Karen Chongah Han v. Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-discretion federal-courts judicial-estoppel legal-standing procedural-dismissal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be applied to defeat subject matter jurisdiction
19-8870 Daniel Vallejo Recio v. Rudy Vasquez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process evidence legal-relief procedural-dismissal standing witness witness-evidence Why was the claim dismissed?
19-7938 In Re Aretha Townsend 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-review government-officials judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge procedural-dismissal standing writ-of-certiorari Whether District Judge May erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint as frivolous
19-7357 Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing Whether the USDC-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice Petitioner's § 1982 Complaint aft…
19-867 Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal Whether Section 1997e(a) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act mandates dismissal of unexhausted claims or allows a prisoner to cure failure to exhaust …
19-7177 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen…
19-6622 Helene Tonique Williams v. Toni Preckwinkle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-discretion patent procedural-dismissal standing state-court-procedure takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the case against Pliner Porgue A Mhams, et al.
19-425 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis leave-to-amend notice notice-requirement pleading-standards procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation What is the meaning of 28-U.S.C.-Section-1915-(e)-(2)-(b)-(ii)
19-5945 Timothy Eugene Sampson v. Cathy M. Garrett, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review pleading-standards procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim under the heightened Twombly/Iqbal pleading sta…
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?
18-8170 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
18-639 Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
18-6125 Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights consideration constitutional-violation due-process factual-allegations federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleadings procedural-dismissal scheuer-v-rhodes Twombly-Iqbal Whether a court can rely on material outside the pleadings when ruling on a motion to dismiss
18-385 Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC District of Columbia 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa Whether the lower courts disregarded this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeated th…
18-31 Joel Beck v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-claims mortgage motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-plaintiff procedural-dismissal rule-12(b)(6) standing state-law supreme-court-precedent Whether a pro se plaintiff's pleading of plausible state law claims, including an allegation that would stop a pending foreclosure, is subject to dism…