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25A809 Richard Saddler v. Matthew Hearne, et al. Missouri 2026-01-13 Application counsel-withdrawal due-process financial-disclosure missouri-supreme-court-rule pro-se state-court-procedure Question not identified.
25-584 Kenneth J. Rosellini v. Gary N. Wilcox, Individually, and as Judge, Superior Court, Bergen County, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-statute constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure younger-abstention 1) Is there a full and fair opportunity for a person to raise constitutional issues in in state court attorney ethics proceedings, so that Younger Abs…
25A503 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2025-11-03 Application due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure Whether a state court judge's secret, unilateral appointment of a successor judge without public record or independent oversight violates the Due Proc…
25-5845 Ohio, ex rel. Christopher Michael Williams v. Marilyn Zayas, Judge, First District Court of Appeals, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling judicial-immunity state-court-procedure QUESTION #1: Does a state Court Judge, commit a violation of a Defendants 14th Amendment rights to the United States Constitution for Due process, an…
25-5175 Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup…
24-7157 Benjamin Ritchie v. Indiana Indiana 2025-05-07 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule post-conviction-relief state-court-procedure Whether the Indiana Supreme Court is violating due process by foreclosing both State and Federal review by failing to allow the development of an inef…
24-6914 Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a reasonable jurist could debate the applicability of 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) when a state court rejects a claim on procedural grounds
24-6723 Carol Lynne Morgan v. Leby Sassya Ohio 2025-03-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-violations constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-remedy state-court-procedure Whether the United States Supreme Court should provide national safeguards against lower State Court systemic failures to comply with fundamental Cons…
24-632 Chinonyerem O. Osuagwu v. Leaticia C. Osuagwu New York 2024-12-10 Denied constitutional-rights due-process legal-document-signing power-of-attorney property-rights state-court-procedure Whether the New York State Court of Appeals erred in allowing a party to sign legal documents on behalf of another without power of attorney, potentia…
24-606 Christine A. Arakelian v. Ashley Pollard, et al. Virginia 2024-12-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Did the Prince William County Circuit Court and Supreme Court of Virginia err in dismissing Petitioner's case by violating her 14th Amendment rights a…
24-565 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-11-20 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure May a state court contravene its own state laws requiring legal fees and counsel representation, potentially violating the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
24-5746 In Re Trey Tarell Bradley 2024-10-11 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus self-representation state-court-procedure Can a State summarily deny a defendant's right to self-representation and subsequently bar a constitutional challenge to such because of the defendant…
24-281 Kishna S. Minor v. Anne M. Heishman, Commissioner of Accounts Virginia 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest due-process fiduciary-oversight judicial-impartiality quasi-judicial-officer state-court-procedure Whether a Commissioner of Accounts violates the Due Process Clause by acting as both an accuser and adjudicator in fiduciary oversight proceedings
24-5345 Benjamin-Macon Bell, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights-violation contract-law federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-immunity state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state judge can be held accountable for actions taken outside judicial capacity and without jurisdiction, and if judicial immunity applies i…
24A127 Arthur Lopez v. Perla Elias California 2024-08-05 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction final-judgment judicial-finality petition-for-review state-court-procedure supreme-court-review Whether a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review without an opinion constitutes a final judgment for purposes of federal appell…
24A126 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-05 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-discretion state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate Whether a state appellate court's denial of a petition for writ of mandate violates a petitioner's due process rights
24A125 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-05 Presumed Complete appellate-review judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate Whether a state appellate court can deny a pro se litigant's petition for writ of mandate without providing substantive reasoning
23-7842 Lateshia Patillo v. Iowa District Court for Scott County Iowa 2024-07-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief state-court-procedure substantive-harm Whether the Superior Court's procedures deprived the Citizen's constitutional rights of due process, equal protection, and injunctive relief
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j…
23-7450 Jihad A. Spann v. Missouri Missouri 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-abandonment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest post-conviction-proceeding post-conviction-relief rule-29.15 state-court state-court-procedure state-law May the due process clause require the State Courts to provide a full and fair post-conviction proceeding, if authorized by state law and as such cons…
23-7393 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Supreme Court of Virginia erred in denying Petitioner's U.S. Amendment …
23-963 Jean Dominique Morancy v. Sabrina Alex Salomon Florida 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction parental-rights per-curiam-affirmed racketeering standing state-court-procedure Does Florida's legal scheme violate constitutional rights by not allowing its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an …
23-902 Richard Duncan v. City of Mentor, Ohio Ohio 2024-02-21 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedy civil-procedure concurrent-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation mandamus-action property-taking state-court-procedure takings temporary-takings Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's newly established exhaustion of administrative remedy and ruling that 'if the court of common pleas had reversed the …
23-6115 Rakeem Barber v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-procedure state-courts Is Arizona's collateral review scheme adequate to vindicate the constitutional rights of non-capital defendants?
23A465 Peter Kleidman v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2023-11-22 Presumed Complete citation-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-precedent legal-citation state-court-procedure Whether a state court judicial system can constitutionally adopt a rule prohibiting judicial decisions from being cited as precedent in subsequent leg…
23-6071 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Whether the State violated Petitioner's substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5611 David Stephen Middleton v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2023-09-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction state-court-procedure state-courts In a post-conviction proceeding, was Mr. Middleton's right to due process violated when the Nevada state courts failed to consider exculpatory evidenc…
23-5388 Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application Whether McHam v. State, 404 S.C. 465, 746 S.E.2d 41 (2013), requires that the petitioner be allowed to file a subsequent PCR application
23-5366 Ricky Alan Deephouse v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence illegal-opinion-issuance judicial-review rule-of-law single-justice-opinion state-court-procedure state-power-abuse state-supreme-court wyoming-rules-of-evidence Did the state supreme court abuse/misuse its power, fail to follow the rule of law, enter a valid affirming of sentence and conviction by only one jus…
23-5306 Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr…
23-5222 Mustafa Ali v. Jeffrey Minehart, Judge, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-07-27 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus pcra-petition post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum void-for-vagueness Whether the PCRA Court abused its discretion in failing to convert Petitioner's State Habeas Petition into a PCRA Petition?
23-5040 Brala Beverly v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. California 2023-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights demurrer due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay police-misconduct police-report state-court-procedure Is it a violation of due process under the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution for courts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit by demurrer base…
22-889 Ryan Wollner v. Pearpop Inc. Delaware 2023-03-15 Denied access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-fairness property-rights right-to-counsel state-court-procedure Can a state court fundamentally alter its legal procedures to deprive a citizen of protected liberties and property without trial?
22-7005 Lino Alberto Chavez v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference anders-review anders-v-california federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-appeals post-conviction-relief smith-v-robbins state-court-procedure state-court-procedures Whether the district court must apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision that Anders review is not required in a Rule 32 proceeding
22-6677 Philip J. Vonville v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mistrial pennsylvania state-court-procedure state-courts Did state courts in Pennsylvania fail to address both Fifth and Fourteenth amendment (Due Process) violations of court record after a second trial end…
22-6380 Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Minnesota 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
22-5653 Deryl Dude Nelson v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-23 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-hearing fourth-amendment fraud judicial-misconduct probable-cause standing state-court-procedure warrant-fraud Did the state court err in not conducting an evidentiary hearing for petitioner's fraud upon the court and Fourth Amendment issue?
21-7340 Joseph Louis Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner's false carrier letter must be considered as the ultimate basis of a defendant's commission of a crime under 35 U.S.C. 35530
21-6923 Raymond V. DiGiacomo v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco California 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-1990 appellate-rights court-funding disability-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-review legal-access procedural-technicalities reasonable-accommodation state-court-procedure Whether a disabled litigant be allowed a reasonable accommodation to cover which requires one or more of said court's judges to lower their vocal tone…
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition Should the Court use its power to grant certiorari to a noncapital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling claim …
21-6828 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida Florida 2022-01-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure collateral-relief due-process equal-protection gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-procedure Does it tonsure (shear) due process & equal protection for the State (Florida) to summarily 'dismiss as unauthorized' a prison Petitioner's is State w…
21-6799 Erich William Norris v. Brook Forest Community Association, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation racial-inequality rule-of-law state-court-procedure state-remedy texas-constitution Does patently unequal, disparate state administration of the Rule of Law and failure to provide state remedy in strict accordance with the Texas Const…
21-6591 Daniel Spottsville v. Georgia Georgia 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdictional-limits standing state-court-jurisdiction state-court-procedure takings Whether the State of Georgia's denial of Petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari violates the Petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6511 Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel Kentucky 2021-12-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence domestic-violence-orders due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing state-court-procedure Whether State courts can ignore the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and deny hearings and equal protection
21-758 James P. Tatten v. LSF9 Master Participation Trust Colorado 2021-11-22 Denied 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment nonjudicial-foreclosure nonjudicial-hearing property-rights real-property state-court-procedure Whether the district court orders that authorized and approved a public trustee sale and transfer of the homeowner's real property, violated the due p…
21-6270 Catherine Pileggi v. Florida Florida 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief state-court state-court-procedure Whether the due process clause requires a state court to accept unrebutted factual allegations without an evidentiary hearing
21-6041 Eric Benson Skeens v. Indiana Indiana 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-procedure witness-testimony Whether the state courts erred when they allowed the state and its agents to tamper with, suppress, and withhold evidence favorable to the petitioner,…
21-5917 Darius Murphy v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-deference state-court-procedure statutory-deference Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied 28-U.S.C-2254(d)
21-5817 James E. Pearson v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming Tenth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 constitutional-standards federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel malloy-v-hogan miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-procedure supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Does the reasoning within Malloy v Hogan require specifically apply to claims of insufficiency or ineffective counsel, and were the federal habeas rev…
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va…
21-240 KWS Inc., a Member of the Thiele Group v. Eric Scalla Pennsylvania 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure default-judgment federal-removal federal-rights federal-statutory-right federal-supremacy procedural-prerequisites state-court-procedure state-procedure supremacy-clause Whether a state court may require a federal-court litigant that has exercised its federal statutory right of removal following the state court's entry…
21-228 Michael Murphy v. Richard Sarta, et al. Tennessee 2021-08-17 Denied access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge jury-trial state-court-procedure WHETHER THE TENNESSEE STATE TRIAL AND APPELLATE COURTS ARE USING A CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE STATUTE TO DENY CITIZENS SIMILARLY SITUATED HEREIN AN OPPORT…
21-5010 Robert R. Taylor v. Florida Florida 2021-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-procedure state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Under the constitutional provisions and guaranties of the 14th Amendment due process and equal application of the law
20-8260 Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court Whether Louisiana's post-conviction procedure violates due process
20-8139 Mark W. Blond, Jr. v. New York New York 2021-05-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus state-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a writ of error coram nobis without a hearing
20-1489 Russell Baldwin v. Suzanne Seida, et al. Oregon 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain lien lien-foreclosure state-court-procedure takings Did the state courts effectuate a taking of petitioner's attorney fees under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure Are Ferecal Couels Allowed fo Tatecfees with pendine Stete Couet PROCEEDINGS
20-7614 Gerald Von Tobel v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254(d)(1) criminal-trial federal-review habeas-corpus juror-misconduct mattox-remmer-test mattox-v-united-states presumption-of-prejudice remmer-v-united-states state-court-procedure Whether the Nevada state court's juror misconduct formulation, which conditions relief on juror misconduct being egregious to trigger the presumption …
20-7401 Ronald Brandon v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing state-court-procedure Whether the handling of the handling of the Old Faction Roll below the Abba, Lo filed, and the following additional questions defy the jurisdiction of…
20-7323 Salvatore J. Moretti v. Borough of Paramus, New Jersey New Jersey 2021-03-05 Dismissed IFP civil-rights criminal-history due-process judicial-misconduct military-control political-economics standing state-court-procedure surveillance takings veterans-exemption issue-being-raised
20-7135 Lamont R. Reed v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery discovery-hearing equitable-tolling habeas-corpus postconviction-petition postconviction-relief state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling Is the AEDPA one-year statute of limitations for filing a Federal Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus statutorily or equitably tolled when a State Co…
20-1007 Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. Ohio 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws?
20-6210 Deondre Arthur Staten v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied IFP federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case state-court-procedure state-court-procedures strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether federal court deference to state court summary disposition of habeas claims includes deference to state court's established process and proced…
20-589 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded?
20-6015 Lance R. Martin v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2020-10-14 Denied IFP administrative-appeal administrative-law civil-rights documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty state-court-procedure state-courts writ-of-mandate Whether the state courts wrongly misconstrued the writ of mandate for a habeas petition and denied the petitioner a hearing on his substantial claim f…
20-5977 Rebekah A. Atkins v. Sherry Brown, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights driver-license-suspension due-process judicial-misconduct speed-limit standing state-court-procedure traffic-enforcement traffic-violation Question not identified
20-5807 Geoffrey Graham v. Grady Perry, Warden, et al. Georgia 2020-09-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process indigent-prisoner judicial-discretion pro-se regulations standing state-court-procedure state-courts statutory-interpretation Is a pro se indigent prisoner held to a higher standard than state courts?
20-5566 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2020-09-02 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-counsel relief-denial standing state-court-procedure Can the systematic deprivation of counsel be used as the primary reason to deny post-conviction relief?
20-243 James L. Robison v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Florida 2020-08-31 Denied 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court procedural-fairness property-rights standing state-court-procedure state-courts Due-process
20-5024 Calvin Earl Brown v. Blair Williams, Clerk, Superior Court of North Carolina, Wake County Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing state-court-procedure state-official Whether it is unconstitutional that this pro se litigant (Petitioner) is denied the ability to be able to challenge the explicit correctness of a stat…
19-8472 Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure Did the federal court violate petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment rights
19-8018 Timothy Humphrey v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa-limitations aedpa-limitations-period antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus postconviction-relief properly-filed state-court state-court-procedure time-barred Whether an application for state postconviction relief is 'properly filed' within the meaning of Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act provisi…
19-7229 Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. Tennessee 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process Does the Petitioner have a property interest in Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the Right to relief secured by the 14…
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a state…
19-6777 Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS…
19-6765 Anthony Lee McNair v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-11-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court's dismissal of his motion under the All Writs Act
19-6622 Helene Tonique Williams v. Toni Preckwinkle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-discretion patent procedural-dismissal standing state-court-procedure takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the case against Pliner Porgue A Mhams, et al.
19-6516 Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to comply with heightened pleading standards
19-6245 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether incarcerated pro se litigants' custody, parental rights, property, and financial matters are at issue in a bona fide civil action seeking acce…
19-6206 Troy Davenport v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony fair-hearing newly-discovered-evidence photographic-identification pre-trial-hearing pre-trial-identification reasonable-juror reasonable-juror-standard standing state-court-procedure suggestive-identification Whether the state court employed procedures that did not adequately afford a full and fair hearing?
19-6212 Melissa Edwards v. Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-investigation attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process disability-rights due-process equal-protection government-transparency judicial-review judicial-transparency standing state-court-procedure Is it unconstitutional for a state court to deny relief without explaining why relief was denied?
19-6139 Jermaine Stevenson v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2019-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-court juvenile-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure transfer void-ab-initio waiver-hearing Has due process of law been violated where a child within the permanent custody and jurisdiction of the state juvenile court is charged as an adult in…
19-5503 Patricia Gill v. Mercy College, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech harassment judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the prosecutions undertaken by state officials were in bad faith with the intent to harass the defendant/Plaintiff and discourage her from exe…
19-5483 Grant Thomas McAdams v. Washington Washington 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-review constitutional-protection due-process federal-constitution insufficient-evidence intent-to-commit-theft post-conviction-relief pro-se pro-se-petition standing state-court-procedure washington-state Does the Due Process protection of the federal Constitution apply to Washington State's collateral review procedures?
18-1505 C. S. v. L. S. New Jersey 2019-06-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, …
18-9448 Darren Brady v. Sandra St. Pierre, et al. New Hampshire 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP city civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-denial due-process false-arrest government government-immunity impersonation-of-judges judicial-misconduct state-court-procedure state-law-officials witness-statements Whether impersonation of judges, government, city, state law officials is wrong and should not apply
18-1175 Colin Shillinglaw v. Baylor University, et al. Texas 2019-03-11 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption res-judicata state-court-procedure Whether the FAA preempts a conflicting state anti-SLAPP statute and precludes a state court from refusing either to compel arbitration or to stay liti…
18-8009 Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of…
18-7897 Larael Owens v. Maria Zucker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation contract-law due-process federal-question-jurisdiction immunity judicial-immunity standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal
18-889 Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber Illinois 2019-01-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural-due-process, of their federal-constitutionally-protected-liberty-interest in ha…
18-6730 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. California 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu…
18-638 Greg Anderson v. Gary Herbert, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy contract-law contractual-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge property-rights standing state-court-procedure void-judgment Is a judgment void on its face when a State Court steals a paid-for home at the motion to dismiss stage of the proceedings, under the guise that the o…
18-6625 Darnell Bernard Blagmon v. Virginia Virginia 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitution recantation state-court state-court-procedure witness-recantation writ-of-innocence Did the state court violate petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process by making this ruling without having held an evidentiary hearing?
18-594 Robert R. Snyder v. California California 2018-11-06 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation constitutional-deprivations due-process grievance-system prison prisoner-rights standing state-court state-court-procedure state-prison unsupervised-determinations Should this court grant review to remedy the conspicuous violations of due process
18-6244 Dennis Martin v. Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standing civil-rights due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations Whether the state court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely under the state's statute of limitations
18-5596 George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure Was the federal court required to accept petitioner's factual allegations as true when the state court made findings against the petitioner without a …
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…