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25-6506 John Wesley Patton v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Louisiana 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-rights district-court judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal Whether a Louisiana District Judge can be considered impartial when presiding over cases involving claims against himself and when district attorneys …
25-6443 Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee Connecticut 2025-12-30 Pending IFP appellate-review due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-defect recusal standing Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate ma…
25-360 J. P. v. J. N. New Jersey 2025-09-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights judicial-corruption judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal Did corruption within the NJ judiciary violate the petitioner's constitutional rights and foster impropriety in judicial proceedings?
25A243 C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance…
25-5402 Martin G. Plotkin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process judicial-bias levy-action recusal tax-court Whether the actions of Tax Court Judge Morrison and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals constituted judicial bias and deprivation of due process in a ta…
24-1231 Andrew Dowd v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process harmless-error judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-conduct recusal restitution Whether a district judge impermissibly blends judicial and prosecutorial roles by urging investigation and then presiding over the trial, whether an a…
24-6717 Allaquan Jackson, aka Khalif Jackson, aka Kailif Jackson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-03-07 Denied IFP alibi-witness due-process fair-trial judicial-bias recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial is violated by a trial judge with personal knowledge of an alibi witness who did not testify due to …
24-6696 James R. Turner, III v. Edward Rapp Second Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-protections due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion recusal Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying in forma pauperis status and dismissing an appeal without proper constitutional consideration
24-819 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-03 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau…
24-95 Jason Lou Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied 28-usc-2072 28-usc-455 appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct recusal supervisory-powers Should-the-United-States-Supreme-Court-impose-a-requirement-of-mandatory-disqualification-of-Chief-Judges-of-the-Courts-of-Appeals
23-1350 Robert Korman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2024-06-27 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process extrajudicial-evidence judicial-bias judicial-bias-and-prejudice judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics legal-procedure recusal Whether proof of a judge's commission of bias and prejudice against a litigant in a case alone mandates his immediate disqualification and reversal of…
23-1318 Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Holding Corporation, et al. California 2024-06-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process emotional-distress judicial-recusal recusal self-representation standing due-process-clause
23-7750 James Eric Moore v. Jason Koenigsfeld, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-misconduct due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-requirement mandate-recall recusal rule-60(b) civil-procedure
23-1266 Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. Texas 2024-06-04 Denied campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, violate the Fo…
23-7399 In Re Gilbert Martinez 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure due-process enlargement-of-time judicial-discretion recusal recusal-standard rule-60-relief social-security-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Circuit court abused its discretion
23-7377 Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-procedure local-court procedural-fairness recusal standing whether-a-biased-judge-must-recuse-themselves
23-7360 Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination Whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recusal of a judge prior to a final determination on the merits
23-7234 Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict Whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality when the judge allowed an AUSA who became a witness in the proceedi…
23-7137 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton Texas 2024-04-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal Can a state district judge be removed from a child-custody case for violation-of-due-process-clause, 14th-amendment, when the judge omits exception-28…
23-1072 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-02 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation Does §455(b)(3) require recusal when a federal judge is assigned to a case involving the same parties, same facts, and same issues as a case in which …
23-7032 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure petition-renaming recusal rule-60-b standing Was judge allowed to rename petition
23-1035 Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine conflicts-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-conduct judicial-disqualification mandamus recusal standing Whether the district judge should be disqualified from presiding over a case based on bias or prejudicial, financial interest, or other impermissible …
23-6980 Matthew Murphy v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error whether-this-court-should-grant-this-petition
23-851 John Doe v. Purdue University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review bias civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-adjudication due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias recusal recusal-standard standing Should this Court exercise its supervisory authority to preserve the appearance and fact of justice by requiring review now of a denial of recusal for…
23-816 In Re Shiva Akula 2024-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue Does district-court-judges have-to-disclose-financial-holdings
23-6513 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction recusal rule-11-sanctions standing Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a magistrate judge
23-744 Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church California 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal recusal right-to-appeal self-represented-litigant standing Should Due Process be afforded to self-represented litigant in civil case against Catholic Church?
23-6168 Samreen Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2023-12-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct petition-for-review public-trust recusal standing Did the Supreme Court of California deny petition of review, leaving an unresolved conflict and matter of public importance?
23-6137 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-recusal prejudice recusal three-judge-panel Did Respondents deny defendant-appellant's due-process rights by failing to provide a three-judge panel on appeal?
23-528 Michael S. Barth v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process intervention-rights judicial-access media-representation procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to intervene
23A395 Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete discretionary-review impartiality judicial-disqualification mandamus recusal statutory-standard Whether a federal district court judge must recuse himself under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) when a party alleges potential judicial bias or prejudice in a civ…
23-5651 Harry J. Williby v. Sergey Brin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 28-U.S.C-455(a) district-court due-process judge judicial-ethics recusal section-455 sua-sponte Does a District Court Judge violate a litigant's right to Due Process, under the 14th Amendment, when the District Court Judge rules on a recusal moti…
23-281 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo?
23-5592 Beau John Greene v. Arizona Arizona 2023-09-15 Denied IFP appellate-review arizona constitutional-bias death-penalty due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal prosecutorial-conflict recusal williams-v-pennsylvania Did the appellate court violate Greene's due process rights by creating an impermissible risk of actual bias by allowing Justice Montgomery to decide …
23-118 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action…
23-106 Allan Nowicki, et al. v. Crown Financial Corporation Pennsylvania 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal legal-procedure recusal standing void-judgment Are the judgments entered in this case void because they were obtained by a fraud upon the court?
23-5234 Cheryl Kristy Jenkins v. Mark Joseph Tengowski Pennsylvania 2023-07-28 Denied IFP child-custody civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct protective-orders recusal standing Is it a violation of the Constitution for a judge to evaluate their own judge recusal and if they do should the case be vacated?
23-5175 In Re Gregory Albert Darst 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-procedures appellate-dismissal civil-procedure docket-manipulation judicial-immunity mandamus procedural-due-process recusal standing Did Clerk Smith or staff attorney dismiss appeal 22-10918 without involvement of judicial officers?
22-7820 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality
22-1214 Mohsin Mazhar Syed v. Texas Texas 2023-06-15 Denied campaign-contributions caperton-precedent caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co constitutional-conflict due-process impartial-judge judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality recusal recusal-standards Whether the due process clause requires recusal of a judge who has received substantial campaign contributions from a party or the party's attorney in…
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge Did former Judge Henderson's secret extramarital affair create an unconstitutional potential for bias?
22-7607 Sensa Verogna v. Andrea K. Johnstone, et al. First Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extrajudicial-knowledge federal-judges judicial-immunity judicial-recusal recusal standing Should a judge recuse themselves having learned through their administrative duties, material facts deriving from an extrajudicial source?
22-1109 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal Has Irving Rounds, Jr. been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
22-7399 John Robert Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel recusal trial-court Whether a habeas applicant is denied a fair trial in a fair tribunal
22-7293 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. First Circuit 2023-04-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal Whether the First Circuit's refusal to undertake a de novo review with claims that pro se appellant did not develop his case for them to 'review' when…
22-949 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Diana Hagen, Justice, Supreme Court of Utah, et al. Utah 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forum human-trafficking judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity recusal sexual-harassment standing statute-of-limitations If Mr. Howell's mom knows the Court, is that a fair forum for Petitioner?
22-7078 Rick Lee Searcy v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b6-dismissal civil-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-evidence first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse recusal standing Question not identified
22-7040 Michael Lee Gordon v. Doe, Designation Sentence Computation Center Official, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-20 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-review bias civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure recusal standing statutory-interpretation witness Whether the district court erred in denying Appellant's motion for recusal of the district court judge based on the judge's bias as a witness in the i…
22-903 Jay Goodley v. Charles M. Greene Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-capacity judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-recusal recusal separation-of-powers Whether a judge can change the law while presiding over a case they were recused from
22-854 David Archer v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc., et al. Florida 2023-03-08 Denied civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct recusal standing Whether judges and court officers who contravened the law under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 are immune from 'conflict of interest or lack of impartiality'
22-782 Carol Pulliam v. University of Southern California California 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal standing takings Do state court trial judges, court of appeal justices and supreme court justices 'war against the (United States) Constitution' by denying state litig…
22-6550 Alla Zorikova v. Julie Pyle, et al. Nevada 2023-01-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure recusal standing whether-zorikova-was-denied-due-process-and-fair-trial
22-575 William S. Toppi v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-12-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias massachusetts-appeals-court-rule-23.0 plea-waiver procedural-due-process recusal waiver-of-rights Whether the sentencing judge and defense counsel were required to recuse themselves after exhibiting clear bias relating to Defendant's case
22-6254 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality-standard judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal media-bias media-coverage recusal Whether a criminal defendant's due process right to a fair trial is violated when numerous media reports raise reasonable questions about a district c…
22-6224 Ali Shahrokhi v. Kizzy J. S. Burrow Nevada 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias procedural-due-process recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial judge's refusal to recuse himself from presiding over the 3-day bench trial—while being an adverse party litigating against Shahrokhi— v…
22-449 Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. Washington 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal Whether judges must address judicial partiality claims
22-350 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2022-10-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief procedural-irregularities recusal recusal-issues standing Do the issues presented constitute exceptional circumstances warranting a Writ of Mandamus?
22-5778 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-06 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal property-rights recusal sanctions Should a judge be recused for bias and failure to provide due process?
22-5600 Quincetta Y. Cargill v. Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-bias appellate-review civil-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct motion-denial personal-jurisdiction recusal standing Whether the district court judge's failure to disclose and respond to the petitioner's affidavit of personal bias and prejudice under 28 U.S.C. §§ 144…
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
22-5348 Clarence Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge
22-5291 Barton Ray Gaines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists recusal rule-60b-motion standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether GAINES made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right
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
21-7952 Steven P. Grados v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-assignment magistrate-judge procedural-error recusal retaliation third-circuit-court-of-appeals Whether a trial judge can assign a non-consent magistrate judge to hear a 2255 motion involving the trial judge's own actions
21-1257 Brian K. Evans, as Administrator of the Estate of Helen Marie Bousquet v. Ronald A. Marvin, et al. Massachusetts 2022-03-16 Denied appearance-of-impropriety conflict-of-interest due-process interests-of-justice judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice recusal Was the judge's failure to disclose his wife's connection to the hospital appropriate?
21-7370 Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony Question not identified
21-1177 Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy Fourth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias recusal Was Debtor's fundamental right to due process violated by the Bankruptcy Court's bias and failure to recuse itself?
21-7193 Jose Yeyille v. Justin Cole Speigel Florida 2022-02-25 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics privileges-and-immunities recusal Whether a state trial court judge should be disqualified on Fourteenth Amendment due process, equal protection, and privileges and immunities grounds …
21-1109 Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due-process, whistleblower, recusal, administrative-law-judge, c…
21-1039 In Re Gregory Charles Kapordelis 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writ federal-courts mandamus recusal recusal-orders statutory-jurisdiction Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus
21-1026 Camille A. Walters v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation, et al. Wisconsin 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-ethics procedural-irregularity prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-requirement standing Was it illegal that the Wisconsin Supreme Court disregarded their own rules of internal operating procedures
21-6835 Roland Ma v. Gallery Belltown Condominium Association Washington 2022-01-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process homeowners-association judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge preliminary-injunction property-rights recusal standing Does the Homeowner Association have jurisdiction to eject a homeowner from his own home?
21-6805 Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment Whether the district court judge erred in not recusing himself
21-6630 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-455 appeal appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute guilty-plea judicial-recusal recusal waiver-of-rights Whether an unconditional guilty plea waives a federal criminal defendant's right to appeal a district court's failure to recuse under 28 U.S.C. § 455(…
21-866 Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation Whether the retroactive application of the severance of the government-debt exception in Barr v. AAPC violates the First Amendment by re-creating the …
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-6522 Mithun Banerjee v. Bank of America, N.A. Maryland 2021-12-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial judicial-corruption judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-recusal recusal Will the US Supreme Court provide a fair trial to the Plaintiff where the Circuit Court Judges have conflicts of interest?
21-833 David Louis Whitehead v. Traveler's Insurance Company, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-general circuit-court civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process injunctive-relief judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus-writ recusal standing Whether the Second Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case: appeal or writ of mandamus
21-753 Trina L. Janura v. John J. Janura, Jr. West Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct recusal Did the non-disclosure and non-recusal from either the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals both violate the petitioner's right…
21-6303 C. K. J. v. M. J. T. Pennsylvania 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights custody-proceedings due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal protective-orders recusal standing Is it a violation of the Constitution for a judge to evaluate their own judge recusal and if they do should the case be vacated?
21-714 Judy Morrow Wright, et vir v. Matthew G. Buyer, et al. Tennessee 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived appearance-of-bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-recusal recusal structural-error structural-right williams-precedent williams-v-pennsylvania Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court's Rule 10B unconstitutionally impedes Petitioners' structural right to an impartial judge
21-628 Ebenezer K. Howe, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process irs judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant recusal Do courts of appeal exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresented litigan…
21-6019 James Paul Arlotta v. His Holiness Pope Francis, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-19 Dismissed IFP appearances-of-impropriety bankruptcy-court civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-questions court-jurisdiction due-process establishment-clause judicial-proceedings legal-review recusal Whether the court will adhere to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in light of the apparent conflicts of interest and impropriety involv…
21-545 Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification recusal standing Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen…
21-498 James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
21-5884 Carina Conerly v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment frivolous in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion moot recusal standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
21-5623 Felix Roberts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-rehearing procedural-timeline recusal rehearing time-limits Whether the petitioner was denied due process by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its handling of the petitioner's appeal
21-5562 Richard C. Curran v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment case-reassignment due-process equal-protection government-interference judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal reassignment recusal Did President Judge William Harvey Wiest abuse his authority by recusing the entire Northumberland County Court of Common Pleas from hearing any of my…
21-5390 Jeanette S. R. Lipinski v. Yolanda Castaneda, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-administration due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-disability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal Judicial-misconduct
21-174 David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amended-complaint civil-procedure constitutional-rights fraud fraud-on-court judicial-conflict mandamus pecuniary-interest recusal rule-15 rule-15a standing whether-writ-of-mandamus-should-have-been-granted
21-5292 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-bias recusal summary-adjudication writ-proceeding Did the California Court of Appeal justices' failure to recuse themselves from deciding the appeal of the final judgment violate the Due Process Claus…
21-5296 Patrick C. Lynn v. Debra Lundry Tenth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-144 administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection physical-injury recusal reverse-error statutory-duty statutory-interpretation Did the 10th Circuit err in failing to hold its D.C.T. Judge Mclaren had a statutory duty under 28 USC § 144 to refer my affidavit of prejudice to ano…
21-93 Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. District of Columbia 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived 9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such …
21-5035 Ronald Pyles v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2021-07-08 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation civil-rights due-process ethical-standards ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal witness-testimony Question not identified
20-1816 David L. Whitehead v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-review recusal standing Whether the High Court has jurisdiction (Authority) to conduct judicial review
20-8423 Wilfredo Torres v. New York Legal Assistance Group, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights court-corruption due-process extrajudicial-activities judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct law-clinic pro-se-litigation recusal standing Whether Southern District of New York federal Judge Ronnie Abrams erred in starting a law clinic as an extrajudicial tool to help dismiss politically …
20-1666 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceeding civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-misconduct panel-member-disqualification procedural-fairness reciprocal-discipline recusal standing Whether the failure of a Panel Member to disclose conflicts of interests requires vacature of the Panel's decision
20-8178 Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal Whether a judge must be disqualified under 28 U.S.C. § 455 if the judge makes rulings more restrictive against one party than the other in comparable …
20-8170 Ronnie Ray Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standard due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea judicial-discretion recusal statute-of-limitations Whether the state's adjudication - or lack thereof - of Petitioner's Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) Motion, Tennessee Rules of Criminal…
20-7939 Cedric Jones, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerk-signature collateral-review court-order due-process judicial-procedure mandamus official-misconduct procedural-validity recusal standing Whether an appellate court clerk can sign a valid order without a judge's signature
20-7885 Maurice Cortez Proctor, Sr. v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus recusal standing Did the lower court err in denying MM. Pyoctr's petition for writ of mandamus to the district court, particularly the denial of its motion to recuse J…
20-1491 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-04-26 Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court Is being a stakeholder in an organization which solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment a…
20-1456 Walter Osborne v. Douglas E. Kellogg, et al. Florida 2021-04-16 Denied appellate-procedure change-of-venue civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-bias legal-review procedural-fairness recusal standing venue Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a change of venue due to bias and impartiality
20-1310 Genet McCann v. Douglas J. Wold, et al. Montana 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights collusion due-process estate-proceeding fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-rights recusal Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated
20-7514 Aimee Johnson v. St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias child-welfare civil-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-allegations ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias parental-rights recusal Can a judge preside over a case when he or she is biased? Or when they are friends with the parties involved? Can a person have a fair trial when they…
20-7251 Eric Lyle Williams v. Texas Texas 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial prosecutor-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal structural-error Does the participation of a conflicted and recused prosecutor in a death penalty trial violate due process?
20-6893 Patrick Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 Did the courts commit reversible error denying petitioner's COA, to resolve the factual disputes
20-954 Ohio, ex rel. Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. v. Maureen O’Connor, et al. Ohio 2021-01-14 Denied civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal panel-composition procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether a judicial panel's refusal to recuse themselves when they are named parties in the case constitutes a due-process-violation
20-6766 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing haines-v-kerner ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal pro-se-pleadings recusal section-2255 What rights under the Due Process clause do prisoners have during the course of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings?
20-6574 Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford Seventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct recusal standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint based on the alleged bias of the district judge
20-766 David Archer v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc., et al. Florida 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct oath-of-office recusal standing Can States Statues Judges or Attorneys violate that State's Constitution, the Federal Constitution and Federal laws, pertaining to conflict-of-interes…
20-6514 Jimmy Ray Weatherholt, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2020-12-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fair-trial judicial-conduct recusal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's suspension and ultimate disbarment during the pendency of criminal charges deprived the defendant of his constitutional right …
20-6504 Carolyn Barnes v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegated-authority due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-rights judicial-review motion-to-recuse recusal retaliation standard-of-review Whether it violates due process to ignore a Motion to Recuse and apply the wrong standard of review
20-6364 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing statutory-compliance Whether a case must proceed to final judgment with a judge who harbors actual bias against a litigant in order to obtain appellate review of the judge…
20-6119 In Re Nira Woods 2020-10-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal recusal standing superior-court Were Petitioner's Constitutional Rights violated (including the 15+, 5th, and 14th Amendment(s))
20-524 Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process
20-5855 In Re Ruben Orlando Benitez 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority civil-procedure court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent new-evidence recusal standing Whether the Court committed errors therein arising from oversight
20-5840 James Robert Miller v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ethical-violations federal-jurisdiction indictment-dismissal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Whether a prosecutor's initiation of an investigation in a case in which he has a personal and financial interest, and subsequent continued involvemen…
20-5830 Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady brady-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims
20-5697 Heather P. Hogrobrooks Harris v. Jimmie L. Smith Tennessee 2020-09-15 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard Whether a judge who lied about her reasons for not hearing from the Petitioner during a hearing and subsequently lied in her Order denying to recusal …
20-5564 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the district court's refusal to conduct a full resentencing with the defendant present renders the p…
20-248 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Charles Koch, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether the lower courts deprived the petitioner of due process rights by failing to provide an opportunity to be heard, properly weigh the evidence, …
20-165 Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller Wisconsin 2020-08-14 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook 'friends'?
20-5180 Matthew J. Frawley v. Victoria L. Frawley Missouri 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal missouri-supreme-court-rules parental-rights recusal whether-the-trial-court-judge-should-have-recused-themselves
19-1463 Sandra Jean Oliver v. James C. Oliver, Jr., et al. Mississippi 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction recusal rule-60 standing void-judgment Whether four orders issued by the chancery court, when the court did not have jurisdiction over the Petitioners, should be held as void and vacated pu…
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal Whether the trial court judge's, a former prosecutor of appellant's prior criminal trial, refusal to recuse himself and his subsequent judicial partic…
19-8736 Linda Renae Clark v. Washington Washington 2020-06-17 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-testing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-evidence public-defender recusal sixth-amendment whether-a-criminal-defendant's-sixth-amendment-rights-are-violated
19-8667 Diamante Alfred v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process individualized-sentencing judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-bargaining recusal sentencing supervised-release supervision-violation Does a district court fail to appropriately individualize a sentence where the sentence imposed is based on a 'promise' made by the judge, long before…
19-8556 Kehinde Adeyemi Elebute v. Village Capital and Investment, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied IFP bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts judgment-entry judgments judicial-succession motion-reconsideration procedural-timeline recusal rule-60b standing Whether a successor to a judge that retired may refuse to consider a Rule 60(b)(1) motion on the grounds that he does not reconsider orders entered by…
19-1268 Jeanetta Springer, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial pro-se-litigation recusal standing Can a court force a pro se litigant to a bench trial despite demand for jury trial?
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus…
19-1224 Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim California 2020-04-16 Denied campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal Whether Judge Greenberg's refusal to recuse herself and failure to timely and accurately disclose campaign contributions violated the Due Process and …
19-7979 Leo Chadwick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-fighting animal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pre-sentence-report recusal sentencing Whether a judge's statements demonstrating extreme bias against pit bull owners as a class and advocating the elimination of anyone involved in dogfig…
19-7921 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. Superior Court of California, Monterey County Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-bias recusal vexatious-litigant void-judgment Is it contrary to clearly established laws for an attorney to knowingly use court cases that were never filed or commenced, or maintained to use as ex…
19-7650 D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State violated the Due Process Clause by failing to provide a court-ordered domestic violence/anger management evaluation and treatment to…
19-7541 Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his tr…
19-7483 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts
19-7176 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion bias due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief recusal trial-procedure Should recusal of a judge be allowed during the post conviction relief phase if the prejudice and bias of the trial judge is apparent on the face of t…
19-7189 Kevin D. Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge abuse his discretion in refusing to recuse himself
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
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-681 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing Whether a Federal Court can deny an attorney admission to the bar for allegedly impugning the integrity of a judge in violation of ABA Model Rule 8.2(…
19-602 Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge …
19-482 ASAP Copy and Print, et al. v. Canon Solutions America, Inc. California 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights-act-of-1866 due-process judicial-immunity law-of-the-case recusal recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California's common law concept of 'law of the case' may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § …
19-459 Texas Brine Company, LLC v. Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC Louisiana 2019-10-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias political-sensitivity random-assignment recusal When a litigant presents a colorable claim of judicial-bias, does due-process entitle that litigant to an evidentiary-hearing
19-6156 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Relisted (6)IFP abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed …
19-6031 In Re Keith E. Doyle 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-intent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-recusal montana-constitution preliminary-hearing recusal stare-decisis state-constitution unlawful-conviction Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying the right to habeas corpus to challenge an unlawful convicti…
19-359 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-carrier due-process first-class-postage judicial-bias mandamus penalty-of-perjury recusal service standing supreme-court-rule third-party-carrier writ-of-mandamus Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the petitioners' request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district court to recuse itself from the unde…
19-5961 Mark Whitehead v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove…
19-335 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-12 Denied appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase without n…
19-5848 Saquawn Harris v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-review federal-rule-35 federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-statute judicial-procedure majority-vote recusal statutory-interpretation Whether recused judges are excluded from the count of a majority of judges in regular active service for purposes of granting en banc rehearing under …
19-5823 Jason Alston v. Arianna W. Eastman Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit in-forma-pauperis interested-parties judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-for-leave recusal standing Whether United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abuse its discretion in denying petitioner Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauper…
19-5765 Barbara E. Brown v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct legal-proceeding recusal redress standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred
19-5713 Larael Owens v. Tamesha Saddlers, et al. Florida 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-hearing due-process due-process' 'If a judge has a financial interest false-information financial-affidavit financial-interest fraud hearing judicial-bias judicial-ethics' 'Has the petitioner due process r lower-court lower-court' 'If a financial affidavit has false i procedural-due-process procedural-fairness recusal standing substantive-due-process void-judgment Is a judgment that was issued from a lower court void if the lower court did not offer a hearing for that matter?
19-212 Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston Louisiana 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether Armand Roos' participation as Plaintiff's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Process
19-5594 Tina Davis v. Texas Children's Hospital Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eeoc-rights employment-discrimination employment-law judicial-disqualification recusal standing summary-judgment ten-amendment Whether the district court abused its discretion in granting summary judgment under Rule 60(b) and denying the appellant's motion for summary judgment…
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether a Court of Appeals may ignore an appellant's request to recuse itself in an appeal where the Court of Appeals is the only defendant and appell…
18A1369 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-panel due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing an appellate panel without notice or by requiring a judge to sit on a pane…
18-9669 Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association California 2019-06-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing Whether the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 justices should have recused themselves from the appeal of a judgment against the peti…
18-9569 Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA?
18-9561 In Re Benny Stewart 2019-06-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-procedure due-process due-process,recusal,probable-cause,felony-prosecut felony-prosecution information judge-recusal judicial-bias judicial-recusal probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion recusal state-law Whether the potential for bias and lack of impartiality when a judge makes probable cause determinations and presides over all proceedings in a felony…
18-9517 Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-06-03 Denied Relisted (7)IFP adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure Whether Pope and Isom's significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as t…
18-9379 Paul A. Light v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines can be deemed reasonable when the Sentencing Commission has deemed …
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-9047 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-motion-to-vacate,judicial- court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias motion-to-vacate recusal recusal-relief standing Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a Motion to Vacate under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60
18-9008 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias due-process evidentiary-facts in-re-murchison judicial-bias post-conviction-relief recusal rippo-v-baker williams-v-pennsylvania Whether there is an impermissible risk of actual bias, likelihood of bias, appearance of bias, or unconstitutional potential for bias on the issue of …
18-8836 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP sovereign-immunity-waiver 28-usc-2106 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-process judicial-recusal judicial-review recusal sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Supreme Court may consider the risk of manifest injustice and potential effect on public confidence in the judicial process when an impair…
18-8750 Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal Must a judge recuse himself after improper ex parte communication?
18-8765 Michael A. Young v. Thomas Duncan, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling recusal rico standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified
18-8605 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination discrimination-case due-process equal-protection judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss race-gender-discrimination recusal renewable-energy Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
18-8390 Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime Whether a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a 'victim' of the offense in deciding to sentence a defendan…
18-8240 Howard Anthony Moniz v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard Should the State Circuit Court Judge be disqualified from ruling on a collateral appeal for relief from judgment where he personally opposed post-conv…
18-8248 Hersy Jones, Jr. v. Supreme Court of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment disbarment due-process judicial-review recusal rooker-feldman section-1983 standing Does Rooker Feldman bar a disbarred attorney from seeking damages and equitable relief under Sec. 1983
18-8127 Nguyen Vu v. Sandy L.V. Byrd, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, First Judicial District, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights cross-examination due-process evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated
18-7835 Iouri Mikhel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure Where significant evidence of competency is susceptible to conflicting inferences, what standard of proof is required for a competency hearing and wha…
18-7752 Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 appointment-of-counsel circuit-panel-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-complexity pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation recusal standing Whether the replacement Circuit Panel repeatedly refused to address/clarify Jurisdiction issues, ultimately denying Petitioner's efforts to resolve a …
18-1007 Assem A. Abulkhair v. Google LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process email-privacy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-recusal law-enforcement-overreach privacy-rights recusal religious-discrimination search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether the District Judge has the authority to dismiss suit while his/her recusal remains pending and his/her disqualification and impartiality comes…
18-7654 Steven Fausnaught v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process in-camera-review judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct medical-records mental-capacity recusal separation-of-powers standing Whether the district court is required to undertake an In Camera review of District Court Judge Edwin Kosik's medical records to determine the onset o…
18-7524 Roger L. Harrison, Jr., et al. v. Charlotte H. Huggins, et al. Illinois 2019-01-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process government-seizure indigent-rights necessary-parties petition-clause petition-for-redress petition-rights recusal seizure-of-property standing takings trust-property Whether due process allows the denial of the right to petition the government for redress of grievances due to lack of funds to pay court costs and fe…
18-7030 S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia 2018-12-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in reversing the lower court's decision in favor of the petitioner
18-732 Jean Coulter v. Blaze Tatananni, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process grand-jury-review impartiality judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal standing vagueness Are Recusal Statutes 28 U.S. Code §455 and §144 Unconstitutionally Vague?
18-6857 Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal?
18-6796 Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing Did the second panel err in denying Muckle's motion to remand or recuse itself due to appearance of impropriety and Canon 8C
18-6723 Robert Noel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal structural-error when-the-district-judge-has-a-direct-personal-substantial-pecuniary-interest-in-the-outcome
18-577 David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata Does the above scenario represent a violation of Rule 455(a), an appearance of impropriety and/or conflict of interests?
18-6559 Tommy Alexander, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-rights court-recusal due-process fair-and-impartial-court impartiality judicial-bias recusal tribunal-fairness Whether the District Court displayed bias against the Petitioner, creating a constitutional issue of a fair and impartial court
18-6519 Mariano Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence?
18-497 Jean Coulter v. Cathy Bissoon, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal rule-of-law separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Have the courts' refusal to recuse and non-compliance with criminal/civil statutes, case law and their code of conduct and the rule of law resulted in…
18-6263 Ilich Vargas v. John McMahon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-complaint constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pleading pro-se-litigant recusal screening section-1983 standing Whether a district court judge and a magistrate conducting a 28 U.S.C. § 1915 IFP screening acted on an excess of discretion and beyond the limits of …
18-372 Ryan Joe Coddington v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-21 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality prosecutor-conflict prosecutorial-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Is a criminal defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial before a fair and impartial tribunal denied when the tribunal is linked by marriage to …
18-6044 Richard James Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-19 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania Does the right to due process require a finding of structural error where one member of the reviewing court is the son of the elected attorney general…
18-344 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2018-09-17 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts american-inns-of-court attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest court-of-appeal due-process judge-disclosure judicial-ethics recusal right-to-appeal social-relationship Does due process require reversal of dismissals due to judge's failure to recuse or disclose conflicts of interest
18-5649 Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto?
18-5591 Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing Whether a judge's refusal to recuse himself after being photographed in his chambers violates the petitioner's civil rights under 42 USC 1983
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a…
18-5020 In Re Lewis Brown 2018-06-28 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error Whether a judge who is named as an adverse party opponent is prohibited from presiding over the proceedings in which he is a defendant, and whether th…