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25-929 Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Denied Response Waived 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights Issue I: Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond for the express ed purpose of inhibiting appellants ' pursuit of their statutory righ…
24-6263 William S. Hurt, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-10 Denied IFP due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals post-conviction-dna statutory-rights I. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) violated Petitioner's statutory rights under the Oklahoma Post-Conviction DNA pursuant to Okl…
23-938 Cynthia Wheeler, et al. v. Orange County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-appearance civil-rights continuing-violation-doctrine emotional-distress intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress negligent-infliction-of-emotional-distress preemption statutory-rights tort tort-claims 1. Whether the "pure" form of "Continuing Violation Doctrine" should apply to Civil Rights and Tort Claims of Intentional and Negligent Infliction of …
23-679 Gene Rechtzigel v. Green Valley Development, LLP, et al. Minnesota 2023-12-22 Denied boundary-determination constitutional-rights due-process full-and-fair-trial judicial-procedure land-boundary property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-rights I. Did the State Courts of Minnesota deprive Petitioner of Liberty, Due Process of Law, United States Constitutional Rights, Minnesota Constitutional …
23-6300 Richard Paiva v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2023-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-protection due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration parole parole-eligibility sentence sentencing-procedure statutory-rights Are the protections of the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause triggered, when an incarcerated person has a statutory right to be parole-eligible during…
23-513 Randy Smith, Sheriff, et al. v. Jerry Rogers, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-functions government-officials harlow-v-fitzgerald legal-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-rights 1. What does it mean for a statutory or constitutional right to be "clearly established," beyond debate for purposes of § 1983 qualified immunity? 2.…
23-192 Aisha Trimble v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-employment initial-appointment merit-promotion open-competition preference-eligible statutory-rights veterans-preference 1) When a qualified preference eligible seeks initial appointment under an open competition announcement, does Congress allow federal agencies to d…
22-1153 Hector Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-grounds right-to-hearing statutory-rights a) Does a district court deny a federal prisoner the constitutional or statutory "right to be heard" by completely misreading or ignoring the "files a…
22-7108 Andrew Ryan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4241d appellate-review competency competency-determination due-process incompetent-defendant statutory-rights timing-violations united-states-v-olano waiver I. Whether under United States v. Olano an incompetent defendant waives appellate review of his statutory and due process right to a timely resolution…
22-738 Robert A. Mangine v. Shannon D. Withers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) 18-usc-3582 career-offender circuit-split habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice savings-clause sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-errors statutory-rights Whether and under what circumstances relief is available under § 2255(e) for federal prisoners challenging errors in their sentences; and Whether the…
22-6672 J. M. v. Oregon Department of Human Services Oregon 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure covid-19-restrictions due-process parental-rights remote-proceedings statutory-rights technical-interference technical-issues termination-of-parental-rights video-trial As a matter of state statutory law and federal due process, parents have the right to meaningfully participate in defending against petitions by the s…
22-6028 John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. Connecticut 2022-11-08 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction In 1992, the elderly parents created a Trust. Controversy arose when the petitioner had a child which extended the life of the trust to the year 2036.…
22-5307 Ronald C. Williams v. William Hutchings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied IFP civil-rights discriminatory-conduct fair-housing-act property-interests standing statutory-rights Question not identified.
21-6950 Stephen Rosa v. New York New York 2022-01-25 Denied IFP case-law civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process sentencing standing statutory-rights WAS THE COURTS IN VIOLATIONS FOR NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN CASE LAWS ? WAS PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS VIOLATED AND HIS RIGHTS UNDER D.L. § § 720.10 &…
20-8359 James Christopher Castle v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Relief is sought from void ab initio emergency judicial order which void issued are dedicated upon an operation by Eastern District of California Chie…
20-8276 Joel Barcelona v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-refusal civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disability-accommodation due-process healthcare-access medical-needs medical-rights statutory-rights CRUEL and UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, amend. VIII. WHETHER THE RESPONDENTS, JULIE L. JONES, et al., as medical officials violated a statutory or constitutiona…
20-8141 Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS ERRED AND ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DEPRIVING AND DENYING THE DEFENDANT OF HIS STATUTORY RIGHTS TO DNA TESTING TO A CHARG…
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights 1. Does a "comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right " under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) [42 U.S.C. 12101 e…
20-7029 Odell Kinard, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights continuance multi-defendant severance sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-rights trial-delay Does Petitioner sacrifice his Sixth Amendment and statutory rights to a speedy trial by the District Court's repeated denial of his motion to sever hi…
20-6629 Jane Doe v. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-cases anonymity constitutional-rights court-cases disability-rights due-process government-defendant mental-illness name-redaction statutory-rights 1. Should mentally ill individuals be automatically granted name redaction in administrative and court cases, so that they will be able to vindicate…
20-211 Barry Rosen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response Waived airspace-system civil-procedure due-process injury-in-fact national-airspace-system pro-se-litigant public-use-airport separation-of-powers standing statutory-rights Federally-certificated Pro Se pilot, and aircraft owner, domiciled at a federally-funded airport, was denied standing by both the District Court and N…
20-3 Terry Balvin v. Rain and Hail, LLC Eighth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appraised-production arbitration arbitration-authority crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance-act good-farming-practices policy-interpretation statutory-rights The questions presented for the Supreme Court concern the authority of a private arbitrator in a crop insurance dispute, including whether a private a…
19-8729 Maurice Gilbert v. Isabel Barrios-Gilbert California 2020-06-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law liberty notice notice-requirements statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Under Family Law & the laws of California is Freedom from Arbitrary Adjudicative Procedures a substantive element of one's Liberty under Federal La…
19-7730 Elizabeth Alexander v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination hostile-work-environment human-rights maryland-law montgomery-county montgomery-county-md-code-of-human-rights racial-discrimination retaliation statutory-rights title-vii Me FEDERAL COURT IN GREENBELT, MD AND THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT IN RICHMOND VA, DENIED MY STATUTORY RIGHTS ASSERTED UNDER BOTH TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RI…
19-689 Mark Chapman, et al. v. ACE American Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied certification civil-procedure duty-to-defend insurance-coverage statutory-interpretation statutory-rights substance-abuse summary-judgment 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by requiring allegations not contained in Chapter 397 and by denying petitioners' motion to cert…
19-6615 Jayvonne Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-rights appellate-waiver collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-agreements statutory-entitlement statutory-rights Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process set forth in Section 8-43-501, et seq. of the Colorado Revised Statutes deprives claimants of th…
19-5513 Charles Head v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari I what remedies is available for petitioner when Court appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in deference to the pe…
19-5013 Hugo Santana-Dones v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-circuit-review intercept-standard necessity standard-of-review statutory-burden statutory-rights warrant-necessity wire-communications wiretap 1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The First Circuit's Standard Of Review On The "Necessity" Of A Warrant To Intercept Wire Comm…
18-9672 Jill Andras LeBlanc v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-procedure statutory-rights The right to appeal a criminal sentence is a statutory entitlement under 18 U.S.C. § 3742. But in many federal jurisdictions—including the Eastern Dis…
18-9580 Bobby Ray Devers v. Iowa Iowa 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-procedure post-conviction-relief pro-se-claims procedural-due-process state-public-defender-system statutory-rights summary-judgment uniform-procedure Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process are violated by the denial of participation in the statutory right to a uniform post …
18-1395 Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-intervention civil-rights consent-decree deception due-process intervention intervention-motion misrepresentation rule-24 statutory-rights timeliness timely-filing timely-intervention unrebutted-facts Whether a motion to intervene is timely when it is filed shortly after a would-be intervenor learns that the existing parties misrepresented that the …
18-9150 Peter Victor Ayika v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial [1]Whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal where petitioner's rights to Sixth Amendmen…
18-8829 Leonid Djuga, aka Leonid Dzhuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining statutory-rights Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
18-8599 Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING…
18-750 JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. Federal Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of…