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25A910 Sara Boysen, et al. v. PeaceHealth, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-12 Application certiorari due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Whether the lower court's denial of an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari constitutes an abuse of discretion or violates du…
25-6735 May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-procedure default-judgment judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct procedural-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals judges violated judicial conduct rules by disobeying procedural rules in May Chen's multiple petitions
25-6695 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP appellate-procedure en-banc-review judicial-review mandate-issuance notice-requirements procedural-rules Whether a court of appeals violates Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 40 and 41 when it issues a mandate after granting a motion to correct a petit…
25-6559 Charles Kafeiti v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-delay procedural-rules Whether a district court's 13-month unexplained silence on liberty-related motions constitutes court-induced prejudice warranting equitable tolling un…
25A695 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-15 Application certiorari eighth-circuit labor-union procedural-rules supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a public sector labor union's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the standard of good cause under Suprem…
25A667 Nicole Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper Publishing Company, LLC District of Columbia 2025-12-08 Application certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules
25-657 Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner's appeal, constituted such a substantial departure from th…
25A664 Jeanie Reese v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. California 2025-12-05 Application court-document extension-request filing-deadline pro-se procedural-rules timely-submission Whether a pro se litigant's self-filed document meets the legal standard for timely filing under federal court procedural rules
25-6262 Stevie Wyre v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending IFP civil-procedure complaint-dismissal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules Did the Courts abuse their discretion in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint through various procedural rulings that allegedly violated constitutiona…
25A543 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access judicial-procedure pleading-requirements procedural-rules Whether a state court's procedural rules can impose heightened pleading requirements that potentially infringe on a petitioner's constitutional right …
25-102 Jayne Swinford v. Officer Joshua Santos, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process jury-trial procedural-rules qualified-immunity seventh-amendment Whether the lower courts violated the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by dismissing Petitio…
24-1297 Royal Merchant Holdings, LLC v. The Ferraro Law Firm, P.A., et al. Florida 2025-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitration due-process federal-arbitration-act judicial-proceedings pleading-standard procedural-rules Whether a claim in arbitration must be asserted in a pleading at the outset of the case and whether the standard for procedural due process in arbitra…
24-7169 Glen Edward Rogers v. Florida Florida 2025-05-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection post-conviction procedural-rules Whether Florida's successive pleading requirements under Rule 3.851(d) violate a capital defendant's due process rights in a post-warrant context and …
24A1082 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process filing-fees judicial-review pro-se procedural-rules Whether a pro se litigant's failure to pay filing fees and comply with procedural rules constitutes an unconstitutional deprivation of access to court…
24-6498 In Re Thomas Sawyer 2025-02-07 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court filing-fee judicial-review mandamus-relief procedural-rules Whether the 7th Circuit improperly denied a second appellate filing fee and mandamus relief for a petitioner seeking to challenge a lower court's ruli…
24-830 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Response Waived article-1-section-10 constitutional-issue due-process procedural-rules summons-deadline void-judgment Whether a court can issue a stay order to change a summons response deadline under Article 1 Section 10 Clause 1 or due process of law, and whether a …
24-665 John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response Waived due-process judicial-violations procedural-rules rule-60d summary-dismissal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit and district court deprived the petitioner of due process by summarily dismissing his case and improperly applying procedura…
24-6108 Sixto Jorge Diaz-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment procedural-rules sixth-amendment Whether an appellate court violates due process by dismissing an appeal based solely on procedural deficiencies without addressing substantial constit…
24A560 Stephanie Mykonos v. Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, et al. District of Columbia 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete case-management circuit-court-review jurisdictional-challenge pro-se procedural-rules time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to district court and circuit court rules regarding case management and time extensions constitute a…
24-6070 David C. Lettieri v. James Quinn Auricchio Second Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied IFP court-filing imminent-danger jurisdictional-threshold pro-se-litigation procedural-rules statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) applies to government and private party litigation and how strikes are counted in such proceedings
24-5965 David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice administrative-law court-filing judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules Whether a judge can improperly restrict court filings and impede access to judicial process
24-5925 Francis Yomi v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tenth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-dispute judicial-misconduct motion-to-stay procedural-rules protective-order sanctions-motion Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's case and denying multiple motions for procedural and medical reasons
24-5816 Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park Florida 2024-10-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules Whether the Florida Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by entering an order of dismissal before the time prescribed …
24-5779 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-10-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-discretion error-waiver legal-interpretation procedural-rules rule-of-law Whether the Commonwealth Court abused its discretion by applying Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) to conclude waiver of error, conflicting with Pa.R.A.P. 1925 and pro…
24-5728 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Denied IFP appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court final-judgment post-conviction procedural-rules Whether the trial judge and state's attorney improperly created an impediment to a timely post-conviction application appeal
24-5731 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation extraordinary-writ forum-transfer judicial-misconduct legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules Why have judges of the Western District of Louisiana been practicing law improperly and violating constitutional rights through procedural rules?
24-5732 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation forum-transfer judicial-misconduct procedural-rules substantive-law writ-of-prohibition Whether judges in the Western District of Louisiana have improperly practiced law and violated plaintiff's substantive rights through procedural rules
24A320 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction procedural-rules Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied federal habeas corpus procedural rules in reviewing a state criminal defendant's post-conviction claims
24-5228 Thomas Waters v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process amendment civil-litigation civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Question not identified
24-94 SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Third Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-1127 11-usc-1144 attorney-malpractice bankruptcy-plan bankruptcy-reorganization-plan chapter-11 informed-consent malpractice-claims procedural-rules third-party-release Whether a non-consensual third-party release of debtors' attorneys for malpractice claims is enforceable when included in a confirmed Chapter 11 plan …
24-5137 Gerardo Ogaz v. Texas Texas 2024-07-25 Denied IFP anders-v-california appeal-process case-remand civil-procedure court-procedure due-process frivolous-appeal judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rules remand standing Did the Court err Concluding at Frivolous was the aPpeal in accordance wilh Anders ¥. California 386 U.S, #38 C96) When it Was oresented yout a mirror…
24-42 Scott Meide v. Pulse Evolution Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-assignment due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing unbiased-judiciary Has F.R.Civ. P. been abrogated by judicial fiat?
24A21 H.C. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete equitable-tolling filing-deadline medical-disability pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant's physical disability and medical challenges can constitute good cause for equitable tolling of procedural filing deadlines …
23-7755 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-18 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court due-process due-process,civil-procedure,post-conviction,appeal final-judgment impediment post-conviction post-conviction-procedure procedural-rules Whether the trial judge and state's attorney unreasonably created an impediment to the timely submission of a post-conviction application, contrary to…
23-7596 Andre Tayson Boone v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-analysis due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions time-extension Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal of the district court's denial of their motion for an extension of time to file a notic…
23A981 Alberta Rose Jones v. Donald David Jones Oklahoma 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure jurisdictional-timeliness motion-to-strike procedural-rules supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a state supreme court can dismiss a petition for writ of certiorari as untimely under procedural rules without addressing the underlying merit…
23-7310 In Re Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. 2024-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying the petitioners' request for rehearing en banc
23-6984 Chikezie Ottah v. Verifone System Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-interpretation patent-eligibility patent-law procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the question of law presented in the petition for writ of certiorari should be reviewed
23-6946 Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. Royce C. Lamberth, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions Whether the DCCA correctly denied the petition for writ of certiorari
23-6826 Clifford D. Jackson v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP 60b6-motion attachments district-court-discretion dixon-v-baker habeas-corpus motion-recharacterization procedural-rules rhine-v-weber rhines-stay second-or-successive-petition slack-v-mcdaniels Question not identified
23-6658 Ricky Johnson, aka Rodney Knuckles v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review ohio-supreme-court post-conviction procedural-rules revocation-hearing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a revocation hearing under Morrissey v. Brewer and Gagnon v. Scarpelli, and the right to effective assi…
23-6625 Wayne Frazer v. Bakery & Drivers Local 550, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-review procedural-rules public-records standing supreme-court writ Whether the summary plea descriptor that police mailed to the petitioner was false
23A694 Jabari J. Johnson v. Carolyn Hansen Tenth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure failure-to-prosecute pro-se procedural-rules tenth-circuit Whether a pro se litigant's failure to prosecute an appeal constitutes grounds for dismissal under Tenth Circuit procedural rules
23A631 Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process judicial-discretion petition-filing procedural-rules time-extension Whether the lower court's denial of an extension to file a petition for a writ of certiorari constitutes an abuse of discretion or violates due proces…
23A556 Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under the Court's procedural rules
23-6228 Barbara Burks Williams v. Fred Lane, et al. Alabama 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alabama civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction default-judgment due-process failure-to-appear legal-notice procedural-rules standing takings Why wasn't the Due Process of the law applied?
23-576 Sohail M. Abdulla v. Southern Bank Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing Is the right to due process being violated for pro se litigants?
23-559 Adekunle C. Omoyosi v. Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-timeliness civil-procedure court-discretion due-process eeoc federal-courts judicial-exception legal-procedure procedural-rules standing timeliness Whether, or under what circumstances, may the court excuse untimeliness of appeal
23A437 William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete extension-request federal-court habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-rules Whether a federal district court properly denied a pro se prisoner's request for a 30-day extension to file a habeas corpus petition under federal pro…
23-6007 Daniel A. Rocha v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance procedural-rules time-limitations Does Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 358 (1968), and its progeny, require a state court to advise an indigent defendant of the procedural rules and ti…
23A407 Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2023-11-06 Presumed Complete certiorari counsel-availability federal-courts procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Whether federal courts may grant extensions of time to file petitions for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period when counsel faces scheduling c…
23A401 R. Allen Stanford v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete certiorari extraordinary-relief pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Whether a pro se petitioner's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition constitutes a legally cognizable claim for extraordinary …
23A381 Terrence Thomas v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time prisoner pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court Whether a pro se prisoner's application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court procedural ru…
23-5716 Jimmy Zavala v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10(e) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition motion-to-correct procedural-rules rule-10e successive-appeal When should the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e) be recharacterized as a successive appeal?
23-356 Donnie T. A. M. Kern v. Virginia Virginia 2023-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-order due-process oral-argument procedural-rules property-rights standing state-court-rules virginia-supreme-court Whether the Petitioner violated an order by the Virginia Supreme Court the causation for the Virginia Supreme Court to deny the Petition
23-303 Faith Townsend v. Rockwell Automation, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-opportunity fraud-on-court judge-misconduct judicial-misconduct procedural-rules res-judicata vacatur wage-discrimination Res-Judicata-Application
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia impeded the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia and/or the Supreme Court of the United St…
23-5480 Jesus C. More v. Florida Florida 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure competency-hearing due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar procedural-rules remedies separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
23-5361 Andrew Slabon v. Angelo R. Sanchez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial procedural-rules seventh-amendment standing state-action trial-by-jury Whether the Seventh Amendment's fundamental right to a trial by jury is violated when meritorious complaints are dismissed based on monetary policies …
23-5352 Cassandra McGuire v. Highmark Holdings, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-rules stare-decisis summary-judgment Did the courts properly apply default judgment rules when the defendant failed to respond in a timely manner?
23-5252 Bruce Lamont Fuller v. California California 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-justice administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-rules standing Question not identified
23-5142 Joseph Counts v. Maine First Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules standing stare-decisis Where the proper way for lower courts to handle the penumbra of filings
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?
22-7578 In Re Carlos A. Seino 2023-05-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate jurisdictional-challenge massachusetts-law procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment in the context of a warrantless s…
22-7236 Louis Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2023-04-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment espinosa-v-florida fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process procedural-rules sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Gaskin's execution violates the US Constitution due to a malfunctioned process
22-7164 Paul A. Bernard v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-review opposing-parties procedural-rules standing state-procedure substantive-rights Whether the State of Michigan's complete failure to ensure judicial impartiality, as evidenced by the lack of procedure to address allegations of judi…
22-7072 Montoyya Sims v. Fox Ridge Apartments Michigan 2023-03-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-transfer court-of-claims due-process judicial-review jurisdiction michigan-law procedural-rules removal standing supreme-court-procedure transfer Whether the United States Supreme Court should vacate the Michigan Supreme Court's order and transfer the individual claim to the Michigan Court of Cl…
22-6996 Candace Searcy v. Orchard National Title Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-rights default-judgment discrimination due-process housing housing-discrimination human-rights procedural-rules race-discrimination texas-rules-of-civil-procedure Why am I being denied housing because of my race being an African American?
22-6786 Cleveland Leroy Coaxum, Jr. v. Jeffrey Snoddy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-misconduct Did the courts make an error on Ruling Petitioner's Habeas Corpus, as un-timely filed petition despite it being filed on time in the lower courts?
22-758 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-immunity procedural-rules record record-review standing u.r.a.p-11 Whether the Court of Appeals allowing materials not on the record conflicts with the requirements of U.R.A.P 11?
22-5941 Albert L. Watson v. Stu Sherman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-hearing ninth-circuit penal-code procedural-rules reasoned-opinion sixth-amendment state-law state-penal-code Was the district court's use of state penal code justifying violation of sixth amendment correct
22-5885 Christopher Surles v. Warden, Limestone Correctional Facility, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-government federal-procedure notice-of-appeal procedural-rules standing time-limitation time-limits united-states-agency Whether the time limit for filing a notice of appeal is extended when the United States or an agency of the United States is a party?
22-5805 Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-structural-error due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
22-5758 Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2022-10-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings Does the Louisiana statute banning the sale of petrol-based motor vehicles violate the dormant Commerce Clause?
22-5628 In Re Tony Walker 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation Whether the January 23, 2014 standing blanket order of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and 28 U.S.C. §1915(e)…
22-169 Jay Lin, et ux. v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-ethics procedural-rules recusal Whether the New Jersey District Court judge erred in circumventing his recusal by suspending FRCP R. 7.1
22-171 Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., dba Hospital Hima San Pablo Caguas and Hospital Hima San Pablo Fajardo, v. Unión General de Trabajadores Puerto Rico 2022-08-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-determination administrative-determinations appellate-rules arbitration-awards court-review due-process procedural-due-process procedural-rules retroactive-application retroactivity review-procedures Whether the Puerto Rico Supreme Court erred and violated the presumption against retroactivity and procedural due process
22-102 John Doe, et al. v. Airbnb, Inc. Florida 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement clear-and-unmistakable clear-and-unmistakable-evidence contract-interpretation dispute-resolution first-options-v-kaplan presumption procedural-rules Whether the provision in an arbitration agreement that the arbitration will be administered under a particular set of procedural rules, which give the…
21-8252 Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was filed untimely
21-7993 Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing Whether the lower courts violated due process, exceeded their jurisdiction, and failed to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
21-1456 Christy Poon-Atkins v. Sammy M. Sappington, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process evidence evidence-omission jury-trial procedural-rules standing Should the Defendants' documented admissions to speeding be reviewed by a jury, per Constitution Amendment VII, and due process?
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?
21-7719 Gary Wall v. Jeffrey Kiser, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process executive-detention habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rules retroactivity teague-nonretroactivity teague-v-lane Does the Fourth Circuit's holding that new procedural rules cannot apply to any federal habeas proceeding, even where federal habeas is a petitioner's…
21-7596 Janai Meeks v. Butte County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions detention due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdictional-issues juvenile-justice legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions Whether the juvenile court erred in ordering the placement of the petitioner in a juvenile detention facility without due process
21-1320 Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications
21-1299 Nicholas D. Scoyni v. Daniel R. Salvador, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-recusal procedural-rules recuse service-mark service-marks takings-clause trademarks Does the district court have the right to adjudicate an intellectual-property case without addressing parties' pleas, disregarding legal precedence of…
21-7467 Patrick Muraca v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-rights court-deadlines due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration legal-access procedural-rules right-to-counsel speedy-trial Does an incarcerated individual have the timely and speedy right to an attorney before important court decisions are made, such as missing a deadline …
21-1096 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied appeal-rights appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-order due-process final-order judicial-error procedural-rules standing Whether the Courts Erred by Misstating Alice's Appeal
21-6984 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Oregon Oregon 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fraud judgment judgment-standard legal-appealability motion-dismissal procedural-rules standing Question not identified
21-6521 Jamar Allen v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-provisions court-filing due-process hallucinogenic-drug judicial-process legal-document procedural-rules reasons-for-granting-writ scotus-petition victim-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause requires the burden of proof to be met if the only evidence justifying the petitioner as the shooter is the victim's te…
21-6509 Adesijuola Ogunjobi v. United Nations, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure complaint-dismissal covid-19-class-action district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-immunity merit-of-complaint procedural-rules standing subject-matter summons-service Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that the district court has the absolute authority to dismiss a valid complaint on its own without allowin…
21-6084 Jacquelyne Jones v. Nicole Jobe Kansas 2021-10-27 Denied IFP canon-of-judicial-ethics civil-rights court-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding judicial-canon judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-rules state-courts supreme-court-precedent Did the Kansas Supreme Court fail to follow the law and rules of the judiciary in condoning a procedure of one of its state courts in violation of Kan…
21-5988 Stephen B. Jones, Sr. v. Maryland Maryland 2021-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-reasoning procedural-rules speedy-trial statutory-provisions Did the trial court err?
21-5773 Alex Baah v. AT&T Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion alternative-dispute-resolution civil-procedure district-court district-court-discretion motion-for-reconsideration ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review procedural-rules reconsideration timely-response untimely-response Did the Ninth Circuit Court and the District Court overlook a clear procedural rule?
21-409 Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules
21-5645 In Re Donald Mack 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules?
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va…
21-173 Marilyn Tillman-Conerly v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived agency-closure alternative-service civil-procedure covid-19 due-process good-cause judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-rules service-of-process Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion
21-21 Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation Due-process-violation
20-8446 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules retrial united-states-law Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars the retrial of the petitioner after the trial court's erroneous dismissal of the charge…
20-1701 Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer Whether 28 U.S.C. §1631 requires a court to transfer a case when it finds a lack of jurisdiction and it is in the interest of justice to do so
20-8225 John Anderson v. The University of Iowa, et al. Iowa 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure covid-impact disability due-process first-amendment notice-of-appeal procedural-rules tolling-statutes Is a Notice of Appeal, although with the trial court's designation, but filed with the Appellate Court automatic grounds for dismissal?
20-7930 Oscar Smith v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-05-05 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death-sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi…
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure Are Ferecal Couels Allowed fo Tatecfees with pendine Stete Couet PROCEEDINGS
20-7542 Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-23 Denied IFP court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing Whether the petitioner's observation of 'by' char' from outside a residential building violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sea…
20-7302 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Rentgrow, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-court jurisdiction legal-claim procedural-rules standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint against the defendant(s) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-6919 Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction
20-695 Derek Piersing v. Domino’s Pizza Franchising LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1) aaa-rules arbitrability circuit-court delegation-doctrine employment-agreement first-options procedural-rules state-court Whether providing that a particular set of rules will govern arbitration proceedings, without more, is 'clear and unmistakable evidence' of the partie…
20-5856 Alimamy Barrie v. Matthew M. Robinson Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules strickland-v-washington Whether an Omission by habeas Counsel to include a Supporting fact that Appellate Counsel was Ineffective
20-5675 Robert Trevino v. E. Dotson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas intentional-oversight judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing supreme-court Did the 14th Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory p…
20-5529 Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied IFP aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred in denying a motion to amend a petition under the AEDPA, as the Eleventh Circuit has required that a motion to amen…
20-5500 Valentin Spataru v. Pedro Antonio Suarez, et al. Florida 2020-08-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se-litigation procedural-rules professional-responsibility standing Whether Florida judges may disregard my filings and prior cases, and may not exercise the standard of care requested by law and expected from professi…
20-5258 Nikole Marie Hunter v. Government Employees Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure evidence evidence-interpretation expert-witness judicial-function procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton Whether the District Court failed to review evidence and ignored expert witness testimony in conflict with Supreme Court precedent on summary judgment…
20-5204 Lyudmila Lerner v. Stanley Cowen California 2020-07-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony expert-witness fact-witness medical-testimony procedural-rules treating-physician witness-designation Whether a treating physician can testify as a fact witness absent an expert designation
19-8894 Michael Halliburton v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics party-standing procedural-rights procedural-rules professional-responsibility substantive-rights Should the determinations of the Board of Judicial Conduct - responsible by statute and by the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules for maintaining the integ…
19-8811 Michael Lee Crane v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied IFP citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-citizen constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules standing statutory-citizen Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Crane's habeas corpus petition
19-8734 In Re Ren Y. Deng 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court genuine-issue jurisdictional-review material-fact material-facts procedural-rule procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the district court deviation from procedural rule while there was overwhelming genuine issue of material fact disputed in the record granting the …
19-8408 Stanley West McPherson v. Tompkins Trust Company, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error motion-to-dismiss pretrial-procedures procedural-rules scheduling-conference standing summary-judgment Whether the United States Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles erred and violated in failure and refuse to give petitioner a scheduled conference
19-8159 Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursued ac…
19-8102 In Re Marquise White 2020-03-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights clerk-error court-access court-clerk-error district-court-power due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules state-statutory-rules statutory-rules Does a district court have the power to deny a Petitioner access to the court based on any such state statutory rules of evidence or even procedural r…
19-6829 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal due-process,civil-rights,access-to-court,federal-procedure,recusal,civil-rico
19-6387 Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure default default-judgment pleading procedural-rules summary-judgment supervisory-power waiver-of-rights writ writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether a party who fails to plead or otherwise defend within the time allowed by Rule, waive their rights on all claims
19-6323 Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony Whether a decision affirming exclusion of evidence can be correct without addressing the unrefuted assertion that it was excluded on plainly erroneous…
19-164 David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners
19-5398 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure internal-operating-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-claims local-rules pendent-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Will the Court provide for questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedure…
19-5374 Benson Coriolant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit…
19-5321 John R. Collins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-innocence mcquiggin-exception mcquiggin-v-perkins miller-el-v-cockrell no-trial-no-guilty-plea presumption-of-innocence procedural-rules Does the 'actual innocence' exception/gateway in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013) require new evidence of innocence when there has never been…
18A1290 Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB New Jersey 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights extension-of-time foreclosure judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-rules Whether a pro se litigant's medical conditions and procedural challenges warrant judicial leniency in reviewing a state court foreclosure judgment
18-9489 Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-process legal-claims procedural-rules remand standing supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari Why the Honorable United States District Court ordered the case closed without granting a 30-day order to amend the complaint
18-1450 Horacio Sequeira v. Gate Safe, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response Waived ada-amendments-act-2008 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process eeoc employment employment-discrimination false-statement medical-restrictions procedural-rules scheduling-order summary-judgment Whether a request to amend a complaint and to modify a scheduling order should be granted whenever a plaintiff complies with Fed. R. Civ. P.15 (c) (1)…
18-9162 Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-caption civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements legal-document petition-formatting procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions supreme-court Whether the cappelare Cound erred by not aptly ine
18-9116 Jesus Cotto v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition compliance-exception due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-discretion federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction procedural-default procedural-rules state-court-determination state-court-rules state-courts Whether Federal Courts May Excuse A Petitioner's Failure To Comply With The State Court's Procedural Rules, Notwithstanding The State Court's Determin…
18-1353 Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah should continue until a district court's denial of class…
18-8805 In Re Andre Rene Scott 2019-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment Whether the ruling in Marbury v. Madison still stands
18-1284 Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. North Carolina 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.…
18-8724 In Re Archie Cabello 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law due-process judicial-discretion legal-ethics motions pleadings procedural-rules right-to-counsel rule-11 self-representation Does a trial judge have a duty to protect a defendant's right to counsel of choice?
18-8178 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. David Liebel, et al. Indiana 2019-02-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure exceptions federal-court federal-removal judicial-discretion jurisdiction multi-defendant procedural-rules removal state-court unrelated-claims Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 18 allows a case with unrelated claims to be removed from state court to federal court, and, if so, the except…
18-7963 Fredmun Wayne Reynolds v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights procedural-rules rules-of-civil-procedure state-prisoner statute statute-interpretation timeliness Does a district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's habeas petition under Habeas Rule 4 for lack of timeliness violate statute, the Rules of Civil…
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error
18-7930 Richard S. Button v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP filing-date habeas-corpus legal-interpretation motion-amendment postconviction-relief procedural-rules relation-back standard-of-review state-law timeliness Do the procedural rules in effect at time of filing govern whether an application for state postconviction relief is properly filed?
18-947 Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-timeliness appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion in-camera-review judicial-misconduct misconduct procedural-rules Whether if a member of the Court of Appeals sends a party a 'racist' mailing of a court initiated letter, whether intentional or unintentional, does a…
18-7415 Anthony James Scott v. California California 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law alcohol-regulation civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation local-ordinance preemption procedural-rules state-constitution statutory-provisions transportation-of-alcohol Whether an officer could have reasonably entertained a good faith belief that a local ordinance prohibiting the transportation of alcohol in public wa…
18-7354 Derrick L. Johnson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-magistrate-act magistrate-judge notice procedural-rules service service-of-process sixth-circuit supervisory-power Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to exercise its supervisory power to establish a rule that precludes a United States District Magist…
18-7040 Adam L. Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-codes court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing state-codes state-courts Whether state courts have concurrent jurisdiction with federal courts, and whether state court judges can facilitate procedures to address violations …
18-6959 Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure Whether arbitrary government intrusion violates the Fourth Amendment by means of unlawful search and seizure without probable cause
18-713 Stuart Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby drawing-inferences-in-favor-of-nonmovant. genuine-issue-of-material-fact procedural-rules tolan-v-cotton adickes-v-s-h-kress-co anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure due-process genuine-issue-of-fact inference-drawing nonmovant-evidence procedural-rules summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton Whether the U.S.A.'s failure to 'respond' and the Magistrate Judge's failure to 'deem admitted' conflict with Supreme Court precedent
18-6477 Delmer M. Ackels v. Randy M. Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied IFP answer civil-procedure court-of-appeals default-judgment excuse excuses jurisdiction procedural-rules timeliness timely-filing Whether the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to deny a default judgment when the defendant was untimely with its Answer without an excuse
18-6500 In Re Sandra Rumanek 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware usurp this Court's judicial power in violation of FRCP rules?
18-6372 Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was withou…
18-427 Masoud Bamdad v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-policy controlled-substances court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure defective-indictment due-process fed.r.civ.p.-54(b) final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings interstate-commerce jurisdiction medical-practice procedural-rules Whether a habeas court must adjudicate all claims of a habeas petitioner before making a final judgment and closing the case, or else the judgment is …
18-5752 Randall B. Causey v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4(a)(5) appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure incapacitation judicial-discretion legal-tolling medical-condition medical-incapacity procedural-rules standing Whether Equitable Tolling applies to Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) when the Petitioner was incapacitated due to a medical condition?
18-5471 Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness Does the Appellate Court need to follow rules? Or are they allowed to circumvent established procedure?
18-5134 Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find a violation of the petitioner's due process rights when the district court denied…
18-5140 M. P. F. v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to obtain trial transcripts to perfect an appeal
18-5141 Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas Texas 2018-07-05 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules Whether Mr. Frederiksen should continue to suffer prejudice and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction when the lower state cou…
23A1169 Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas Texas Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals judicial-process procedural-rules texas-law Whether the Texas Court of Appeals improperly applied procedural rules that effectively denied petitioners their constitutional right to meaningful ap…