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25-860 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions 1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec…
25-6525 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure legal-ethics model-rules professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics sanctions Is requesting, For sanctions inapplicable in criminal Proceedings when an or violates the Model Rules i professiona| Con uct ? Tin requesting that so…
25A733 Scott Erik Stafne v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Application appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-questions judicial-authority pro-se sanctions Whether a federal district court can impose sanctions on an attorney for refusing to file substantive presentations while challenging the court's auth…
25A606 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-11-21 Application bad-faith discovery due-process federal-courts inherent-authority sanctions Whether federal courts can impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith in the context of discovery disputes
25-6192 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case (in hidden 5thC 20-50025) now a ripe Article III of the US Constitution bankruptcy case ready to proc…
25A559 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-13 Application bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions Whether federal courts may impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith when dismissing a pro se prisoner's civil ri…
25A540 Andrew Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Application attorney-conduct due-process election-litigation first-amendment rule-11 sanctions Whether the First Amendment and due process protections limit a federal court's ability to impose sanctions on attorneys for filing election-related l…
25-6056 Ruben Santoyo v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sanctions 1. Jurisdiction after appeal. Whether a district court may impose a punitive monetary sanction sua sponte after a notice of appeal has divested it of …
25A348 Adriano Kruel Budri v. Greg Patrick McAllister, et al. Texas 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure due-process pro-se sanctions texas-supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant was denied due process and violated statutory provisions under the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code when sanctions were …
25-276 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure legal-standard non-signing-party reasonable-inquiry rule-11 sanctions Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 permits sanctions to be imposed on represented parties who do not sign the pleading, motion, or other paper…
25A217 Geronimo Velasco v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete court-integrity due-process federal-rules judicial-estoppel phantom-hearing sanctions Whether a federal district judge may commit judicial estoppel by issuing contradictory orders and imposing sanctions based on a legally non-existent '…
24-1168 M. D., By Next Friend, Sarah R. Stukenberg, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-contempt compliance court-order due-process judicial-procedure sanctions Whether civil contempt sanctions imposed through proceedings that undisputedly comported with civil due process may be affirmed even if the contempt o…
24-989 Cedrick Frazier, et al. v. Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied Response Waived due-process electronic-stored-information fraud-upon-court inherent-authority sanctions seventh-amendment Whether a federal court can impose case-ending sanctions based on inherent authority for alleged ESI fabrication when a colorable medical malpractice …
24-552 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2024-11-18 Denied Response Waived article-three due-process fifth-amendment intervention legal-standing sanctions Whether the 7th Circuit violated Article III and the 5th Amendment by allowing JPMorgan Chase to intervene in a closed case without legal standing and…
24-501 V.V.V. & Sons Edible Oils Limited v. Meenakashi Overseas, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied appellate-damages circuit-precedent due-process federal-statute frivolous-appeal sanctions May an appellate court award damages for a frivolous appeal when the test used is unsupported by Circuit precedent and contradicts federal statute and…
24-233 Johnmack Cohen v. Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied attorney-conduct bad-faith civil-procedure inherent-powers rule-11 sanctions Whether a court can use the implicit Rule 11(b) certification of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that automatically attaches to all attorneys' pa…
24-5363 Anthony Wong v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals false-testimony federal-employee judicial-review perjury sanctions Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying Motions for Sanctions and Referral for Perjury by a federal employee, despite alleged false testimo…
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to engage in the COA process
23-1032 Gary Topolewski v. URS Holdings, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inherent-authority ninth-circuit rule-37 sanctions Is Societe Internationale still good law, thereby making the Ninth Circuit's practice of substituting an inherent authority' analysis for Rule 37 juri…
23-823 Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing whether-enforcing-28-usc-455(a)-will-restore-public-confidence
23A662 Jacques Saade v. Fay Servicing, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure filing-restrictions judicial-economy mortgage-default pro-se-litigation sanctions Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of substantially similar lawsuits challenging a mortgage default constitutes vexatious litigation warranti…
23-731 Kyros Law P.C., et al. v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-amendment inherent-judicial-power rules-enabling-act sanctions What Due Process mandates under US Constitution Article III and Amendment V, Rules Enabling Act, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Inherent Judicia…
23-704 Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt decisional-law equitable-remedies federal-trade-commission ftc-act permanent-injunction rule-60(b)(6) sanctions Can a fundamental change in decisional law independently support relief from a judgment under Rule 60(b)(6)?
23-697 Tony Evers, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Wisconsin v. Michael Dean, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-mandate civil-procedure costs district-court fees judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-fees sanctions sanctions-motion section-1927 Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that district courts lack jurisdiction to consider motions under Section 1927 after a court of appeals has issu…
23-497 L. Lin Wood v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived attorney-ethics attorney-liability civil-procedure due-process federal-civil-procedure frivolous-pleading of-counsel rule-11 rule-11-sanctions safe-harbor-period sanctions standing Whether an attorney whose name is designated as 'Of Counsel' on the signature page of a frivolous pleading that the attorney did not sign, file, submi…
23-486 Sidney Powell, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure electoral-college first-amendment petition petition-clause rule-11 safe-harbor sanctions Whether serving a Rule 11(c)(2) motion that seeks different relief and lacks the filed version's brief and details triggers the 21-day safe-harbor per…
23-5870 George Tolbert v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Seventh Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation consumer-protection discovery due-process federal-regulation foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure property-rights sanctions Whether Nationstar/Mr. Cooper failed to comply with discovery rules, the Dodd-Frank 120-day rule, and other consumer protection regulations, and wheth…
23-5783 Edward Francis Davis v. Power Authority of the State of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-handling in-forma-pauperis judicial-precedent procedural-fairness sanctions supervisory-power whether-petitioner-was-treated-unfairly-and-unequally
23-181 Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal district-court-discretion federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standards rule-11-sanctions sanctions settlement sua-sponte-sanctions Did the district court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Petitioner sua sponte pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 11 after settlement…
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…
23-55 J. Cory Cordova v. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adversary-system attorney-misconduct first-amendment fraud judicial-review litigation-tactics medicare-fraud public-interest sanctions viewpoint-discrimination Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First Amendment
23-40 Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence Should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evidence when there are less severe sanctions availab…
22-1215 Darren Thomas Delafield v. Gerard R. Vetter, Acting United States Trustee Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied attorney-client-privilege bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-sanctions due-process judicial-discretion non-compensatory-punitive-damages professional-conduct sanctions subpoena Did the Bankruptcy Court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Delafield for asserting attorney-client privilege on behalf of his clients?
22-1140 Dr. Chinwe Offor v. Mercy Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabrication forgery fraud hospital-records mcdonnell-douglas precedent sanctions summary-judgment Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that egregious and repetitive acts…
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-1117 Charlotte Freeman, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied civil-conspiracy civil-rights conspiracy deferred-prosecution-agreements due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations jasta material-support sanctions terrorism terrorism-sanctions Whether a JASTA claim for civil conspiracy requires only that acts of international terrorism be a foreseeable consequence of the terrorism sanctions …
22-1084 Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned
22-7306 Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st-amendment-rights and 7th-amendmen…
22-7285 Susan Lloyd v. Thomas Pokorny, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial sanctions standing trial-procedure Are the orders from the 6th Circuit void, should Lloyd's motion for reconsideration be denied?
22-7294 Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment Whether the systemic discrimination against pro se litigants by the federal courts, including the imposition of punitive sanctions for filing non-friv…
22-7102 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion arbitration-costs civil-procedure civil-rights discovery-order due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata sanctions standing whether-redetermination-is-warranted
22-6850 Raul Mendez v. Community Health Clinics, Inc., dba Terry Reilly Health Services Ninth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery-sanction dismissal-sanction due-process finality-rule judicial-discretion res-judicata sanctions usurpation-of-judicial-power writ-of-certiorari Is a dismissal sanction a decision on the legal merits of the case? Are Courts required to warn parties about the possibility of dismissal in order to…
22-763 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence cross-examination due-process evidence fraud-on-the-court judicial-procedure rule-of-law sanctions Whether the Sixth Circuit panel's decision to affirm the District Court decision that was based on the application of the wrong legal test constituted…
22-6405 David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Whether the USCA-7's imposition of a $500 sanction and bar from filing future habeas petitions against Gakuba constitutes a First Amendment retaliatio…
22-553 Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching Should arbitrators have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of FRCP Rule 37?
22-440 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts that occur after a judgment, because of an …
22-5959 William A. White v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-order document-entry due-process false-statements judicial-discretion procedural-standards sanctions standing Did the Seventh Circuit err in upholding two orders issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois barring the petit…
22-390 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-rights attorney-fees attorneys-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-sanction limited-jurisdiction rule-of-law sanctions whether-the-superior-court-of-california-has-exceeded-its-jurisdiction
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?
22-5501 In Re Eric Drake 2022-09-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation sanctions state-courts vexatious-litigant Whether federal courts can issue prefiling injunctions without notice and a hearing
22-180 Matthew Stanek, et al. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303 Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-compliance civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-challenges deposition-discrimination discovery due-process equal-access law-office-accessibility sanctions Whether a law office is subject to the non-discrimination requirements of the Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act
22-5425 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-removal federal-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation removal sanction-fees sanctions vexatious-litigant Should-removal-from-state-court-to-federal-court-be-allowed-only-after-state-court-hearing
22-5157 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-hearing jurisdiction removal removal-procedure sanctions unconstitutional-rulings Should removal from a state court to a federal court be allowed without a hearing to determine if the case is a state or federal issue?
21-1607 Oleg Deripaska v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-orders foreign-assets-control international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-law national-emergency national-security sanctions treasury-department Whether the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control acted beyond the scope of its statutory authority under the In…
21-8239 Lawrence L. Crawford, aka Johah Gabriel, aka Jahjah T. Tishbite v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure sanctions separation-of-powers spoliation standing Does the filing submitted by the petitioner(s) serve as a functional equivalent to an informal brief?
21-1513 Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III Fourth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an applicable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an exemption under said statute?
21-7805 William Paul Burch v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant removal sanctions What is the complete legal definition of frivolous?
21-1331 Marcus A. Murphy v. Amanda Cameron Dalton, aka Mandy Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-discretion due-process energy-company pro-se-plaintiff sanctions tort-law Whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the plaintiff's claims and imposing sanctions
21-7550 Sharon Neal v. Natalia Neal Oregon 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection indigent involuntary-dismissal judicial-discretion sanctions Is it a violation of due-process to involuntarily dismiss a case with prejudice for a party's failure to pay a monetary sanction that bears no relevan…
21-1029 Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. Kentucky 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-allegations defendant-sanctions dismissal due-process good-faith-findings pre-discovery-dismissal sanctions standing trial-court-dismissal Whether a trial court may dismiss all allegations against most defendants before discovery without construing the complaint in the light most favorabl…
21-776 Billy Duncan, as Next Friend of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. v. Tonya Barina, as Guardian of the Estate of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. Texas 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process guardianship jurisdiction next-friend pre-trial-sanctions sanctions standing Whether Charlie had a right to appeal through his next friend and the sanctions order was contrary to the evidence
21-604 Stephen Kantos v. Leonard Major, et al. Michigan 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-right court-of-appeals dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial legal-sanction sanctions standing vicencio-v-ramirez Did the court of appeals err in denying plaintiff's right to a jury trial
21-524 Schlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York Connecticut 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure discovery due-process foreclosure judicial-sanctions mortgage-law notice property-rights sanctions Whether granting sanctions without adequate notice and opportunity to be heard violates due process
21-5864 Deloris Phillips v. Columbia Luxar Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights court-system due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sanctions vexatious-litigant Whether it is unconstitutional to label a litigant as vexatious without due process
21-425 Riccardo Green v. Washington State Employment Security Department Washington 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-reconsideration petition-for-review sanctions state-supreme-court us-constitution washington-state-constitution Whether the Washington State Supreme Court erred in judgment and abused discretion
21-329 Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding sanctions against pro se, denial of damages and right to a jury trial, when admitting not supported by the reco…
21-5508 Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's imposition of a 2-year ban on Petitioner from filing any civil actions in the district court, and the denial of Petitione…
21-5126 Kevin Tyrell Beach v. Florida Florida 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process irreparable-harm mistrial pro-se pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sanctions Does it constitute 'bad faith conduct' or 'abuse of discretion' when a judge denies a defendant's numerous pre-trial requests for 'stand-by' counsel
20-1600 Sae Han Sheet Co., Ltd. v. Eastman Performance Films, LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure contract-action dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-sanctions legal-procedure sanctions warnings Whether lower courts must refrain from using the sanction of dismissal unless egregious conduct justifying dismissal is committed in the face of direc…
20-1542 Michael Mogan v. Jeff Henry, et al. California 2021-05-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment arbitration attorney california-court due-process prevailing-party sanctions Whether a California court can impose sanctions against an attorney without violating due-process
20-7860 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law pro-se-litigant property-rights sanctions statutory-interpretation Is the statutory law taking of a person's property arbitrary, too broad and discriminatory under Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161 (2002) and v…
20-7773 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Distric…
20-7756 Brandon Lamar Tademy v. Colorado Colorado 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence sanctions spoliation Whether the district court erroneously denied the petitioner's motion to dismiss or impose other appropriate sanctions for destruction of evidence, in…
20-1422 76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing Should the Supreme Court adopt Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports as a national standard to balance the need to deter abusive serial ADA filings with the need …
20-1363 Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 Whether the denial of additional attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 should be vacated if the Rule 11 sanctions are disturbed on appeal
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress state g…
20-1024 Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. Kentucky 2021-01-28 Denied appellate-procedure civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigation rule-11-sanctions rule-12-dismissal sanctions standing whether-trial-court-construed-complaint-favorably
20-6795 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2021-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process eviction ex-parte-eviction judicial-discretion property-rights sanctions Does the 'Compel Obedience Clause' in Civil Code of Procedure Section 128 allow ex parte eviction on the court's own motion?
20-773 Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process Whether a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be granted despite the movants' failure to serve the motion prior to filing
20-6491 In Re Mario Allan Montano 2020-12-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process fee-waiver filing-injunction judicial-sanctions jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits michigan-supreme-court sanctions Did the Michigan Supreme Court fail to rule on the Petitioner's motions to waive fees and issue orders dismissing uncontested cases without jurisdicti…
20-749 Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. Texas 2020-12-01 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply the proper standard of review and perform the correct factual and legal anal…
20-6429 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud chapter-7-proceeding embezzlement estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraud injunction sanctions secured-creditor trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors?
20-699 Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal Whether a plaintiff has an absolute right to voluntary dismissal under FRCP Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i)
20-694 Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., et al. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, et al. Wisconsin 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection federal-law judicial-review notice procedural-due-process property property-rights religious-exercise sanctions sua-sponte sua-sponte-analysis Did the Wisconsin courts deprive petitioners of due process by reversing sanctions without notice?
20-6235 Mario Montano v. Court of Appeals of Michigan Michigan 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts court-sanctions due-process indigent-litigants indigent-rights judicial-abuse judicial-authority legal-merit procedural-fairness sanctions Did the Michigan Supreme Court abuse its authority by sanctioning the indigent Petitioner $1000 payable to the Clerk of the Court that it knew he coul…
20-565 George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Distr…
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2) claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions Claim-preclusion-issue
20-483 Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions Did the district court err in imposing case-terminating sanctions?
20-475 Stanley V. Campbell v. Eagle Force Holdings, LLC, et al. Delaware 2020-10-13 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure personal-jurisdiction sanctions Can a finding of civil contempt and the imposition of a sanction be sustained consistent with the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Cons…
20-5989 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-10-09 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights court-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation pro-se sanctions Whether it was proper to impose sanctions and attorney's fees on a pro se petitioner, when the petitioner did not have an opportunity to respond at th…
20-5922 Julia Hook v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts Does a defense cause prejudice due to inadequate notice?
20-169 Lawrence Richard Metsch v. Timothy Hajdasz Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-procedure removal removal-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions sanctions stonewalling subject-matter-jurisdiction time-limit Did the Eleventh Circuit err in imposing sanctions on the defendant's lawyer for removing the case to federal court?
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah 2020-06-29 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat…
19-1287 In Re Robert Sarhan, et ux. 2020-05-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition rooker-feldman-doctrine sanctions standing state-court-judgment writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of mandamus be issued to the Eleventh Circuit
19-1236 Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens South Dakota 2020-04-20 Denied Response Waived terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions What constitutes 'Due Process of Law? Can binding orders be implemented
19-8215 Victor Rivera-Munoz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing manager-enhancement sanctions sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines subordinate-authority subordinates supervisor-enhancement supervisor-role Can a defendant receive a manager or supervisor enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1 when the evidence establishes that his alleged subordinates felt fr…
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation of the gatekeeper standard?
19-1188 Samaca, LLC v. Cellairis Franchise, Inc., et al. Georgia 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act georgia litigation preemption sanctions standing state-law Is Georgia's remedy for abusive litigation under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-8142 Robert Sarhan, et ux. v. H & H Investors, Inc. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-review denial-of-hearing due-process final-judgment indispensable-party judicial-procedure mortgage-foreclosure sanctions service-of-process void-judgment Whether Anabella Soury was denied due process in a mortgage foreclosure case
19-1016 Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial
19-7374 In Re John Wallace 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute whether-magistrate-judge-exceeded-authority-in-issuing-strike
19-7050 In Re Charlene Rosa 2019-12-23 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sanctions statutory-interpretation witness-testimony Whether the Koweth, Oortrick Covert 4 wypptooll abuse dy duration M Sombion Hh lod decmaye
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of a Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to Ru…
19-6903 Alvin R. Barney, II v. Escambia County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure failure-to-prosecute final-judgment judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal premature-appeal sanction sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit had the authority or subject matter jurisdiction to dismiss a premature notice of appeal as a sanction for failure to pro…
19-651 John P. DeRose v. Village of Orland Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-requirements rule-11 safe-harbor safe-harbor-provision sanctions service-of-motion May a party satisfy the safe-harbor provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11
19-6565 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-rights due-process estoppel exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review sanctions work-product work-product-protection Whether the judicial officials and clerical employees of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in intentionally laching upon…
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention Whether a state court criminal defendant can enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held…
19-6248 In Re Warren Parks 2019-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure sanction-hearing sanctions standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the sanction imposed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit complied with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-476 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud housing-dispute judicial-discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant retaliation sanctions standing state-officer-misconduct Can state officers discriminate against pro se litigants?
19-6227 In Re Steven Talbert Williams 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contempt-of-court dismissal due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis sanctions standing Whether the dismissal of a case as 'frivolous' under 28 USC 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) and 18 U.S.C. §402 violates the 6th and 10th Amendments of the U.S. Const…
19-6141 Donnie Ray Jose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process judicial-discretion plea-negotiations prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions trial-strategy When a federal prosecutor concedes a serious discovery violation shortly before trial, should the district court's response take into account, among o…
19-317 Susan R. Gokool v. Oklahoma City University Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure legal-notice notice opportunity-to-be-heard sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the circuit court's failure to notify Petitioner to be heard and object to its sanction under Fed. R. Appl. P. 38 for costs under Fed. Appl. P…
19-270 Patricia Rodriguez v. LPP Mortgage Ltd., LP Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure client-advocacy credible-arguments due-process legal-ethics rule-11 sanctions zealous-representation Whether rule-11-sanctions-against-attorney-should-be-reversed
19-5662 Carter Stephens v. Marcelo Britto Gomez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process henderson-factors judicial-intervention legal-ethics legal-malpractice sanctions standing state-bar state-bar-regulation Why was plaintiff Carter Stephens not informed by the State Bar of the neglectful attorney's record he retained?
19-207 David Grober, et al. v. Mako Products, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery due-process expense-sanctions federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion litigation-compliance reasoned-decision rule-37 sanctions Whether the mandatory expense sanctions of FRCP Rule 37 can be circumvented by a court ignoring, or reducing them, including to zero, absent the losin…
19-5405 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights dismissal-order due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus pro-se-litigation sanctions sovereign-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims against the United States government and its officials, in violation of the pet…
19-5364 In Re Carl A. Courtright, III 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in ordering a $500 sanction against a pro se indigent petitioner?
19-5249 George E. Kersey v. Herb Chambers 1186, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-07-22 Dismissed IFP appeal appeals civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals district-court due-process filing-fee frivolous in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation sanctions screening standing Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's certification that the appeal was not taken in good faith
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui…
18A1313 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Presumed Complete collateral-estoppel deficiency sanctions statute-of-limitations tax-court tax-return Whether the Tax Court and Ninth Circuit improperly applied collateral estoppel to preclude taxpayers from challenging the validity of a tax return whe…
18-9421 In Re Ronald D. Veteto 2019-05-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-penalty civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-misconduct due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-petition notice-pleading prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights sanctions Whether the district court and Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Veteto's civil rights claims and petitions for mandamus relief
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning When is it appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37?
18-9249 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-rules answering-brief appellate-procedure brief-filing civil-procedure deadlines judicial-sanctions motion-for-sanctions notification pro-se-litigation procedural-deadlines sanctions Whether the 9th Circuit erred in denying Plaintiff-Appellant's motion for sanctions against Defendant-Appellee for failure to file an answering brief …
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order, thereby violating the petitioner's procedural due process …
18-1406 Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. Arizona 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing …
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…
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case based on the magistrate judge's fraudulent statements and Huawei's perjured testimony
18-8602 Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing Whether Franks v. Delaware should be revisited to allow sanctions for false affiant declarations even if there remains probable cause in the absence o…
18-8580 Sidney Marts, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sanctions standing Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in upholding sanctions against the petitioner that violated his due process rights under the 14th Amendment
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Dismissal of petitioner's employment discrimination lawsuit as a sanction without prior court finding or warning of discovery violation
18-7916 Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request to file a successive petition for post-conviction relief based on a ne…
18-7868 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two, Inc., dba Marsh's Sunfresh Market, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery-order dismissal due-process judicial-discretion lesser-sanctions prejudice procedural-fairness sanctions Whether the district court is required to provide the sanctioned party with adequate due process before dismissing the lawsuit?
18-7724 Elloyd Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law court-procedure due-process legal-challenge pauper pauper-petition pauper-status rule-10.6 sanctions standing statutory-provisions supervisory-power untimely-pay-sanction Whether the USCA denial of rehearing en banc constitutes a 90-day deadline for filing a certiorari in this case under S.C. Rule 13.3?
18-982 In Re Beverly L. Hennager, et al. 2019-01-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection limited-partnership mandamus non-discretionary-action pre-filing-injunction property property-rights sanctions standing writ-of-appeal Whether the enforcement of an appellant mandate affirming the plain, unambiguous language of a previous order compelling specific non-discretionary ac…
18-7398 Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt New Mexico 2019-01-14 Denied IFP amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summary judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues?
18-860 Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed
18-867 Matthew E. Jackson, Jr., et al. v. Frances Edith Jackson Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-sanctions criminal-sanctions due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection evidentiary-standards jurisdictional-limitations precedent procedural-protections sanctions supreme-court Whether the failure of a court to comply with the jurisdictional limitations, procedural and due process protections, evidentiary standards, the prece…
18-771 Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions Whether review is warranted for sanctions against pro se plaintiff
18-765 James H. Brady v. New York, et al. New York 2018-12-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)?
18-655 Craig J. Spitzer v. Trisha A. Aljoe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion attorney-misconduct barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery-sanctions-public-entity- discovery discovery-sanctions discretionary-review frcp-26 public-entity sanctions section-1983 state-court-receiver Does a district court have a duty under FRCP 26(g)(3) to sanction public entities and their attorneys for improper withholding of documents requested …
18-6442 Phillip T. Merritt v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discovery due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ sanctions standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Was it an abuse of sanction on behalf of the judge to refuse to seal the discovery papers?
18-479 Marc Schenkel v. Xyngular Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response Waived case-management civil-procedure civil-rights district-court district-court-authority due-process free-speech inherent-authority judicial-discretion pre-litigation-conduct prelitigation-conduct sanctions standing Whether a district court's inherent authority to manage the disposition of cases, including by imposing sanctions on a party, does not extend to condu…
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…
18-326 Estate of Bernice Goldberg by Executor Gary Goldberg v. Philip Nimoityn, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perjury procedural-due-process sanctions trial-evidence Is a federal court required to follow the federal Rules of Civil Procedure and procedural due process, which mandate that an expert's report and depos…
18-5794 Ronnie Keith Davis v. Benjamin Maddie Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-procedure civil-rights-proceeding evidentiary-hearing first-national-bank-v-lustig fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass inherent-power miscarriage-of-justice rozier-v-ford-motor rule-60(b)(3) rule-60b3 sanctions summary-judgment Whether a motion to vacate a judgment under Rule 60(b)(3) is governed by the grave miscarriage of justice standard when alleging fraud upon the court …
18-5729 Juan Diaz, Jr. v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process sanctions standing subpoenas Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for production of documents and placing excessive burdens on the respondents to produ…
18-233 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1927 act-of-state-doctrine congressional-intent due-process extraterritorial-application federal-sanctions inherent-powers rule-44.1 sanctions sovereign-immunity Did Congress intend the court's inherent powers and 28 U.S.C. § 1927 to apply extraterritorially, allowing Rule 44.1 analysis to be applied to oversea…
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance Whether a non-party subpoena recipient is automatically entitled to recover significant expenses incurred in responding to a subpoena before a court o…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado…
18-5463 Michael Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure due-process filing-of-record notice opportunity-to-be-heard response right-to-be-heard sanction sanctions Whether due process requires that a petitioner be provided notice and an opportunity to be heard before a sanction is entered against them
18-140 In Re Cliven Bundy 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's admission pro hac vice despite the fact that it is no…
18-79 Tiberiu Klein, et al. v. Daniel O'Brien, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process fraud incompetence judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-standards notice opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Seventh Circuit violates its own Standards and Rules and violate petitioners' due process rights in falsely accusing an attorney of pretense, …