slavery

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5351 In Re Michael Toro El 2024-08-20 Denied IFP 13th-amendment constitutional-rights denationalization jurisdiction racial-labeling slavery Whether the use of racial labels on arrest records constitutes a violation of constitutional rights and a form of denationalization under the 13th Ame…
23-6539 In Re Jesse James Corbin-Bey 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto extraordinary-relief federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus imprisonment slavery state-court-jurisdiction Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to the Petitioner who has no other available forum to raise his compelling claims of …
22-5370 In Re Rodney Allen Bey 2022-08-17 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights denationalization due-process property racial-classification slave-status slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (negro, black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
22-91 Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav…
21-7527 Kieron Derek Penigar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-01 Dismissed IFP 13th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-access interstate-travel reproductive-rights slavery state-restrictions states-rights Whether the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows slavery in the Confederate states?
21-5007 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection racial-segregation reconstruction slavery state-sovereignty What authority of law authorized the States to abolish slave labor (held by Blacks/Colored) to our Persons of African descent, after 1865?
20-8198 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-06-02 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (negro, black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-7517 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-03-22 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments denationalization due-process ex-post-facto genocide jurisdiction slave-labels slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-1297 In Re Barbara Riley 2021-03-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-rights judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge slavery Is it constitutional for officers of the courts to be creating, selling and buying facially null and void judge's personal orders entered/issued witho…
20-6994 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-02-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law denationalization due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto slavery slavery-labels What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-5932 In Re Maurice Johnson 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights What branch of law authorized the states to apply abolished slaves labels (Negro, Black, Colored or African-American) to any African descent after 186…
19-7147 In Re Khayree Smith 2020-01-03 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment chattel-property chattel-slavery civil-rights constitutional-rights denationalization due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge racial-classification slavery slavery-abolition status What branch of law authorized States to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, Colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
19-6134 In Re Recardo Wimbush, et ux. 2019-10-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus jurisdiction slavery speedy-trial state-remedies void-judgment Whether the petitioner's judgment of conviction should be vacated for lack of jurisdiction under the U.S. Constitution
19-6014 In Re Lee R. Comier, Jr. 2019-09-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction reparations slavery 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus slavery state-law Whether the State of Arizona can legally apply a 'slave' label to a person of African descent after 1865, in violation of the 13th Amendment and due p…
18-8505 William L. Burrell, Jr. v. Patrick Loungo, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations convict-leasing human-trafficking judicial-immunity judicial-immunity-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 slavery Should judges be liable under section 1983 for intentional conduct characterized as judicial acts but prohibited by statute, caselaw, or criminal stat…
18-5580 In Re Camaron Thorn Kye-El 2018-08-14 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection human-rights involuntary-servitude jurisdiction legal-personhood property-rights property-status racial-classification racial-discrimination slavery standing Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the involuntary servitude of African Americans and other racial minorities