right-to-petition

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25-5461 Gary Eugene Maddox, II v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-08-25 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP clerk-obstruction document-misappropriation fraud-upon-court jurisdictional-challenge right-to-petition supreme-court-docket Did National Supreme Court clerk Danny Bickel violate Maddox's right to petition the Government by committing clerk obstruction and fraud upon the cou…
24-6769 Maylois Bacot, aka Maylois Conerly Price, aka Maylois Conerly, aka Maylois Price v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4 Louisiana 2025-03-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech right-to-petition Whether the court violated the Petitioner's First Amendment right to freedom of speech and right to petition the court, and whether the court's proced…
24-5884 Sheng-Wen Cheng v. P. Grenier, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-claim constitutional-violation judicial-remedy prison-counselor prisoner-rights right-to-petition Whether a Bivens claim against a prison counselor for denying a prisoner's right to petition can be dismissed despite the District Court finding a con…
23A769 Christine H. Scott v. Florida Florida 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech quasi-public-property right-to-petition Whether the First Amendment protects the right to petition for ballot access on quasi-public property when private entities control access in a manner…
23A609 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition Whether the First Amendment right to petition requires a trial court to make specific findings of fact and law when ruling on a motion to compel arbit…
23-353 John Jones v. Lyudmyla Pyankovska Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-liability child-custody custody-proceeding first-amendment omnibus-crime-control omnibus-crime-control-and-safe-streets-act recording-liability recordings right-to-petition title-iii Does the First Amendment right to petition the government extend to insulate an attorney from liability under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Stree…
22-923 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2023-03-22 Denied civil-rights discrimination-claims due-process first-amendment judicial-error right-to-petition summary-affirmance title-vii Whether inexcusable error by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an unclear Order with judicial errors that is confusing…
22-6709 Chad Michael Vice v. Lee County Correctional Medical Provider, et al. Iowa 2023-02-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection incarcerated-individuals judicial-discretion right-to-petition Whether an Iowa 8' District Court in North Lee County at Fort Madison ' abused its discretion in its Order denying a motion to reconsider as [not time…
22-6373 Alicja Z. Herriott v. Paul Barrett Herriott California 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-redress petition-clause right-to-petition vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statutory Law violates the due process rights of pro se litigants by denying them access to the courts
22-387 James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division Michigan 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition Does the Ninth Amendment guarantee certain rights?
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal be mooted prior to resolution
21-629 Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, et al. v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process free-speech preemption radio-frequency-radiation right-of-access-to-courts right-to-petition takings telecommunications telecommunications-act Whether the preemption by 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv) of any State remedy for injury by telecommunications facilities without providing a substitute …
21-353 Ethan Hoggatt, et al. v. Allstate Insurance, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment insurance-fraud mississippi-unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices-a negligence-per-se petition-clause right-to-petition Do Petitioners have an absolute right under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Mississippi's Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act to have the repor…
20-8396 Renee Denise Bell v. Florida Highway Patrol, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-23 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion right-to-petition standing statute-of-limitations Should a mandated order issued by a United States Appeals Court be struck down by a decision of a United States District Court, subjecting a plaintiff…
20-1626 Robert L. Schulz v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-response historical-practice judicial-review petition-clause right-to-petition Whether the forerunners to this case were fully, fairly and completely litigated
20-944 Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark Tennessee 2021-01-13 Denied appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents appel…
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said they reviewed 'an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo,' did they fail…
20-540 David Hegland, et al. v. Nicola T. Hanna Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied civil-rights congressional-acts due-process federal-grand-jury government-petitions government-redress judicial-accountability legal-standing ninth-circuit-review redress-of-grievances right-to-petition standing Do American Citizens have the right to petition their government for the redress of their grievances?
19-8590 Timothy A. Marr v. Joshua E. Doyle Florida 2020-06-02 Denied IFP constitutional-oath due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations judicial-conduct oath-of-office petition-rights right-to-petition Whether Florida's Code of Judicial Conduct permits fraud on or by judges and officers of a state's courts
19-8168 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation court-procedure due-process fabricated-facts first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition judicial-misconduct libel-and-defamation newly-discovered-evidence redress-of-grievances right-to-petition slander Whether Justise has a right to have the facts and issues he presents to a court for redress actually addressed, and what remedy he has if this right i…
19-7281 Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. District of Columbia 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasoning o…
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute?
19-548 Joseph R. Mullins v. Joseph E. Corcoran, et al. Massachusetts 2019-10-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-dispute first-amendment minority-shareholder-rights noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine petition right-to-petition sham-litigation Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may award damages against a party for the act of filing suit in a commercial dispute without finding that …
19-5329 James Lester Williams, Jr. v. Jamai F. Samuels Florida 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law-dispute petition-for-redress pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether Florida's Appellate Court(s) denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Petition's for Appeal, without any judicial reasoning or analysis to…
19-5016 Michael A. Salazar v. HEB Grocery Company, LP, et al. Texas 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud judicial-procedure petition-clause right-to-petition right-to-sue standing Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in affirming the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's case, which violated the petitioner's due process r…
19-17 Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker California 2019-07-01 Denied civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the DVPA's residual clause definition of 'abuse' is unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad
18-8444 Primo C. Novero v. Duke Energy Florida, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims document-delivery due-process equal-access equal-protection right-to-jury-trial right-to-petition rules-of-court standing trial-by-jury Does the district court erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 due process in defining 'time…
18-1164 In Re Alan Giordani 2019-03-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review property-rights right-to-petition rooker-feldman-doctrine second-amendment second-amendment-review special-master sua-sponte-review takings Whether the failure of the District Court to appoint a federal monitor or special master to review the matter was error
18-383 Jesse J. Davis, Jr., et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association Connecticut 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process Due-process-of-law,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amen equal-protection Equal-protection-of-the-laws,fourteenth-amendment Excessive-fines,foreclosure free-speech impartial-court petition-clause Right-to-impartial-court,sixth-amendment,seventh-a right-to-petition Right-to-petition-government,first-amendment right-to-public-trial Right-to-public-trial,right-to-information,sixth-a sanctions Whether the sanctions imposed by the Connecticut Appellate Court violate the petitioners' constitutional rights, including their rights to due process…
18-126 Paul Grimstad v. Deschutes County, Oregon, et al. Oregon 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived citizenship-privileges constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure oregon-appellate-courts right-to-petition self-representation state-court-procedure Whether the abuses I experienced in the Oregon Appellate Courts violated my constitutional guarantees to due-process, equal-protection, right-to-petit…
18-5320 James MacDonald v. Martin Dori Singer, et al. California 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-rules attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court free-speech organized-crime professional-conduct right-to-fair-trial right-to-petition slapp slapp-law standing unequal-protection Whether California's SLAPP law is unconstitutional for protecting unlawful petitioning activities, denying due process and the right to a fair trial, …