procedural-requirements

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6628 Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Summit County, et al. Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending IFP administrative-law custody-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-requirements 1. Whether a magistrate's issuance of a dispositive custody and support order—adopted the same day by an administrative judge without a hearing—violat…
24-762 Gary Pisner v. Robert McCarthy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review opinion-explanation procedural-requirements right-of-appeal Is there a minimum amount of explanation in an appellate opinion necessary to meet due process requirements, to verify that an appellate court has act…
23-1370 David Dunlap v. JetBlue Airways Corporation, et al. New York 2024-07-02 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-requirements right-to-counsel workers-compensation Is due process of law violated by refusal to hear administrative appeal due to omission in information block?
23-6336 Javier Garibay Mendoza, aka Javier Garibay Mendoza-Romero, aka Jose Mendoza-Romero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-obligations procedural-requirements sentencing-guidelines upward-variance When a court varies upward from the Guidelines, can the court fulfill its procedural obligations without explaining its disagreements with the Guideli…
23-507 Rita C. Simpson-Vlach, et vir, on Behalf of A. S. and M. S., et al. v. Michigan Department of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing disability-rights due-process education educational-access idea idea-compliance procedural-requirements remote-learning standing Did the Petitioners allege an injury-in-fact sufficient to confer standing?
23-432 Oman Fasteners, LLC v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied chevron-deference delegation-of-power judicial-deference national-security presidential-tariffs procedural-requirements statutory-interpretation tariffs trade-expansion-act Must a federal court defer to the President's interpretation of the Trade Expansion Act's procedural requirements for imposing tariffs unless the Pres…
23-5818 Eduardo Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relief and…
22-7775 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
22-1141 Gary Pisner v. Marla Rubinstein, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied civil-procedure cross-jurisdictional-preclusion defamation defamation-privilege documentary-evidence evidence forum-non-conveniens judicial-notice litigation-privilege procedural-requirements Whether a party can take judicial notice of documents without identifying the purpose, material to be recognized, and grounds under Fed. R. Evid. 201(…
21-1513 Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III Fourth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an applicable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an exemption under said statute?
21-6926 Willie Wilcher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the Lower Courts had jurisdiction to decide the case based on Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 814 (2019), and the government never proved …
21-680 Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response Waived consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires landlords to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the re…
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
21-5277 Samuel Eaddy v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge disabilities due-process effective-counsel jurisdictional-time-limits mental-health mental-health-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-requirements Are the jurisdictional time limits imposed by Pennsylvania's Post-Conviction Relief Act unconstitutional as applied to individuals with severe brain a…
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements CERTIORARI IS APPROPRIATE WHERE THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE QUESTIONS…
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review May a federal court substitute its own reasons for denying a habeas petition when the state court's reasons were legally in error?
20-7784 Bryan Keith Goins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's sentence was unconstitutional
20-7281 Michael J. Wright v. Mario Cardenas, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-a-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-requirements rule-interpretation summary-judgment Proper-Procedure-for-Defenses-under-Rule-12
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 …
19-8796 Gary Daniel Rodgers v. R. McIntyre, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process evidence legal-equivalence motion motion-to-release notice-of-appeal procedural-requirements Whether Petitioner's timely filed 'Motion and Order to Release Evidence' satisfies the requirements as a functional equivalent of a Notice of Appeal
19-1342 Edward Mulcahy v. Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority Colorado 2020-06-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process expedited-procedure housing-authority procedural-due-process procedural-requirements property-rights service-of-process summary-judgment Did the District Court violate Mulcahy's constitutional rights by denying his motion to vacate the underlying judgment for procedural due process viol…
19-8143 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. Brevard County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP ad-valorem-tax civil-rights constitutional-challenge discovery discovery-rights due-process procedural-requirements property-rights quiet-title standing tax tax-authority Whether appellees have authority without a statute law by Congress to impose tax for private household goods and personal effects that are non-commerc…
19-972 Christopher Edward McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split disability-rights education-law individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review non-IDEA-claims procedural-requirements relief-not-available-under-IDEA standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires administrative exhaustion for non-IDEA claims seeking relief not available und…
19-7187 Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to raise certain evidentiary clai…
19-7197 Darryl William Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver Whether the district court had jurisdictional venue to accept the petitioner's plea agreement and sentence when the requirements of Federal Rules of C…
19-802 David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing Is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on 'information and belief' sufficient to plead diversity of citizenship?
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing When a defendant meets the requirements for issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA), is he then entitled to issuance of the certificate?
19-6161 John Connolly v. Florida Florida 2019-10-04 Denied IFP adjudication civil-procedure due-process federal-claim judicial-reasoning procedural-requirements reasons state-court Whether the due process clause requires a state court adjudicating a federal claim to set forth the reasons for its adjudication?
19-5960 Ben W. Bane v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavits breach-of-duty civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner federal-tort-claims-act judicial-enforcement medical-negligence prisoner-rights procedural-requirements standing state-law state-law-preemption Whether a Federal District Court and the Appellant Court can enforce a Local State Law requiring affidavits for a federal prisoner's Federal Tort Clai…
18-5689 George Bridgette v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-requirements right-to-counsel substitute-counsel Whether the district court violated petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to appoint substitute counsel to continue representing him in the ha…
18-5475 Johnaton Sampson George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-eligibility johnson-v-united-states procedural-eligibility procedural-requirements residual-clause substantive-eligibility substantive-requirements Whether courts should look to the factual record, the law at the time of sentencing, the law as it currently stands, or a combination of these factors…