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25-6800 In Re Felix Verdejo-Sanchez 2026-02-12 Pending IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-error due-process jurisdictional-defect mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may continue adjudicating the merits of a criminal appeal without first verifying, sua sponte, the existence of …
25-6758 Quintin Washington v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WHEN A COURT LACKS SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION, PROCEEDINGS ARE VOID AB INITIO. ARE THE CONVICTIONS/SENTENCES AGAINST MR. WASHINGTON VOID BECAUSE T…
25-6751 Jeffrey W. Young, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP appellate-review controlled-substances drug-distribution medical-practice regulatory-definition subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower federal court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the defendant, who was an authorized practitioner with the authority to admini…
25-934 Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. First Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in…
25-922 Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction A. Whether certiorari should be granted to review the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims for …
25A876 Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-02-04 Application disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25A842 Church of the Gardens, et al. v. Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Application appellate-review article-iii constitutional-limits judicial-power status-quo subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25A838 United States v. Jason Robert Hopson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-21 Application felony-assault indian-country jury-instruction lesser-included-offense major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-6614 In Re Joey Lamont Brunson 2026-01-20 Pending IFP due-process fifth-amendment rule-12 subject-matter-jurisdiction title-iii wiretap-evidence 1. ) WAS THE DISTRICT COURT'S ASSERTION OF "SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION" VALID AFTER JURISDICTION WAS CHALLENGED UNDER F.R.CR.P. RULE 12(b)(2), REGARD…
25-6502 Donald Wayne Barksdale v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP corporate-fraud due-process habeas-corpus human-rights legal-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Corporate State of Virginia is the free and well Trust Husband KOA medium de itlecdace with the CA NVerteccal Yexses ) few moved: JJ Ai S …
25-6508 In Re Angeliina L. Lawson 2026-01-07 Pending IFP ada-protections due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power 1. Whether the Supreme Court should exercise its supervisory power under Rule 20 and the All Writs Act to restrain a state judge who continues to act …
25-781 Donald Wenger v. James T. Warren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending article-i-section-8 federal-preemption individual-liability subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformed-services-act veterans-judicial-review-act 1. Whether state judges are BOUND by the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) Pub. Law 97-252 (1982) pursuant to Article I §…
25-745 Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. Tennessee 2025-12-23 Pending Response Waived appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and …
25-6395 In Re Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez 2025-12-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-status writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether the Court of Appeals violated its constitutional duty by failing to determine the absence of federal subject-matter jurisdiction after the…
25-6345 Felix Verdejo-Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce pro-se-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit deny the Petitioner his motion pro se requesting to invoke the supervisory power of the Court to verify…
25-661 Erik Blecher, et al. v. The Holy See, aka The Apostolic See Second Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending discretionary-function foreign-sovereign-immunities-act mandatory-policy sexual-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether the FSIA's discretionary-function exclusion, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(5)(A), denies federal subject matter jurisdiction for a tort claim that alleg…
25-6298 Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-injury federal-claims-court fifth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tucker-act 1. Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims erred in dismissing Polinski v. United States, Case No. 24-1810, for lack of subject matter juris…
25-6278 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-argument ex-post-facto fifth-circuit peugh-v-united-states subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-booker Did the fifth Circuit have subject matter jurisdiction on direct appeal to consider an ex post facto constitutional argument that was never raised. D…
25-635 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review? 2. Whether the United S…
25-6211 In Re Jordan Monroe 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires QUESTION (1) Where a Court Of Appeals fails or refuses to comply with BLACK LETTER LAW--28 U.S.C. §2253—which is a statute that was duly enacted by …
25-595 James William Hall v. Anthony Board, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure death-threats judicial-error subject-matter-jurisdiction I Now comes petitioner James William Hall. On September 20, 2023, a complaint was filed in the Barberton Municipal Court by plaintiff Anthony Board Sr…
25-596 Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion rule-60b sanctions-award subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) When a district court is presented with a motion for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), does it abuse its discretio…
25-6191 Duane E. Adams v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court WAS ADAMS ' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN THE TRIAL COURT CONDUCTED A TRIAL AND ENTERED A JUDGMENT, WITHOUT HAVING SUBJECT MATTE…
25-6193 In Re Gerald Nelson 2025-11-21 Dismissed IFP complete-preemption federal-removal labor-management-relations-act original-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus This dispute concerns original jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction conferred over this action, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1331, because Pl…
25-6194 Douglas P. Pasquinzo v. Montana Montana 2025-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights montana-law ninth-circuit procedural-due-process prosecutorial-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Where the State^Courts continue to disobey the Laws and Rulescof Procedure, and allow County Prosecutors to Amend complaints, v.-i without leave …
25-6184 Albert Jackson v. Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review longshore-act subject-matter-jurisdiction I. When an Administrative law Judge ("ALJ ") issued orders to review, modify and terminate a Longshore Harbor Worker 's Act (LHWCA) claim previously…
25-6154 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction I-(a) Did the court of appeals err in holding that the lower court violated Article 20, Part First, of the New Hampshire Constitution, which the parti…
25-6128 In Re Joseph Cammarata 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process judicial-process mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Due Process Clause and the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), by refusing for over eight mo…
25-6130 Eric Drake v. Texas Texas 2025-11-14 Denied IFP deferred-probation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the State's refusal to allow out of state travel for life-saving medical treatment to a defendant on deferred probation violates the Eighth an…
25A569 Eric Drake v. Texas Texas 2025-11-14 Application deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment probation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court's deferred probation order violates due process and equal protection when imposed by a judge lacking subject-matter jurisdiction
25-6098 Elston Bone v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-challenge intermediate-scrutiny new-york-rifle-bruen state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Federal District Court have subject matter jurisdiction, over a Plaintiff who brings a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, and presents an indepen…
25A527 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court has proper subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case when the defendant challenges the court's statutory au…
25A528 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Application breach-of-warranty constitutional-authority election-administration election-contract subject-matter-jurisdiction voting-systems Whether a county election board and county commissioners have standing to bring a breach of contract claim against a voting machine vendor for alleged…
25-544 May Yan Chen, dba Ability Customs Broker v. Ameriway Corporation Second Circuit 2025-11-05 Rehearing ancillary-jurisdiction common-nucleus mandamus-review rico-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction 1. Whether the district court had exceeded its subject-matter jurisdiction when it exercised ancillary supplemental jurisdiction over a third-party co…
25-463 Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Three, LLC v. Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Two, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-sale good-faith-purchaser rooker-feldman subject-matter-jurisdiction ucc-sale There are two issues presented for review: (1) whether the Bankruptcy Court has subject matter jurisdiction over a bankruptcy petition under 28 U.S.C…
25-5782 In Re Ramsey E. Clayter 2025-10-02 Denied IFP due-process ineffective-assistance involuntary-servitude probable-cause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether court-appointed, counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment where counsel (a) sought to secure a guilty plea agains…
25-340 Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court docket should be sealed due to improper purposes and privacy expectations under Nixon v. Warner Communications precedent
25-330 Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 sui…
25-5692 Pete Szmurlo v. TK Elevator Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied IFP anti-injunction-act appellate-review due-process rule-65 subject-matter-jurisdiction tro-duration Whether a temporary restraining order (TRO) exceeding 14 days becomes a de facto preliminary injunction requiring immediate appellate review under Sam…
25-323 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii Whether subject matter jurisdiction was properly invoked for alleged Title VII and 1983 violations involving tax fraud, retaliation, and concealment o…
25-5595 Dina Sarkisova v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process federal-removal frivolous-appeal ninth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights by summarily dismissing her appeal as frivolous without addressing…
25-258 Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Michigan 2025-09-05 Denied Response Waived civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Are unconstitutional laws void ab initio requiring retrospective treatment of opinions affecting fundamental rights?
25A262 Vincent Cannady v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n…
25-5492 Shedrick Givens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2025-08-28 Denied IFP bill-of-information constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment grand-jury subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Whether the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction and whether the State violated the petitioner's fundamental rights under the Thirteenth and…
25-5457 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-08-25 Dismissed IFP appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a conflict exists between 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and procedural jurisdictional standards for tolerable collateral jeopardy subject-matter juri…
25-5445 Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes a court's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and barred from 2254 Habeas Corpus review for failure to…
25A188 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete bank-fraud constitutional-interpretation ex-post-facto financial-institution prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits prosecuting a defendant under an expanded statutory definition of 'financial institution' that did not exis…
25-169 Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response Waived advisory-opinion alternative-ruling appellate-review dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court retains power to issue an alternative decision on the merits after dismissing a case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction,…
25-5321 Jeffrey Ricardo Wimberly v. Michigan Michigan 2025-08-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-violation equitable-tolling jurisdictional-challenge michigan-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a lower court lose subject-matter jurisdiction when an equitably tolled appeal is pending in a higher court, and did the Michigan Supreme Court's…
25-5271 Soleiman Mobarak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-law ex-post-facto presumption-of-innocence subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Actual Innocence Exception applies to non-statutory offenses and whether a void state court judgment triggers AEDPA filing deadlines
25-5284 Bobbie Ray Edwards v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix subject-matter-jurisdiction vi-amendment Whether Petitioner's due process claim can be denied under 28 U.S.C. 2241 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Jones v. Hendrix
25-134 Jannie Robinson Tisdell v. Elizabeth Bryne Hogan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, City of St. Louis, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-08-04 Dismissed bankruptcy-jurisdiction core-bankruptcy-estate due-process fraud-debt property-dispute subject-matter-jurisdiction May a State Court have subject matter jurisdiction to hear a case over a property dispute if creditor subsequently filed a core proof of claim in an a…
25-5248 In Re Quay Phipps 2025-07-31 Denied IFP article-i-powers congressional-power constitutional-interpretation habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Is petitioner entitled to immediate habeas corpus relief due to alleged lack of congressional jurisdiction under Article I, Section 8?
25-5185 George W. Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-07-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a trial court's failure to address subject matter jurisdiction or exercise of discretion to ignore jurisdictional challenges violates due proc…
25-5192 John Patrick Fletcher v. Bryan Coleman, Warden Colorado 2025-07-24 Denied IFP illegal-seizure judicial-process kidnapping-statute law-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction warrant-clause Whether law enforcement can use judicial acts to further an illegal seizure and whether courts possess subject matter jurisdiction over such acts
25A103 National Institutes of Health, et al. v. American Public Health Association, et al. First Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law agency-discretion grant-termination judicial-review research-funding subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal agencies have unreviewable discretion to terminate scientific research grants without providing specific justification or adhering to …
25A49 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court subject-matter-jurisdiction title-dispute Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections require a jury trial in state probate court proceedings involving title disputes when funda…
25-5028 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bipartisan-safer-communities-act criminal-procedure domestic-violence federal-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the relationships in 18 USC §921(a)(33)(A) defining misdemeanor crime of domestic violence serve jurisdictional and substantive purposes under…
25-4 Preston L. Marshall, Individually and as Co-Trustee of the Peroxisome Trust v. Stephen D. Cook, as Co-Trustee of The Marshall Heritage Foundation and Marshall Legacy Foundation Fifth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied citizenship-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts real-party-controversy subject-matter-jurisdiction trustees Whether diversity jurisdiction may be created by having one diverse co-trustee bring the lawsuit strategically excluding all nondiverse co-trustees, o…
24-7505 Donald Evans v. Jasen Bohinski, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether consecutive sentences for two alternative pleadings of the same aggravated assault statute violate double jeopardy principles, and whether the…
24-7506 Allan Douglas Wilson v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP defamation-claim federal-tort-claims-act official-conduct removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction westfall-act Whether a federal district court may dismiss a defamation case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction after removal under the Westfall Act, rather th…
24-7455 Garland E. Williams v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-injury due-process frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal statute precludes procedural redress of a timely invoked constitutional injury, and whether a district court's dismissal of a compla…
24-1286 Jeffrey Buford v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-authority due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has original jurisdiction when a state is a party to the case and a citizen of another state is involved
24A1246 Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-17 Presumed Complete appeal-deadline federal-rules-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction timely-filing Whether a federal court can dismiss an appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed well beyond the prescribed 60-d…
24A1203 Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. First Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court exceeded its Article III jurisdiction by enjoining the Executive Branch's internal workforce management decisions at the De…
24-1208 Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case meets the substantiality threshold for federal question jurisdiction under …
24-7258 In Re Paul Kenneth Cromar 2025-05-21 Denied IFP 16th-amendment constitutional-authority federal-district-court income-tax non-apportioned-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the federal district court possess subject-matter jurisdiction to conduct tax trials and enforce IRS assessments of a non-apportioned direct tax …
24-1179 United States, ex rel. Ganesa Rosales, et al. v. Amedisys North Carolina, L.L.C., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied false-claims-act federal-civil-procedure first-to-file-rule government-intervention qui-tam subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an action asserting False Claims Act claims is a 'related action' under the First to File rule when the government declines intervention and t…
24-7231 Christian Leonardo Franco Posligua v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-enforcement extraterritorial-statute guilty-plea maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction For purposes of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), does a district court have authority to make its 'preliminary' determination of 'jurisd…
24-7214 Anthony J. Woods v. N'Gai Smith Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied IFP article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process hostile-work-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether Anthony J. Woods had Article III Standing to petition the court to redress his grievances under the U.S. Constitution 1S* Amendment?
24-1135 Sara González Flavell v. Jim Young Kim, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process functional-immunity international-law judicial-discretion subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in determining subject-matter jurisdiction and creating a new absolute immunity for IBRD offic…
24-1126 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Relisted (2) district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after a judgment's expiration without new claims…
24-1117 Petroquímica de Venezuela, S.A. v. Isaac Industries, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense foreign-sovereign-immunities-act responsive-pleading sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-immunity Whether a plaintiff suing a foreign state bears the burden of proving an exception to sovereign immunity or if the foreign-state defendant must dispro…
24-1094 Louis B. Antonacci v. Rahm Emanuel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response Waived cyberespionage due-process protected-speech racketeering rico-enterprise subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner Antonacci has properly alleged that Respondents are architects of a criminal RICO enterprise engaged in racketeering activity again…
24-6997 Eric Ellis v. Cargill Meat Solutions, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP article-III mootness rule-68 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tender Whether a random mailing of a check (unconditional tender) that is not linked to a Rule 68 offer can rob a plaintiff of Article III standing effective…
24-6986 Michele Blakely v. CarMax Auto Superstores, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied IFP citizenship-determination diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act jurisdictional-amount removal-action subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal district courts have subject matter jurisdiction in removal actions involving multiple defendants and arbitration awards when citizens…
24-6967 Robert Lee Crider v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims ex-post-facto felony-conviction habitual-criminal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in denying Crider's Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misunderstanding his constitutional claims and ap…
24-6921 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether sovereign immunity implicates subject-matter jurisdiction such that it may be resolved through factual challenges under Federal Rule of Civil …
24-6917 Edmond Stanley Adams, III v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the S.C. Supreme Court erred by barring Petitioners' Federal Factual predicate that he was denied effective assistance of counsel
24-6889 Benjamin LaCount, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act due-process judicial-review subject-matter-jurisdiction va-procedural-violations veterans-judicial-review-act Whether the Veterans' Judicial Review Act (VJRA) bars judicial review of procedural due process and APA violations by the Department of Veterans Affai…
24-1013 In Re Louis B. Antonacci 2025-03-21 Dismissed Response Waived bar-admission civil-procedure due-process judicial-review racketeering subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fourth Circuit must exercise jurisdiction and rule on Antonacci's appeals involving RICO claims and procedural challenges
24-6780 Earl Felton Crago, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2025-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Court has jurisdiction to hear successive petitions for writ of habeas corpus when state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction o…
24-978 Kristopher Paul Hochendoner v. Michael J. King, Executor of the Estate of James E. King Pennsylvania 2025-03-12 Denied default-notice due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights sheriff-sale subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to set aside a sheriff's sale due to …
24-6619 Mutaz Al Shara v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure due-process government-accountability injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Were the judicial proceedings fundamentally unfair due to alleged judicial misconduct and procedural irregularities in an injunctive relief case invol…
24-6552 In Re Kevin Othell La Ferney 2025-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge due-process judicial-review state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court can arbitrarily deprive a defendant of constitutional rights by maintaining a conviction without subject matter jurisdiction
24-849 Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased, et al. v. The Boeing Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived admiralty-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction federal-court maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction wrongful-death Whether a federal court can have exclusive admiralty jurisdiction over a claim when a non-admiralty state court would have concurrent jurisdiction ove…
24-6535 Christopher Vitti v. Kevin Brian Jones, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court equitable-remedy statute-extension subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tort-claim Did the ninth district court error in finding that there's no equitable remedy to make an extension of statute, and can the Supreme Court under 28 U.S…
24-6502 Willie Bandy v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of Treasury, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process pro-se-plaintiff service-of-process stimulus-check subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether due process is violated when United States Marshals fail to properly serve a complaint, when the IRS does not issue a stimulus check, or when …
24-819 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-03 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau…
24A748 Meng Uoy Chang v. David Rout, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice diversity-jurisdiction federal-question pleading-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts can dismiss a civil complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when a plaintiff fails to adequately plead a basis for di…
24-6307 In Re Bryan Lee Gregory 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States federal court system has a constitutional duty to review and reach the merits of a subject matter jurisdiction challenge in …
24-6270 Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, Warden Montana 2025-01-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Montana Statute MCA (46-22-101) violates due process and equal protection when subject matter jurisdiction is challenged in sentencing
24-722 Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. Tennessee 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent Whether Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court constitutes a structural constitutional violation under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces…
24A673 Dessie Andrews v. Alma Adams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete article-iii congressional-power due-process sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff can establish Article III standing to challenge long-standing congressional actions through generalized grievances about constitut…
24A678 Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation federal-removal labor-management-act pro-se-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts improperly exercised subject matter jurisdiction in a labor dispute involving a collective bargaining agreement and duty of fai…
24-6246 Benny Roe Stewart v. Jim Salmonsen, Warden Montana 2025-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Montana Statute M.C.A. (46-22-101) violates constitutional due process and equal protection when subject matter jurisdiction is challenged
24-715 Thomas Shands v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2025-01-03 Denied Response Waived internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court whistleblower-award Whether the IRS can deprive the United States Tax Court of subject matter jurisdiction by claiming it took no action on a whistleblower award and deny…
24-6217 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Colgate Palmolive Co., et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-court patent-application procedural-action state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to order a state court judge's jurisdiction and adjudge a patent application's procedural acti…
24-682 Dario Politella, et al. v. Windham Southeast School District, et al. Vermont 2024-12-26 Denied Response Waived covered-countermeasure emergency-use immunity preemption public-health subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Vermont Supreme Court has improperly construed the Public Readiness and Preparedness Act's (PREPA) immunity provisions beyond Congressiona…
24-6085 Tanya Tyson v. Madelyn Winningham, et al. Oklahoma 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-claim insurance-contract interlocutory-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Supreme Court err in dismissing the case for lack of an appealable order and denying the right to appeal despite alleged fraud and jurisdictio…
24A537 Sara González Flavell v. Jim Young Kim, et al. District of Columbia 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete articles-of-association due-process first-amendment functional-immunity international-organization subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts can exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over claims involving international organization officials' functional immunity under …
24-5957 Jeramy Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Do district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence in the absence of a showing that the defendant committed an offense …
24-510 Kevin Abbey, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied federal-tort-claims-act misrepresentation negligence-claims sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction toxic-exposure Whether Petitioners' negligence claims 'aris[e] out of … misrepresentation,' and thus are barred by section 2680(h) of the FTCA, even though Petitione…
24-5918 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights federal-procedure judicial-review rule-59-motion rule-60-motion subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to order relief from a judgment under Rule 60(b)(4) and Rule 59(e), and whether such actions v…
24-5839 Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d…
24-470 Michelle R. Gilbank v. Wood County Department of Human Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Amici (3) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-claims rooker-feldman-doctrine state-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the Rooker-Feldman doctrine extend to bar federal claims for damages where the state judgment neither awarded nor denied damages, meaning the f…
24-456 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Beth Bacher, Representative for Paul Bacher, Deceased, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied class-action-fairness-act federal-removal mass-action statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-consolidation Whether plaintiffs' intent matters in assessing if plaintiffs have 'proposed' a joint trial of the claims of 100 or more persons pursuant to 28 U.S.C.…
24A346 Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., Not Individually but Solely as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-test subject-matter-jurisdiction trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity Whether a passive trustee's citizenship controls diversity jurisdiction under Navarro when the trustee lacks real and substantial control over the uni…
24A339 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-review due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court is required to review subject-matter jurisdiction sua sponte when clear jurisdictional defects exist in lower court proceedi…
24-375 Leonard Carroll, et ux. v. Kendra Ross Fourth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process private-citizen-standing service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a private citizen has standing to bring a claim in federal court when alleging misconduct by a law firm and challenging court jurisdiction bas…
24-5676 Henry Altamirano v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus limitation-period subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits despite filing a federal habeas petition after the…
24A309 Patricia Weiss v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-01 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge declaratory-decree judicial-abstention subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 1996 amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 permits federal district courts to issue a declaratory decree against a state judge challenging the con…
24-343 Robert H. Aland v. Department of the Interior, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment-act federal-agency-appointment statutory-qualifications subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court has standing and subject matter jurisdiction to hear a challenge to a federal agency director's appointment that alle…
24-5648 Aramian Scott v. Illinois Illinois 2024-09-26 Denied IFP aggravating-factor constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentence-enhancement subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a 25-year sentence enhancement is void due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction, insufficient notice, and failure to submit an aggravating f…
24-5607 Brandon Williams v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2024-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process false-arrest probable-cause speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Supreme Court of North Carolina err in not addressing issues surrounding false arrest, due process violations, and potential constitutional in…
24-5609 In Re Babubhai Patel 2024-09-23 Dismissed IFP 2255-motion circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion in holding that Mr. Patel's 2255 Motion to Vacate was properly filed and within the district court's j…
24-322 Kristin Bausch v. Jacob Frost, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived accardi-doctrine agency-regulations appellate-procedure due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction turner-rogers-hearing Whether the Seventh Circuit lacked subject matter jurisdiction due to failure to conduct a mandatory Turner v. Rogers hearing and potential due proces…
24-5564 Marlene Fearing v. University of Minnesota Medical Center, aka M Health Fairview Clinics, et al. Minnesota 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process medical-malpractice obstruction-of-justice res-ipsa-loquitur subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the state court lose subject matter jurisdiction by violating state and federal laws and committing obstruction of justice?
24-5539 Muna Malvin Whitfield v. Fredericka F. Whitfield, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-12 Denied IFP due-process estate-litigation fiduciary-duty personal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court violated due process by dismissing the complaint and overlooking critical factual allegations related to the decedent's es…
24-277 Shari Mayer Borochov, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. District of Columbia 2024-09-11 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) foreign-sovereign-immunities-act grievous-injuries material-support subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorism-exception terrorist-attack Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's terrorism exception extends jurisdiction to claims arising from a foreign state's material support for …
24-242 In Re Peter K. Stern 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) congressional-intent fifth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction and whether prosecutorial misconduct and judicial bias warrant reversal of the petitione…
24-215 Jamus Bryant v. Bonnie Heather McLean, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response Waived due-process fundamental-parental-rights jurisdiction-fraud national-security-act subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly dismissed claims of fraudulently procured jurisdiction and applied Younger abstention to preclude review of a par…
24A212 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federalism state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction workers-compensation Whether federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction may entertain state law workers' compensation claims that a state legislature has mandated mu…
24-5371 In Re Eric Martin Matthews 2024-08-22 Denied IFP aedpa-constitutionality appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Anti-Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) remains constitutional after Jones v. Hendrix and its impact on subject matter jurisdiction and p…
24-5374 Latressa Railback v. City of Des Moines, Iowa, et al. Iowa 2024-08-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Iowa District Court had proper subject matter jurisdiction and authority to preside over a case involving alleged constitutional rights vi…
24-190 Terri L. Stiles, et al. v. John Clifford, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response Waived due-process extrinsic-fraud permanent-injunction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a court may selectively apply the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to preclude federal subject matter jurisdiction by excluding from consideration a ju…
24-5357 Peter Mule v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether a court's judgment is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) when jurisdiction is lacking or improperly exercised
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…
24-153 James W. Tindall v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain national-security subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause Whether the lower courts improperly dismissed a takings claim involving property seized for national security purposes without providing just compensa…
24-129 Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, et al. v. Smithsonian Institution District of Columbia 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing benin-bronzes enslaved-africans ethical-return-policy long-term-loan mootness public-hearing-process repatriation smithsonian-institution subject-matter-jurisdiction title-transfer Whether descendants of enslaved Africans in the Un Whether the courts below improperly held the matte Whether subject matter jurisdiction exists over the Smithsonian Institution's repatriation of artworks to a foreign state under an Ethical Return poli…
24-133 Justin G. Dart v. Katrina Ahrens, as Independent Executor of the Estate of Lorne Ahrens, Deceased Texas 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection parentage-adjudication personal-jurisdiction posthumous-parentage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-uniform-parentage-act uniform-parentage-act Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause permit a court to deny a child the right to adjudicate his rights under the Texas Uniform Pare…
24A107 Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1443 civil-rights remand removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction to review a remand order under 28 U.S.C. §1443 involving a civil rights removal proceeding
24-91 Targeted Justice, Incorporated, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process injunctive-relief national-security redress-mechanism standing subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorist-watchlist Whether this Court's holding in Fed. Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre warrants reversal of the court of appeals' decision affirming the district court…
24-79 James W. A. Jackson v. Kelly K. Fitzgerald Rhode Island 2024-07-25 Denied child-custody due-process evidentiary-hearing hcch-1996 international-treaty personal-jurisdiction simultaneous-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction uccjea Does a defense of UCCJEA 'Simultaneous Proceedings' become moot when one and not all proceedings is dismissed?
24A45 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete civil-rights declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment pro-se-litigation state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a pro se litigant from seeking injunctive and monetary relief against a state court for alleged constitutional vio…
24A49 Shari Mayer Borochov, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete extrajudicial-killing foreign-sovereign-immunities-act material-support state-sponsored-terrorism subject-matter-jurisdiction terrorism-exception Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's terrorism exception requires an actual death to establish subject-matter jurisdiction for claims involv…
24-27 Next Generation Technology, Inc., et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure de-novo-review district-court federal-magistrates-act federal-procedure judicial-review magistrate-judge subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-objections Waiver-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction
23-1362 Robert Kreb v. Integra Aviation, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act appointments-clause article-iii due-process freedom-of-information-act privacy-act sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-protection Is it appropriate for courts to sua sponte dismiss actions for want of subject matter jurisdiction despite Congress' intent to allow enforcement of es…
23-1356 Justin K. Holder v. Mark Duvall Thomas Fourth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute injunctive-relief pro-se standing sua-sponte subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the District Court judge error in law, or abuse his discretion when he sua sponte dismissed Petitioner's pro se complaint for lack of subject matt…
23-1339 Frank R. DiFranco v. Patricia M. Fallon, Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Illinois 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived election-contest election-law mandatory-or-directory mode-of-procedure state-court statutory-deadlines statutory-election-contest statutory-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-party vote-counting Whether a State Court has subject matter jurisdiction in a special statutory election contest proceeding
23-1317 Jean Dufort Baptichon v. Department of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer venue venue-transfer Personal-jurisdiction-versus-forum-non-conveniens
23-1322 James W. Tindall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-record agency-record discovery judicial-precedent standard-of-review stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-review whistleblower whistleblower-claim Whether this dispute is even ripe for review by the Supreme Court
23-1304 Edward L. Clark, Jr. v. Deborah L. Clark California 2024-06-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-authority legal-procedure rule-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction summons void-judgment Question not identified
23-1294 Debra A. Charles v. Anna-Jonesboro National Bank, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process private-right-of-action rooker-feldman-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Charles fails to state a cause of action upon which relief can be granted?
23A1031 Ryan Welter v. Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Company, dba Coverys, et al. First Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1446 federal-question removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction subsequent-paper timeliness Whether a federal district court may retain jurisdiction over a case removed beyond the 30-day statutory window when the defendants were aware of fede…
23-7494 Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. Ohio 2024-05-17 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness Is it repugnant to convict a US citizen for innocent acts not criminalized by statute?
23-7428 Robert Pann v. Julian Ulmer Florida 2024-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment default-judgment due-process garnishment jurisdiction notice-requirement procedural-due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-garnishment Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights were violated when: (A) the respondent provided only 16 hours' notice for …
23-1201 CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited, et al. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sover…
23A998 Row 1 Inc., dba Regenative Labs v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure cms-rulemaking medical-products medicare-appeals notice-and-comment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a medical products manufacturer without direct access to Medicare appeals can challenge agency rulemaking that effectively denies reimbursemen…
23-7397 Diamond L. Barnes v. Felicia Adkins, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure concealed-carry constitutional-right due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure procedural-rule second-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
23-7399 In Re Gilbert Martinez 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure due-process enlargement-of-time judicial-discretion recusal recusal-standard rule-60-relief social-security-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Circuit court abused its discretion
23-7382 In Re Arthur Jones 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to issue the writ of mandamus
23-1192 Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First and/or Eighth Amendments
23-7373 Giovanni DePalma v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process emergency-petition first-amendment free-speech standing subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Petitioner is foreclosed from presenting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction and double jeopardy claim
23-1173 April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowners Association Virginia 2024-05-01 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdiction…
23-1176 Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals and district court made erroneous judgments in sua sponte dismissing the complainant's cause of action for lack of subjec…
23-1139 John F. Gallagher v. Northampton County Revenue Appeals Board, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction property-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tax-injunction-act Whether federal subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1331 is barred by the Tax Injunction Act or the doctrine of comity for claims challenging…
23-7271 Arthur Lomax v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment preliminary-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state's 'Bill of Rights' requiring felony prosecution only by indictment is consistent with the state's 'uniformity of laws clause' and the …
23-7279 Charles K. Wallace v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-04-19 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP authentication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-filings fraud habeas-corpus jury-trial standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the U.S. Department of Justice under a duty to enforce accurate federal court filings therein federal district courts to comply with 18 U.S.C. §102…
23-7281 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1446 civil-procedure discretion federal-jurisdiction remand remand-petition removal removal-statute state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction after the removal to the District Court?
23-1129 Richard Roche v. LARC, Inc., aka Lee Association for Remarkable Citizens, Inc., et al. New Jersey 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burger-king-v-rudzewicz due-process hanson-v-denckla intentional-torts judicial-discretion personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the courts of the State of New Jersey violate the due process rights pursuant to the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Cons…
23-7251 In Re Raynada Jones 2024-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder jurisdiction magistrate probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether petitioner is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States
23-7228 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights-damages due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-rights Whether Article III jurisdiction extends to cases arising under the Constitution and federal law
23-7212 Keith P. Sequeira, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law federal-question jurisdiction jurisdictional-grant remand removal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the courts below may decide an important question of federal law not settled by this Court by expanding 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)'s jurisdictiona…
23A884 Joshua Marbley v. Teamster Local 988, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete certiorari civil-rights labor-law pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file a petition for writ of certiorari due to financial constraints constitutes grounds for an extraordi…
23-1064 Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2024-03-29 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment criminal-liability due-process imprisonment judicial-legislation state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction sudden-quarrel-provocation Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits imprisonment under a sentence derived from an unconstitutional law
23-7044 Melanie A. Ogle v. Hocking County Common Pleas Court, et al. Ohio 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process personal-jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction Absence-of-counsel,Sixth-Amendment,Sentencing,Personal-jurisdiction,Subject-matter-jurisdiction,Void-sentence
23-6972 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Keith Lenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata rooker-feldman standing state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rooker-Feldman bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte…
23-6910 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied IFP 46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction Does the United States jurisdiction over a vessel under 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a) present a question of subject-matter-jurisdiction?
23-930 Duringer Law Group PLC, et al. v. Janey Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collection-costs exxon-mobil-corp-v-saudi-basic-industries-corp fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction May debtors let stand a state-court money judgment against them, waiving the right to dispute postjudgment collection costs, and then challenge those …
23-906 April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowner's Association Virginia 2024-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-consistency judicial-integrity procedural-fairness subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdiction…
23-6694 Michael T. Braxton v. Warden, Anderson County Detention Center Fourth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process probable-cause state-corrective-process state-court-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Did the State of South Carolina deny the Petitioner a Substantial Constitutional right to a 'Constitutionally Adequate' probable-cause determination?
23-6624 In Re Johnny Jones 2024-01-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process florida-statutes jurisdiction legislative-process legislative-validity statutory-interpretation statutory-revision subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the creation of Statute 794.011(2) leave the courts without subject-matter-jurisdiction?
23-6556 Robert Thrasher v. Georgia Georgia 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment legal-record statutory-oath subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction witness-testimony Where there is no record of any part of a court proceeding, the grand jury proceedings, this means there was never a grand jury proceeding, correct?
23-762 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-revenues subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-assessment tax-assessments Whether the exclusive jurisdiction to shield local tax assessments from constitutional challenges in a federal court to protect state revenues can be …
23-746 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and international comity
23-732 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio 2024-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-courts civil-procedure constitutional-law ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-freedom standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Amendment doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention operates to deprive civil courts of subject-matter jurisdiction
23-702 Sander L. Esserman, in His Official Capacity as Future Claims Representative v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied asbestos-litigation bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-standard corporate-reorganization debtor-protection likelihood-of-success non-debtor-litigation organizational-restructuring preliminary-injunction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a sophisticated corporate defendant may use an organizational reshuffling to devise bankruptcy jurisdiction for a nationwide preliminary injun…
23-708 Chava Rachel Mark, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of T. B. M., R. L. M., and E. B. M., Minors, et al. v. Republic of Sudan, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-29 Denied Amici (1) consolidated-appropriations-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act judicial-review settlement-agreement state-sponsored-terrorism subject-matter-jurisdiction sudan-sponsored-terrorism Whether the SCRA stripped courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the settlement and whether the denial of a judicial forum for these…
23-6378 Gilmer Diaz-Jaramillo v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause due-process felony-on-high-seas foreign-nationals interlocutory-review maritime-drug-enforcement maritime-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie…
23A591 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-ii circuit-split constitutional-error guilty-plea maritime-drug-law subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) establishes a jurisdictional limitation that cannot be waived by an unconditional guilty plea an…
23-677 Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-question jurisdiction post-removal-amendment removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction Whether a post-removal amendment of the complaint defeats federal-question subject-matter jurisdiction
23-678 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied bankruptcy-code close-nexus-test fiscal-plan oversight-board policy-dispute promesa related-to-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction title-iii Title-III-court Under-PROMESA-Section-306(a)(2)-subject-matter-jurisdiction
23-6284 David Pontier v. Joseph Dang, dba Law Office of Joseph Dang Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest fdcpa federal-interpleader federal-jurisdiction interpleader judicial-ethics standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-6299 Jovon Montell Hollowell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process indigenous-rights judicial-authority jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-courts tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether the District Court was obligated to prove its jurisdiction and proper service before proceeding, whether the court was required to allow the d…
23-6266 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack due-process federal-review rooker-feldman subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment rendered without subject matter jurisdiction
23A535 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-appeal article-three corporate-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's 'state wherein they reside' clause limits federal courts' diversity jurisdiction over corporate parties based on th…
23-6186 Guillermo Borboa, aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Was the District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error in dismissing a MOTION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DUE TO COURTS LACK OF SUBJECT-MAT…
23-6108 Bryan Scott Cavett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-procedure Whether or not State violates an accused person's Due Process Rights when Texas High Court denies his State 11.07 Habeas Corpus, without written order…
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-549 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd…
23-6044 Cristian Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause felonies-on-high-seas felony-on-the-high-seas international-law laws-of-nations maritime-drug-enforcement-law maritime-law piracy-principles subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie…
23A448 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court can assert subject matter jurisdiction over a foreign marriage dissolution that has already been validly dissolved by a court in…
23-5930 Brent Douglas Cole v. R. D. Keyes, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-privileges due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-ad-prosequendum Question not identified
23-5909 Eric A. Zevely v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 article-iii-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction federal-criminal-conviction judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3582 is a point in the litigation permitting a defendant to challenge subject-matter jurisdiction, where case law b…
23-5910 Stuart Alexander Dameri v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fraud judicial-review rule-4-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Amendment's protection of 'Due Process was violated
23-5879 Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) is a part of the mitigation of a defendant's sentence that can challenge the subject-matter jurisdict…
23-405 Kristy Ross v. Federal Trade Commission Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied arguable-basis article-iii civil-procedure frcp-60(b)(4) jurisdictional-challenge rule-60(b)(4) rule-60(b)(6) subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent void Whether a judgment lacking in subject matter jurisdiction under Article III is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) even with an arguable basis for jurisdiction
23-391 Alexander Eugenio Moskovits v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. Florida 2023-10-13 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-law judicial-precedent standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-florida-state-courts-can-defy-stare-decisis-on-the-jurisdictional-issue-of-lack-of-plaintiff-standing
23-375 Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-constitution texas-estates-code texas-government-code trial-de-novo Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection
23-5738 Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fair-procedure judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect procedural-fairness res-judicata rule-60b4 subject-matter-jurisdiction usurpation-of-power Whether factors of correct administration of the rules and fair procedure to allow a party an opportunity to litigate the question of jurisdiction mus…
23-5728 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge standing state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court correctly dismissed a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. 2255 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
23-359 Kelvin Lionell Wright, II v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States District Court, Western District of Texas lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 5:19-CR-321-FB-1
23A293 Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. Ohio 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-organizations secular-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction watson-v-jones Whether the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention under the First Amendment operates to deprive secular courts of subject-matter jurisdiction over dis…
23-350 Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether the lower court violated the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5709 Guy L. Coulston v. Raúl Labrador, Attorney General of Idaho Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-individual standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Did the District court through the 9th circuit court of appeals and Prosecution, and My Trial counsel err in discretion to a Void Judgment that lead i…
23-5685 In Re Bobby Richardson 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-procedure jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-discretionary-duty rule-12b1 standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether petitioner is entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus from this Court, to compel the lower court(s) to adjudicate petitioner's Fed. R…
23-5690 Azhar Lal v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-uscs-1331 28-uscs-1350 federal-jurisdiction foreign-national law-of-nations standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treaties treaty-interpretation Does a Foreign National have standing to bring challenges for violations of the law of nations or treaties of the United States pursuant to 28 USCS §§…
23-338 Byron V. Bush, et ux. v. Reliant Bank, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) breach-of-contract civil-rights due-process fdic-bank fraud-upon-the-court judicial-defendants rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that facts from one party are sufficient to determine subject matter jurisdiction and case outcome
23-5613 Robert L. Allum v. Montana State Fund Montana 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-branch montana-constitution res-judicata state-court-structure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Montana Workers' Compensation Court is a constitutionally valid judicial body
23-263 Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority rule-60(b)(4) standing subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment void-judgment Is there a time limit to file a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a judgment order as void for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction
23A246 Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Presumed Complete federal-circuit fifth-circuit judicial-review marbury-v-madison patent-applications subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Circuit or the Fifth Circuit has subject-matter jurisdiction over patent-related disputes involving abandoned but revivable patent…
23-5584 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-appeal criminal-appeals due-process grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-review merits-determination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit threshold-question Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals commit a reversible error when it resolved the merits of the petitioner's criminal direct appeals review withou…
23-213 Brian O'Grady v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence subject-matter-jurisdiction wildland-fire wildland-fire-response Is the United States liable for the negligence of its wildland fire managers?
23-201 Lawrence T. Newman, et ux. v. Heritage Village West Condominium Association, Inc. Florida 2023-09-01 Denied appellate-attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-standing standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the trial court's judgment notwithstanding its lack of subject matter jurisdiction violated the Newmans' Constitutional rights to due process
23-5480 Jesus C. More v. Florida Florida 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure competency-hearing due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar procedural-rules remedies separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
23-177 Terrence Fitch v. Thomas McAdams, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived accardi-doctrine agency-regulations civil-procedure due-process government-officials standing subject-matter-jurisdiction turner-hearing turner-v-rogers Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in determining subject-matter-jurisdiction
23A179 Alexander Eugenio Moskovits v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. Florida 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreclosure standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether state courts may deny a foreclosure defendant due process and equal protection by deciding the foreclosure plaintiff's standing to invoke subj…
23-149 Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Louisiana's conditional waiver of sovereign immunity to allow suits against it to proceed only in Louisiana courts deprives federal courts of …
23-141 Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a removal action supported by 28 USC 1338 and 1454 is justiciable by way of a district court order of remand issued pursuant to 28 USC 1447?
23-5341 Regina Nachael Howell Foster v. Areya Holder Aurzada, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process removal removal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' memorandum opinion directly conflict with an opinion by other Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court?
23-5269 Noble Christo El, aka Christopher Nathan Jones v. William Todd Miller, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federalism jurisdiction legal-standing pleading-standards standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Whether the sovereignty vested in the people under the U.S. Constitution has been usurped by the states
23A99 Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-08-03 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection probate-proceeding property-dispute subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-de-novo Whether a state trial court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by exercising jurisdiction over a property di…
23-5118 In Re Dustin Ray Braddock 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court trial-error Whether a dual-role jury instruction is required when law enforcement officers testify as both expert and percipient witnesses
23-5119 Nawllah Shayanne Tiger v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP federal-jurisdiction law-of-the-case major-crimes-act mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma postconviction-relief retroactivity state-procedural-law subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Was the Oklahoma court's decision to approve reinstating Ms. Tiger's convictions based on such a novel and unforeseeable change in state procedural la…
23-5073 Cinque Robinson v. Janeen D. Guajardo Illinois 2023-07-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process justiciable-controversy parental-rights parenting-time procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction void-order Did the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District err in not vacating the abatement of my parenting time
23-5065 Mario Reynoso v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appointment-of-counsel civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process methamphetamine-distribution standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find that the courts lacked subject matter jurisdiction and that the petitioner's motion for appoin…
22-1229 Ronnie D. Ward, et al. v. Cross Keys Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied appellate-review article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power Should a case removed to bankruptcy court proceed through three levels of federal court without proof of subject matter jurisdiction?
22-1209 PDVSA U.S. Litigation Trust, et al. v. LUKOIL Pan Americas LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure executive-branch foreign-government judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the application of the political question doctrine deprives a court of subject matter jurisdiction
22-7677 Francis Okiemute Akpore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-tort-claims-act immigration immigration-law jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice removal removal-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Does 8 U.S.C. 1252(g) strip the district court of subject matter jurisdiction to hear a noncitizen's FTCA claim of wrongful removal?
22-1102 Acquisition 362, LLC, dba Strategic Import Supply v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure court-of-international-trade customs-law federal-circuit import-protests jurisdictional-remedies standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that Petitioner's protests concerning rate and refund determinations were untimely and the Cour…
22-1087 Douglas Bruce v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review procedural-due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine preclude the District Court from recognizing subject matter jurisdiction over the claims filed by Mr. Bruce in federa…
22-1060 Haywood Jackson Mizell v. Citizens Bank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-trustee conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty procedural-violation promissory-note property-sale security-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is it a conflict of interest for the Respondent's attorney to be appointed a Bankruptcy Chapter 7 Trustee that, after appointment, uses a 'perfected s…
22-7425 James Conerly, et al. v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity ninth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction systemic-racism Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion
22-7376 Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the actual-innocence gateway applies only where a petitioner can prove that she is 'morall[ly]' or 'completely' innocent of any crime, or whet…
22-987 Polaris Industries Inc., et al. v. Jeremy Albright Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied abstention-doctrine cafa civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act equitable-jurisdiction federal-courts forum-shopping subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether CAFA's mandatory grant of subject matter jurisdiction and enumeration of limited equitable bases authorizing abstention require district court…
22-7251 Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-competence constitutional-standing criminal-procedure criminal-venue federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue When Congress by Statute has mandatorily set where the criminal Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the offense must be, was the Fourth Circuit in error to…
22-7166 Anthony H. Warnick v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit Can subject matter jurisdiction be raised at any time?
22-955 Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the court-created 'futility' doctrine repugnant to Article III?
22-7139 Bobby Richardson v. Richard A. Luna, Warden First Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus savings-clause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower court's lack of factual predicate jurisdiction pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) motion could not be adjudicated
22-924 John M. Fife v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law declaratory-judgment due-process exchange-act federal-jurisdiction finra-discipline securities-exchange-act securities-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of their 'exclusive jurisdiction' to determine whether FINRA violates the Exchange Act whe…
22-914 Stanley Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction hypothetical-jurisdiction judicial-domain standing state-law-claims steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-env't subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may assume 'hypothetical' subject matter jurisdiction to reach a decision on issues of state law against the party challenging…
22-900 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Robert Allen Brundage Sixth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a District Court can nullify an existing diversity jurisdiction by doing sua sponte conversion of one of Plaintiff's two witnesses into Plaint…
22-883 Rachel Evens v. David Gilbertson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity standing state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention What constitutes 'acts in excess of jurisdiction' versus 'the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction', with the judges being subject to civil li…
22-6994 In Re Devon Banks-Bey 2023-03-10 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus international-law sovereign-citizen subject-matter-jurisdiction Should this court use its power to grant a writ of Habeas Corpus to a Moorish American sovereign man who has no other available remedy to raise his cl…
22-6913 In Re Robert B. Read, Jr. 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus rules-of-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial court have implied subject-matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner for the indicted felony offense?
22-829 Marla Faith Crawford v. Richmond City School Board Virginia 2023-03-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure due-process idea-regulations jurisdiction pretrial-motion reversible-error sovereign-immunity standard-of-review subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-of-virginia Did the Supreme Court of Va. error in determining that the Circuit Court for Richmond City nonruling on a pretrial motion filed on April 2, 2019 wasn'…
22-6858 In Re Zumar H. Dubose 2023-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jury-selection personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by 10 or m…
22-6796 Marty Allen Owens v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied IFP cherokee-nation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-membership Did the McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) decision embrace the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. §1153(a), to the Territory of the State Of Oklahoma…
22-6770 In Re Alphonza Thomas Bey 2023-02-14 Dismissed IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 15th-amendment administrative-remedies constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions human-rights personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-imprisonment Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have government jurisdictio…
22-755 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Thomas L. Dorwin Sixth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court order that Federal Courts of Appeals are obligated to sua sponte review subject-matter jurisdiction issues regardless of the…
22-6691 Hugues-Denver Akassy v. Michael Kirkpatrick, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-charges criminal-indictment due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-procedure rape-case standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can a court with lack of subject matter jurisdiction permit an indigent defendant to stand trial on trumped-up criminal charges not made in indictment…
22-723 Jonathan VanLoan v. Nation of Islam, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-baseless-standard denton-v-hernandez dismissal-standard factual-allegations frivolous neitzke-v-williams section-1983 subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the legal standard for dismissal of a plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case, for factual allegations deemed 'fantastical' by the court, the 'clearly ba…
22-6607 Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of lack…
22-6590 In Re Harry Sharod James 2023-01-20 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus procedural-standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for th…
22-664 Stephen Edward May v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-consequences federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unconditional-release Whether a judgment rendered after a habeas petitioner has been unconditionally released with no collateral consequences is void for lack of subject-ma…
22-6556 Lawrence Anderson Fonseca, fka Lawrence Anderson Fonseca-Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure foreign-national guilty-plea innocence new-evidence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Fonseca should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in light of new evidence supporting his claim of innocence
22-627 Harold L. Wilborn v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claims due-process procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Whether procedural due process under the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are denied, resulting in deprivation of a constitutionally protected …
22-596 Lamon Sandel Dewayne Donnell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process foreign-state judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction title-28 Is this Court, and all public offices, a FOREIGN STATE as defined under FRCP Rule 4(j) and under Title 28— JUDICIARY | AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE?
22-6393 Xavier Milton Earquhart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review mandate-rule motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the court have an obligation to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction exists as a preliminary matter?
22-6347 Manuel Alejandro Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 bastide-hernandez-v-united-states due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law nix-chaves-v-barr notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a 'Notice to Appear' that fails to include the date and time of th…
22-551 Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a state law claim that requires resolving a conflict between state law and a federal cons…
22-6281 Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a 'Notice to Appear' that fails to include the date and time of th…
22-6260 Paula Williams v. Conduent Human Services LLC Seventh Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-practices due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
22-524 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island First Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption public-nuisance removal state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction transboundary-harm Whether federal district court has jurisdiction over state-law claims for injuries caused by transboundary greenhouse gas emissions
22-520 Temple University Hospital, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-court-review federal-labor-policy judicial-estoppel labor-law labor-relations nlrb-jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Circuit lawfully affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's new rule
22-6224 Ali Shahrokhi v. Kizzy J. S. Burrow Nevada 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias procedural-due-process recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial judge's refusal to recuse himself from presiding over the 3-day bench trial—while being an adverse party litigating against Shahrokhi— v…
22-6201 In Re Arthur James Lomax 2022-12-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment bill-of-rights civil-rights due-process federalism grand-jury indictment state-constitution statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformity-of-laws Whether the Colorado Constitution's requirement that all laws be enacted by the General Assembly is satisfied by the omission of the enacting clause f…
22-444 Nazir Khan v. Presence Chicago Hospitals Network, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment antitrust antitrust-claim civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-privileges physician-privileges standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the hospital can terminate the physician's privileges
22-6044 Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi…
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 Did Superior Court Judge Aurigemma err in not finding subject matter jurisdiction to enforce a Court Settlement Agreement
22-5921 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process grand-jury indictment mandamus personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court lacked subject-matter and personal jurisdiction in the petitioner's criminal proceedings
22-5910 In Re Mark Lewis 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection federal-criminal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether a state court acting beyond its legislated authority and without subject-matter jurisdiction in the first instance can render a judgment of co…
22-5855 Kenrick C. Hamilton v. Northern Virginia District Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure debt-collection-practices default-judgment fair-debt-collection-practices federal-jurisdiction security-clearance service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court erred in finding that the plaintiff did not properly serve the defendant despite service by U.S. Marshals
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination Whether Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of petitioner's jurisdictional claim resulted in an unreasonable determination of the facts
22-5841 Harry Sharod James v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure commerce-clause confrontation-clause constitutional-authority district-court filing-fee judicial-tax procedural-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Court of North Carolina, Eastern District abuse its discr…
22-5807 In Re Daniel Kwaku Gbedemah 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP extrajudicial-killings fiduciary-duties human-rights-violations mandamus national-security subject-matter-jurisdiction torture-victims-protection-act void-judgment whether Congress implicitly or explicitly bar Petitioner a victim of 'extrajudicial killings and torture' from seeking relief under the Torture Victim…
22-5805 Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-structural-error due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
22-290 Anne-Marie Mendible v. Special Proceedings Department of the Wake County Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant res-judicata standing subject-matter-jurisdiction truth-in-lending-act Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it
22-280 Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner
22-284 Gary Frisby, pka G-Money v. Sony Music Entertainment, dba RCA Records, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisprudence appellate-procedure case-consolidation copyright-infringement judicial-review musical-composition procedural-error sound-recording subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the musical composition infringement claim appeal constitute a wrongfu…
22-5649 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Corrections, et al. Nebraska 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment court-filing criminal-procedure due-process personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-rights Whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction when the amended information was not filed until after the petitioner appeared in court and…
22-266 Gary S. Christensen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 26-usc-6201(a)(4) criminal-tax criminal-tax-law due-process irs-assessment restitution return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service return-mail-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-restitution Does this Court's holding in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, 139 S. Ct. 1853 (2019) overturn every case holding the Internal Revenu…
22-5622 Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark Nevada 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-wife-has-standing-to-act-as-private-prosecutor-against-husband
22-5592 Harry Sharod James v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation court-authority due-process federal-courts jurisdictional-challenge legislative-power state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Suloskantial and Procedure Due Process of the 5th and 14th Amendments establish Subject Matter Jurisdiction, and do Courts (Federal and STATE) ha…
22-229 In Re Brian D. Swanson 2022-09-12 Denied 17th-amendment administrative-law article-5 article-five 22-228" article-five-consent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-ratification equal-suffrage federal-question-jurisdiction georgia judicial-discretion patent-rights popular-elections senate-elections senate-representation seventeenth-amendment state-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion in di Does the Seventeenth Amendment deprive the State of Georgia of its equal suffrage in the Senate, requiring its consent under Article 5 of the Constitu…
22-5554 In Re Melvin T. Bell 2022-09-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights deportation due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure mail-fraud personal-liberty subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Mr. Bell is restrained of his personal liberty due to lack of jurisdiction
22-199 Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied Response Waived citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the district court required to determine subject-matter jurisdiction before reaching the merits?
22-5505 Elec Elmer Cusick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-ruling post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a substantive ruling or a procedural ruling
22-5454 Jesus Carreon-Grimaldo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals discretionary-decision discretionary-decisions downward-departure jurisdictional-label sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the advisory Sentencing Guidelin…
22-5418 Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad…
22-5281 Leonardo T. Morales v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-08-04 Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus res-judicata sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Florida Supreme Court had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus despite applying Res Judicata
22-5289 Phillip A. Brown, II v. Cindi Curtin, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction calderon-v-thompson circuit-split collins-v-miller federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-54(b) final-judgment habeas-claims habeas-corpus jury-bias remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Circuit Court must recall the mandate in extraordinary cases where it lacked subject-matter-jurisdiction
22-5290 In Re Phillip A. Brown, II 2022-08-04 Denied IFP circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-the-circuit-court-must-recall-the-mandate
22-82 Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection 22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar…
22-62 Big Horn County Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Alden Big Man, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-adjudicatory-jurisdiction electric-cooperative federal-regulation indian-tribes montana-exceptions montana-v-us nonmember-defendant nonmember-regulation subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-court tribal-jurisdiction Whether an Indian tribal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate a tribally created claim as an 'other means' of regulating a nonmember fe…
22-38 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied 28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus Whether the Federal Circuit has subject matter jurisdiction over a petition for writ of mandamus challenging a denial of a motion to transfer venue un…
22-5052 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury incorporation precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment requiring indictments be applied to the States, thereby overturning precedence from 1884; Hurtado v. Ca…
21-8223 Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Should a 28 USC 2241 HC be filed in State of incarceration or State of conviction for a State prisoner serving sentence in another State under Inter-s…
21-8226 Eric C. Sutherland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-claim habeas-corpus indictment indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-challenge new-evidence procedural-default schlup-standard schlup-v-delo subject-matter-jurisdiction If an indictment omits an essential element and a prisoner files a §2255 after AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations has passed, in asserting his in…
21-1581 Tong Park v. California California 2022-06-22 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment extrinsic-fraud fair-trial faretta-rights in-personam-jurisdiction prima-facie-guilt subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-error-coram-nobis whether-the-court-should-intervene-to-bring-lower-state-courts-in-line-with-established-us-constitutional-laws
21-1570 Randall L. Spade v. Department of Justice Third Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied administrative-review exclusive-liability federal-employees-compensation-act labor-secretary-decision statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction work-related-injuries Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to address what injuries fall within the scope of FECA's statutory scheme
21-8066 Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
21-8008 In Re James Martin Graham 2022-06-01 Denied IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federalism fifth-amendment habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Did the indictment fail to charge an offense against the laws of the United States, because no jurisdiction has been ceded or accepted over the place …
21-7967 Jairo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Can a defendant procedurally default a claim that the court lacked jurisdiction to imprison him under an unconstitutional statute?
21-7968 Thurman Jerome Brown v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment binding-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extrajudicial-proceedings judicial-discretion personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment What is the full legal effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to grant certiorari?
21-7928 Timothy Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion Did the district court have jurisdiction to consider Mr. Lindsey's authorized motion?
21-7905 Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-18 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' use of a new non-retroactivity doctrine to deny Petitioner's subject-matter jurisdiction claim is vali…
21-1450 Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Judgment Issued Amici (9) 18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1602-1611 criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalitie…
21-7763 Randolph Ashford v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Was Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th, Amendment Rights of the U.S. Constitution, Due Process Rights violated
21-7599 Neil Timothy Aho v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority due-process enumerated-powers federalism necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Whether Section 2252 of Title 18 of the United States Code is void ab initio and no law at all on the ground Congress has no authority to enact the St…
21-1325 Estate of Samuel I. Roig, By and Through Its Personal Representative Gail Olivera, et al. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure consent-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Whether a Panel of the Circuit Court erred when it dismissed an appeal holding that there is no appellate jurisdiction to consider on the merits wheth…
21-7491 Cassandra Bonita Charles v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process eleventh-amendment false-claims-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Eleventh Amendment immunity apply when an officer of the court violates 31 U.S. Code 3729?
21-1294 David H. Penny v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits first-amendment free-speech impeachment impeachment-power justiciability legislative-standing political-question-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a citizen constituent of a duly elected President have the possibility of filing a complaint with standing, subject matter jurisdiction, and just…
21-1280 In Re J. Cory Cordova 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority
21-7399 Rosalind A. Clayton v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process eeoc-administrative-remedies employment-discrimination equal-protection exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies federal-employees subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Where the Courts decision egregiously conflicts with Supreme Court Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis 18-525 and 29 C.F.R. 1613.513, as amend. Was petit…
21-7407 Janece Tisdel v. The Witness Protection Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction government-disability legal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the United States Court of Appeals and the United States District Court have subject matter jurisdiction?
21-1252 Maria Herta v. John McBride, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court driver-license driver's-license due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction over the case, given the challenges to jurisdiction raised by the petitioner
21-1218 Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court possess subject-matter-jurisdiction to allow class-members to intervene-of-right in an MDL-proceeding?
21-7251 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sovereignty indian-law land-title native-american-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma Court's can continue to unlawfully exercise under state law criminal jurisdiction over the lands formerly known as the Unassigned Lan…
21-7164 Charles Pyne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination Whether a certificate of appealability should issue
21-7173 Herman J. Snell, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-22 Denied IFP collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice fundamental-rights jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States Supreme Court enter a new procedural rule of law that overrules subject matter jurisdiction?
21-1127 Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response Waived dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction
21-1105 Jana Garcia v. Wyoming Department of Health and Social Services Tenth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity federal-funding federal-funds rehabilitation-act subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-defense Whether a state is immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment in an action under the Rehabilitation Act when the cause of action is based on the st…
21-1076 Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan Michigan 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioners' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated
21-7017 Kenneth Lynn Funkhouser v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-01 Denied IFP federal-preemption habeas-corpus habeas-jurisprudence indian-lands jurisdictional-challenge mcbratney-draper-rule public-law-83-280 retroactivity-jurisprudence subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Does Oklahoma's 1906 Federal Enabling Act preempt the State from exercising jurisdiction over 'Indian lands'—despite race—thus rendering petitioner's …
21-7030 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure enabling-act federal-jurisdiction federal-land-restrictions indian-country state-enabling-act state-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction Does the State of Oklahoma have subject matter jurisdiction over any person who commits an offense within the boundaries of Indian Country?
21-6854 Joe Byrd v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Trustee for the Benefit of Alternative Loan Trust 2007-J1 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process equal-protection federal-statute subject-matter-jurisdiction Is it an error, a violation of federal statute, and an impermissible denial of due process of law and equal protection of law for a court without subj…
21-6848 Juan Manuel Lopez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-major-crimes-act judicial-interpretation major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma native-american-rights new-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), announced a new rule of criminal procedure
21-987 Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction witness Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a witne…
21-978 Carmela Rivero v. Fidelity Investments, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-remedy-at-law anti-injunction-act declaratory-judgment-act legal-forum property-rights south-carolina-v-regan subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-exception Is the DJA's tax exception barred by the AIA?
21-935 McIlwain, LLC, aka Timothy J. McIlwain, Attorney at Law v. Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection osborn-v-bank-of-the-united-states pro-hac-vice pro-se rowland-v-mens-colony subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment transunion-llc-v-ramirez Did the court below err in not considering the subject-matter-jurisdiction
21-6650 Zachary Jeff Harvell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-6624 Arthur F. Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure federalism habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdiction-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the axon exclusive soars decision rule should have precluded the district court and the appellate court from exercising jurisdiction over the …
21-878 Carl Michael Seibert v. Jeremy McIntire, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's purported 'inextricably intertwined' standard for evaluating jurisdictional claims under Rooker-Feldman arbitrarily and…
21-6528 Tushkahomma J. Leon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure juvenile-justice mcgirt-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-6529 Brandon Lamont Jenkins v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure matloff-v-wallace mcgirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-6331 Byron White v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-18 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-6281 Mac Truong v. Rosemary I. Mergenthaler, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-authority appeal-consolidation bankruptcy-procedure barton-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process false-findings justice obstruction-of-justice subject-matter-jurisdiction trustee-immunity Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit criminally obstruct justice and/or abuse and/or exceed its legal authority
21-595 Bruce Alexander v. Anheuser-Busch, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process employee-contacts federal-rules in-rem-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss personal-jurisdiction sales subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Western District Court err in its rulings on personal-jurisdiction, in-rem-jurisdiction, due-process, civil-procedure, sales, and employee-con…
21-591 Donald J. Fowler v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived civil-penalties civil-penalty civil-procedure constitutional-limits disgorgement excessive-penalties private-agreement sec-enforcement statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Where 28 U.S.C. § 2462 permits tolling of 5-year statute of limitations by private agreement
21-578 John Raynor v. Dennis Walker, et al. Nebraska 2021-10-20 Denied appellate-procedure color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection internal-affairs-doctrine nebraska-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Equal Protection Clause circumscribe the Nebraska Supreme Court's discretion to disregard a Color of Law adjudication?
21-6030 Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty Whether respondent waived/forfeited procedural defenses
21-566 Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty?
21-6018 Gary F. Compelleebee v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-548 David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict…
21-5946 Corelanius Phillips v. Andrea Culclager, Warden Arkansas 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel separation-of-powers sixth-amendment structural-defect subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether criminal defendants denied Due Process of Law entitle them to remedy
21-516 Justin Haggerty v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied 18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 'interracial' nature of a minor offense in Indian Country is an element of 18 U.S.C. § 1152, rather than an affirmative defense
21-503 Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. California 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether a court's judgment is void if it lacked jurisdiction over the subject matter or parties, or acted inconsistently with due process
21-498 James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
21-5681 Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-post-conviction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity seminoles-nation-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception whether-respondent-waived-forfeited-procedural-defenses
21-5564 Russell Jay Reger v. Texas Texas 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge legal-nullity personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Is an uncontested void judgment still viewed by this court as being 'mere waste paper'?
21-291 Barbara Silva v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-tort-claims-act personal-information privacy-act privacy-act-1974 social-security-number sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Privacy Act of 1974 requires the government to maintain accurate information and not disclose protected personal information, and whether …
21-261 Carrie Rae Eldridge v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights class-legislation direct-tax due-process equal-protection graduated-taxation jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax Does subject-matter jurisdiction exist to enforce the income tax as a direct tax without limitation
21-5449 Lillian J. Cuadrado-Concepcion v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP discretionary-function due-care FTCA Gaubert state-law-obligations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the discretionary function inquiry under Gaubert applies to voluntarily adopted State-law obligations with State-law defined 'due care' perfor…
21-5372 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction telephone-consumer-protection-act Did the Circuit Court of Appeal violate the U.S. Constitution and federal laws by depriving the petitioner of a jury trial, due process, and equal pro…
21-205 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act administrative-record default-judgment department-of-labor frap-17 local-rules res-judicata sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an unopposed default judgement be granted because the Department of Labor did not submit the full administrative record to the court as require…
21-207 Behrman Capital IV, L.P., et al. v. Thomas E. Reynolds, Trustee Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied derivative-jurisdiction federal-courts lambert-run-coal-co-v-baltimore-o-r-co personal-jurisdiction removal state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the derivative jurisdiction doctrine precludes federal courts from exercising personal jurisdiction following removal from state courts that l…
21-191 Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute
21-200 Willie Frank Walker v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied 14th-amendment accardi-doctrine civil-procedure due-process foreign-state jurisdictional-challenge personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction transient-foreigner Lack of subject-matter and personal jurisdiction
21-5330 Laura Marie Scott v. Nandan Patel, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption michigan-v-long monroe-v-pape standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax trustee-liquidation Does enjoining both courts in contradictory reliance on faux removal of a 100% exempt parcel (11 U.S.C.) revested in Petitioner before removal from th…
21-5220 Brian Brantley v. Florida Department of Revenue Florida 2021-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-order due-process legal-procedure motion-to-vacate rule-1.540 rule-1.540(b)(4) standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-order Whether a court's decision denying a petitioner rule 1.540(b)(4) motion to vacate order as void for lack of subject matter jurisdiction not based on t…
21-52 Emmanuel Edokobi v. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals should have determined if the district court judge was judicially disabled
21-38 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling foia-request jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline misconduct opm-investigation subject-matter-jurisdiction want-of-service Whether the 60-day filing deadline is subject to equitable tolling
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
20-1813 Terry Foster, et al. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1516, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied 501b due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty good-cause labor-law lmrda subject-matter-jurisdiction union-member union-membership Did expulsion of a union member without his presence constitute a lack of due process, good cause as defined by 157.01 LMRDA, Section 501(b)?
20-8391 Oliver Price v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Ohio 2021-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction Whether a pro se petitioner should be afforded the same liberal construction as a previous petitioner
20-8360 Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction Was military appellate court obligated to accept late ineffective assistance of counsel claim
20-1756 Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations?
20-8311 Owen W. Barnaby v. Berrien County Treasurer Michigan 2021-06-15 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-upon-court property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-judgment Whether the foreclosure judgment obtained by fraud and unauthorized practice of law is void
20-1722 Damian Cruz v. Glenda I. Lebron Vazquez Puerto Rico 2021-06-11 Denied administrative-agency civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-personam-jurisdiction interstate-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeal departed so far from the due process in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of t…
20-1699 E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a 'bright line' rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures
20-1676 Public Watchdogs v. Southern California Edison Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process hobbs-act nrc-licensees nuclear-power nuclear-waste price-anderson-act regulatory-authority state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Hobbs Act deprives a federal district court of subject matter jurisdiction over state law and Price-Anderson Act claims asserted by a priv…
20-1658 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor First Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion appellate-procedure civil-procedure department-of-labor federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure non-waiver-mandate sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the First Circuit lack subject-matter-jurisdiction to rule while an earlier-filed Sarbanes-Oxley matter with identical causes of action is not yet…
20-8158 In Re Larry E. Starks 2021-05-27 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 collateral-attack collateral-review constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether the denial of review on jurisdictional claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
20-8166 David B. Portee v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-violation false-arrest judicial-authority judicial-oath judicial-proceedings legal-validity oath-of-office state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-jurisdiction Should each Justice or Judge of the United States take the Oath of office or affirmation before performing the duties of office?
20-1651 Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thus not barred from review …
20-1567 Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a county/state judge have authority to preside over a case when they have a conflict of interest?
20-7995 John C. Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-12 Denied IFP due-process emancipation graft judicial-bias judicial-impartiality private-prisons subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Does the state court have subject-matter jurisdiction in a trial wherein the judge shall receive extrajudicially paid pecuniary gain for a conviction …
20-1506 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-discipline due-process personal-jurisdiction state-bar-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether discipline of an attorney by a state bar court is void due to lack of personal jurisdiction
20-7871 Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction
20-1473 Alan W. Crittenden v. Mariko C. Crittenden Georgia 2021-04-20 Denied due-process equal-protection military-powers military-service sofa status-of-forces-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaty-powers Did the State of Georgia deny Petitioner equal-protection, due-process by dismissing his divorce complaint for lack of subject-matter-jurisdiction, wh…
20-1452 Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this is a case 'arising under' federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(…
20-7738 Elmer W. Grant, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-14th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-precedent jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Validity-of-indictment-with-foreman-signature-only
20-7721 Shannon Demond Dotson v. Tunica-Biloxi Gaming Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure consent-extension-of-time due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-law Why the courts never acknowledged that the plaintiff never consented to the Defendant request for Extension of Time?
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
20-1359 Superama Corporation, Inc., dba USA Sumo v. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response Waived arbaugh-v-y-h-corp copyright copyright-act extraterritorial-application jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit reed-elsevier-v-muchnick statutory-requirement subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application, applied in the context of the U.S. Copyright Act, creates a jurisdictional bar
20-7576 Humberto Rodriguez, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-03-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure jurisdictional-determination rir-nabisco-v-european-cmty rjr-nahisco state-courts state-criminal-cases subject-matter-jurisdiction tribunal-power two-step-test Does the Supreme Court's Two-Step Test to determine it created in, RIR Nabisco V. European Cmty, 136 5.Ct. 2090, also apply to State criminal cases to…
20-7551 Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman Sixth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings, does the stat…
20-1270 Scott Erik Stafne v. Bank of New York Mellon Ninth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived article-three boundary-lines federalism judicial-power real-property res senior-judges state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federalism structure of government prevented the District Court from assuming subject-matter jurisdiction over a real property res for pur…
20-7195 Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence Whether the petitioner's convictions were obtained in violation of due process
20-1143 Denise A. Badgerow v. Greg Walters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) arbitration-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act federal-question-jurisdiction look-through-approach quezada-v-bechtel subject-matter-jurisdiction vaden-v-discover-bank Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the FAA where the only ba…
20-7193 John C. Stuart v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-impartiality due-process judicial-bias pecuniary-conflict pecuniary-interest private-prison private-prisons state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Do this Court's holding in Tumey v. Ohio and Ward v. Village of Monroeville apply to cases wherein additional money is paid to the judge for convictio…
20-1133 Nicholas L. Triantos v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE4, et al. First Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federalism mgc-93a remand separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that one Count under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was sufficient to confer Federal Jurisdictio…
20-1115 Christopher R. Granton v. Washington State Lottery Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias lottery-dispute property-rights standing state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in its rulings on this case?
20-1103 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Third Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights hostile-environment hostile-work-environment jury-award procedural-due-process reinstatement retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii Question not identified
20-1028 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Credit Suisse Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization chapter-11 circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process exculpation-clause non-debtor-release subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a nonconsensual exculpation clause in a bankruptcy reorganization plan purporting to release non-debtor third parties from claims by other non…
20-6950 In Re John Poullard 2021-01-26 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can the United States District Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Clerk of Court refuse to file my FRCP(60)(B)(4) motion for relief from the 2-1 decision ju…
20-6853 Dora L. Adkins v. Dulles Hotel Corporation Fourth Circuit 2021-01-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure corporate-citizenship dismissal-with-prejudice diversity-jurisdiction headquarters nerve-center principal-place-of-business standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a court can disregard a corporation's headquarters for diversity jurisdiction
20-844 Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. Connecticut 2020-12-23 Denied 7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Seventh Amendment require a jury trial in a civil eviction case?
20-835 Warren Rosenfeld v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable
20-6683 Reynaldo Diaz-Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals erred and abused its discretion in rejecting the challenge to the indictment and argument for dismissal for lack of subje…
20-818 Bruce A. Norvell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7623 administrative-procedures-act agency-action irs-inaction irs-whistleblower-office sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-claim Whether the United States has waived sovereign immunity under the Administrative Procedures Act to exercise subject matter jurisdiction over Claim 201…
20-750 Timothy P. Murphy v. Susan Stacy, Circuit Court Judge Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-courts state-law-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment swift-v-tyson Whether federal courts can disregard Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
20-755 Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1831 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing to a…
20-6423 Byron Lee v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract breach-of-duty equal-protection federal-question feha feha-violation procedural-due-process removal removal-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the lower courts commit Equal Protection or FEHA violations?
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the state or federal court the proper forum for this dispute?
20-6356 Ryan Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has 'the use of physical force against the person of another' as an elem…
20-6308 John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the state lack subject matter jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-6312 Abdul Azeem Mohammed v. Jorge L. Alonso, District Judge, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-authority due-process judicial-discretion judicial-immunity legal-procedure procedural-defect standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a judge has judicial immunity when presiding over a case without subject matter jurisdiction
20-657 Tony C. Thomas, for the Estate of Thalia Dukes v. Lawrence S. Craige Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guardian-ad-litem rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal suit where the plaintiff was denied the opportunity to present his case in state court
20-625 Joseph Findler v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-claims dismissal-with-prejudice entitlement-to-relief federal-rules iqbal-twombly pleading-standards subject-matter-jurisdiction unconstitutional-conduct Do the lower federal courts have the authority to depart from the pleading standards required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court's…
20-590 Ryan Pankoe v. Laura Pankoe Pennsylvania 2020-11-03 Denied divorce divorce-law establishment-clause no-fault-divorce pennsylvania-constitution public-policy subject-matter-jurisdiction viewpoint-based whether-section-3301(d)-of-the-pennsylvania-divorce-code-is-unconstitutional
20-6136 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment collateral-attack due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-ab-initio void-judgment Validity of void judgment and order
20-521 Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review party-presentation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-district-court Did any named in the three complaints filed with the District Court allege sufficient personal concrete and particularized harm therein to assert Arti…
20-505 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process foreclosure property-rights real-property standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether subject matter jurisdiction should be waived
20-506 Sergei Vinkov v. Mark Smith, et al. California 2020-10-16 Denied civil-rights communication-decency-act defamation due-process first-amendment religious-organization subject-matter-jurisdiction volunteer-protection-act Whether the lower courts have subject matter jurisdiction over a defamation lawsuit against a foreign national board director of a religious organizat…
20-510 IQVIA Inc. v. Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-limits personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court with jurisdiction coextensive with a state court in the district can exercise personal jurisdiction over absent class members…
20-6062 Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure criminal-process district-court due-process legal-counsel post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court has subject-matter jurisdiction
20-462 Jesse Louis Kaiser v. Anthony R. Morfitt, Assistant United States Attorney Eighth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Jurisdiction-challenge
20-5980 Anthony Brawner, aka Anthony Barber v. United States District of Columbia 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can a valid claim of subject-matter jurisdiction ever come under a procedural bar?
20-433 Mark Anthony Jenkins v. Timothy O'Rourke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody-dispute civil-rights conspiracy de-novo-review due-process judicial-conspiracy res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-lawsuit subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing this 42 U.S.C. 1983 lawsuit under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
20-399 Jung Hyun Cho, et al. v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process mortgage-securitization non-judicial-foreclosure property-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detainer Whether a state summary court has competent jurisdiction over an unlawful detainer action challenged by a bona fide property dispute arising from a no…
20-389 Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal?
20-396 Sheri Speer v. Michael Tieger, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied abstention abstention-doctrine abuse-of-process bankruptcy-code circuit-split civil-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy legal-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Second Circuit's decision in conflict with In re: Matthew N. Murray (Wilk Auslender LLP v Murray), Popular Auto, Inc. v. Reyes-Colon (In re Rey…
20-5781 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction habeas-corpus
20-338 Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the district court have subject matter jurisdiction over this case?
20-5696 Dan Grandberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure forfeiture-rule habeas-corpus judicial-notice limitations-period procedural-waiver state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the ordinary forfeiture rule, as codified in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, applies to the limitations period of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a)
20-337 Rosemary Ann Lynn v. Andrew George Brown, III, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction rico-statute service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Whether Appellees' refusal to serve Petitioner with summons and petition after passage of two years' and seven months divest the district court of per…
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen…
20-5553 Joseph E. Lawrence v. Montana Montana 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-misconduct public-records standing state-accountability subject-matter-jurisdiction Are the Montana Supreme Court, Montana Attorney General and Montana's lower courts obligated to abide by the express provisions of the Montana Constit…
20-5554 Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter juris…
20-5534 In Re Marcos Antonio Blancas 2020-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-3231 breach-of-agreement congress-powers congressional-powers district-court-jurisdiction government-agreement government-breach subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the government breaching an agreement resulted in the district court losing subject-matter-jurisdiction
20-5465 In Re Francisco Felix 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial
20-5442 Condra L. Smith v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law amount-in-controversy civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction interstate-litigation standing student-loan-fraud subject-matter-jurisdiction wage-garnishment Whether the courts can exercise jurisdiction over a case involving parties from multiple states and the minimum amount in controversy for diversity ju…
20-5443 Christopher Rondeau v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-alien due-process federal-law foreign-national legal-status legally-dead murder-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction Were the Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights violated?
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?
20-5367 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2020-08-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure district-court district-court-judgment frivolous-appeal good-faith good-faith-complaint judicial-immunity mandamus-petition subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-judges-have-immunity-for-lack-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction
20-170 Karen Chongah Han v. Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-discretion federal-courts judicial-estoppel legal-standing procedural-dismissal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be applied to defeat subject matter jurisdiction
20-152 Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction class-action fake-products federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-procedure marketing state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals erred in finding federal question jurisdiction over a state-law class action complaint alleging marketing of fake pet foo…
20-5289 Justin W. Sanderson v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Ohio 2020-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether this present petition should be liberally construed by this court as a petition for Writ of Mandamus or as an original request for a Writ of H…
20-122 Eric E. Taylor v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5-usc-3331 certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether due-process-of-law, 5-usc-3331, 14th-amendment, civil-rights, civil-procedure, standing
20-5256 Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court Did the Virginia Supreme Court and Chesapeake Circuit Court err in failing to establish jurisdiction over the subject matter?
20-90 Eugene Slone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Slone sufficiently meet his burden under Strickland
20-67 Delaney E. Smith, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contradictory-rulings due-process en-banc-panel federal-removal notice-of-appeal racial-discrimination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals forfeited subject matter jurisdiction
20-69 William O. Fuller, as Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Otis Fuller v. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction court-of-appeals federal-procedure hypothetical-jurisdiction res-judicata standing steel-company subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a Court of Appeals panel can, consistent with Steel Company v. Citizens for A Better Environment, avoid a res judicata bar by determining that…
20-5033 Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'Min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court Question not identified
20-7 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-remedies appeal-instructions blight-citation civil-procedure due-process fair-notice local-government municipal-law notice-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction Should appeal instructions have been included with the blight citation?
19-1460 Jan Major Mengedoht, Individually, and as Executor of the Carl A. Mengedoht Estate and as Trustee of the H C J Holdings Trust - Carl A. Mengedoht - H C J Holdings Trust v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-record assessment assessment-authority civil-procedure-jurisdiction conveyance estate-tax estate-tax-lien lien property-conveyance small-business-self-employed subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-delegation May a federal court exercise subject matter jurisdiction in an action to reduce to judgment an asserted estate tax lien case
19-8889 Hector Guagua-Alarcon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied IFP article-iii article-three due-process executive-branch executive-power federal-jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that jurisdiction exists?
19-1430 Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Amendment provides a remedy for ethics violations
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-1420 Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction
19-8801 Tichinia Jones, et al. v. Lamar Company, LLC Florida 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment binding-judgment civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-jurisdiction due-process legal-merits personal-jurisdiction state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
19-1408 James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton Third Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below ignored the requirements of FRCP Rule 12(c)
19-8738 Charles Clark v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-06-18 Denied IFP competent-jurisdiction constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment state-trial-court subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Due Process Clause violated where the State court was without subject-matter-jurisdiction to pronounc…
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 Whether freedom from arbitrary adjudicative procedures is a substantive element of liberty under federal law for non-custodial parents
19-8638 Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit review and discredit a previously entered Certified Copy of Order of Remand
19-1317 Efrain Areizaga v. ADW Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hobbs-act mediation-confidentiality retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States court of appeals affirm a decision that exceeds their authority and lacks subject matter jurisdiction
19-8513 Edward Javier Catano Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-trafficking due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-drug-law maritime-law pinkerton-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Does due process require a nexus between the defendant and the United States under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act?
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter jurisdiction to grant attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review; al…
19-1274 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process electronic-filing equal-access-to-courts fair-labor-standards-act federal-holiday federal-holidays legal-opinion state-government subject-matter-jurisdiction wage-compensation Whether the State of Tennessee Attorney General's legal opinion denying earned wages for a substituted federal holiday violates federal labor laws
19-8394 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have duty to hear 42-usc-1983 action challenging state-court rule
19-8366 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court have subject-matter jurisdiction to decide 41(g) motions for recovery of property that is unrelated to a criminal judgment on ap…
19-8311 John D. Dalen v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. South Carolina 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process foreclosure securitization standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Was Petitioner denied his Common Law Right to a trial by jury, and his right to due process of law
19-8234 Eric J. Davis v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2020-04-09 Denied IFP conviction court-jurisdiction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-finality petition-construction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether there can be a finality of judgement of conviction rendered against a criminal defendant, where the criminal court lacked subject-matter-juris…
19-1194 Jiahao Kuang, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act,civil-procedure,due-p due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief judicial-review military-affairs standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether courts can evade their constitutional and statutory duty to review military decisions under the so-called 'Mindes test', or whether claims see…
19-8037 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-litigation fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-allegations jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of Connecticut has acted unreasonably and in clear abuse of its discretion when it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to due process …
19-1090 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing, sua sponte, the complaint seeking judicial review of agency action under the Administrative Proce…
19-7850 Bobby Drew Autry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-error due-process false-imprisonment final-judgment habeas-corpus plea-bargain statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Does the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996 one year statute of limitations violate the suspension clause of the U.S. Const…
19-7792 In Re David Lopez 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial to the defendant
19-7660 Ronald Blue West v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion breach-of-duty causation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages duty-of-care federal-tort-claims-act prisoner-protection subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's civil rights and FTCA claims for failure to allege a physical injury
19-1005 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re…
19-7606 Robert McKinnon, III v. Florida Florida 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extrinsic-fraud federal-court federal-courts federal-petition habeas-corpus jurisdictional-default standing statutory-tolling subject-matter-jurisdiction Does statutory tolling as described in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(B) and (D) permit a petitioner's direct filing of second 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus …
19-7550 In Re Alexander Guice 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts florida jurisdictional-dispute legal-challenge south-carolina standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether a writ of prohibition or mandamus is warranted
19-964 Christopher Lawrence v. University Hospital, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity due-process federal-procedure interpleader interpleader-statute minimal-diversity pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 11th Circuit violated petitioners' rights as beneficiaries to allow and select enjoining siblings as claimants and real parties in a negli…
19-7435 In Re Robert N. Brooks 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-clause fdic-insured fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment indictment-clause notice-clause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-a-manifest-miscarriage-of-justice-occurred
19-885 Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied?
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…
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
19-7163 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have an affirmative duty to exercise jurisdiction over a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging a state court rule
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response Can an appeals court disregard the district court's procedural error and decide a COA application based on the underlying merits?
19-7009 Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court which had no jurisdiction over a case can dismiss it with prejudice
19-7002 Robert C. Denham, Jr. v. James Dzurenda, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-1332 42-usc-1983 amended-complaint amount-in-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-amount screening-order standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is whether or not Plaintiffs Reply Motions Affidavit to Screening Order dated 01-09-19 was timely, and satisfied the $75,000 amount-in-controversy req…
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…
19-744 Leslie T. Jackson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-dismissal artis-v-district-of-columbia civil-procedure due-process final-adjudication jurisdiction precedent-binding precedent-binding-effect-of res-judicata statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Issues being raised
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state district-court judge violated the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
19-6738 William Ardas Sarringar v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-competence procedural-default statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment When does the fundamental constitutional right to be tried by a court of competent jurisdiction cease to operate as a right, or is forfeited by a part…
19-6742 Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-11-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's sentence and re-impose a life sentence, violating double jeopardy?
19-6744 Kevin M. Merck v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bank-account-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law court-record-manipulation due-process fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute procedural-irregularity racketeering seizure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the seizure of the petitioner's bank account by Washington County, MN was lawful and justified based on the cited case of Cathy S. Jones v. Ke…
19-6726 In Re Billie Byrd 2019-11-22 Denied IFP aedpa-filing-limitations aedpa-limitations constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-treaties subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties-with-indians treaty-supremacy-clause Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject-matter-jurisdiction in criminal-cases due-to-provisions in tr…
19-6637 Gregory Cooper v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-counsel judicial-discretion right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Whether the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for due process when the State compels a defendant to testify against himself by threat of…
19-606 Ukraine v. Pao Tatneft District of Columbia 2019-11-12 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-enforcement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity international-arbitration new-york-convention sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-exception Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that: (1) all 160 signatories to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards …
19-6576 James Marvin Reed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-perry circuit-court-review district-court district-court-power eighth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge penson-review subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton waiver Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in ruling that the defendant waived his jurisdictional challenge by pleading guilty, despite the well-settled princip…
19-6526 In Re David Paul Worthington 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-1151-1153 aedpa aedpa-limitations article-1 article-6 criminal-procedure indian-law indian-treaties state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaties-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked subject-matter-jurisdiction in criminal-cases due-to-provisions-in-treat…
19-6482 Demetrius Dewayne Smith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP 2254-review 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction When a death-sentenced inmate obtains punishment-phase relief from the district court during federal habeas proceedings conducted pursuant to 28 U.S.C…
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question
19-498 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution fifth-amendment habeas-corpus immediate-release sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability
19-6268 Isabel Yero Grimon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three-courts burden-of-proof federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-validity judicial-precedent limited-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that federal jurisdiction is conclusively established whenever an indictment alleges a federal crime?
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
19-6240 John Lee Norris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction judicial-standing plea-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether the United States Court's for the Eighth circuit has failed to adhere to the accepted and usual course of Judicial proceedings
19-6225 Marc Pierre Hall v. Warden Andrews Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 district-court fundamental-errors habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent-analysis retroactive-statutory-interpretation savings-clause-28-usc-2241 statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation-28-usc-2255 subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court had proper subject matter jurisdiction in light of United States v. Cotton, 535 U.S. 625 (2002), Bailey v. United States, 5…
19-6169 In Re Anthony Brawner 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdiction mandamus maryland-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights venue Does the District of Columbia superior court have subject matter jurisdiction over crimes that happen in the State of Maryland?
19-6087 Atif Babar Malik v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton Do courts lack subject matter jurisdiction when alleged conduct falls outside the scope of the charged statute?
19-6074 Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule Whether the United States Court of Appeal and District Federal Court can sua sponte a case when plaintiff has not had a chance to file a complaint and…
19-346 Andrzej Madura, et ux. v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response Waived 15-usc-1635 due-process foreclosure mortgage-rescission non-purchase-money-mortgage rescission subject-matter-jurisdiction tila-disclosure truth-in-lending-act Whether the lender may decline to follow the prescribed procedure under the Truth in Lending Act after receiving notice of rescission
19-5943 In Re Nathan Wayne Smith 2019-09-16 Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act congressional-power constitutional-convention constitutional-limitations federal-criminal-statutes habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether the federal criminal statutes charged are unconstitutional
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…
19-306 Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky First Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts sitting in diversity should exercise their discretion to certify questions to state high courts when a state's courts are silen…
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and interstate commerce…
19-278 Pfizer Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law forfeiture jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a defendant's efforts to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction can result in forfeiture of an otherwise fully preserved challenge to p…
19-5756 In Re James Bryant 2019-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute
19-5684 In Re Kendall Dean Mitchell 2019-08-23 Pending Relisted (3)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaties treaty-jurisdiction treaty-with-indians Whether the filing limitations AEDPA apply to claims that state courts lacked of subject matter jurisdiction in criminal cases due to provisions in tr…
19-238 In Re Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. 2019-08-23 Denied appellate-review article-iii-standing civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction en-banc-review proposition-65 remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the remand order constitutes an appealable abuse of discretion for failing to reach or resolve the jurisdictional issues raised below
19-5680 Kenneth Taylor Curry v. Vancouver Housing Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech goldberg-hearing hearsay housing-authority housing-choice-voucher reasonable-accommodation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction violence-threat Whether a Vancouver Housing Authority Hearings Officer without original subject matter jurisdiction is ultra vires and failed to provide a Goldberg pr…
19-226 Noel L. Smith v. Diane Smith Carusos Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics procedural-due-process remand remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a U.S. District Court have subject-matter jurisdiction to grant a motion that admittedly has never been served?
19-217 DaVinci Aircraft, Inc. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived bivens-claim bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents civil-asset-forfeiture civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-act civil-rights discretionary-action espionage-act federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the exception for forfeitures created by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA) apply to goods seized in violation of the Fourth A…
19-5623 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-16 GVR IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-possession indictment knowingly-element rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction where the indictment for violating § 922(g)(1) did not charge the defendant with any off…
19-5603 Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Was defense counsel's advice constitutionally inadequate?
19-5559 In Re Arnold King 2019-08-12 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-power due-process extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus legal-standing memorandum-of-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court has the power to dismiss a case and discharge the relator where the case itself is against the law, as has been made by one …
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…
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction Does the Eighth Circuit's judgement and PER CURIAM AFFIRMANCE using Local Rule 47B AFFIRMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT OPINION of Case No. 18-2447 satis…
19-5435 Steven Eason v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the defendant's constitutional rights against double jeopardy are violated when multiple identical sexual battery charges are brought based on…
19-5370 Pedro Medina Castillon v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the federal court had proper pendent jurisdiction over state law claims
19-117 Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under the …
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court committed a Manifest error by Failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article III, subsection 2, and 38 U.S.C.…
18-9837 Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. Texas 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-code property-tax standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d)
18-1583 Lewis F. Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment article-i-powers civil-procedure constitutional-taxing-power direct-tax due-process judicial-estoppel standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-enforcement tax-power Can the district court violate the doctrine of judicial-estoppel
18-1566 Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti…
18-9680 Elester Middlebrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims Does a corroborated claim of actual-innocence constitute an extraordinary-circumstance that justifies reopening the habeas-proceedings to adjudicate t…
18-9584 William Earl Miller v. Arizona Arizona 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9512 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-culpability double-jeopardy dry-conspiracy due-process guilt indictment jury reasonable-foreseeability subject-matter-jurisdiction Who does the jury have to be in order to establish guilt or criminal culpability in all dry conspiracy crimes?
18-1456 William Mauldin, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Pauline Gibson, Deceased v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent-to-removal deception diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal rule-interpretation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts must dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction under FRCP 12(h)(3) when diversity jurisdiction is lacking, even after improper re…
18-9376 Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by their failure to address the jurisdictional defects that deprive them of subject-matter-jurisdicti…
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-1412 Lewis-Jay Porter v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction due to the court being defined as a 'foreign state' under FRCP Rule 4(j) and the Sove…
18-9192 Michael Balice v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 16th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment constitutional-limitations due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment tax tax-lien trial-by-jury Whether the grant of summary judgment was erroneous and improper due to factual disputes between the litigants
18-9201 Galen Lemar Amerson, et al. v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-rule civil-procedure conceivable-effect de-novo-review due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction testate-estate wills-and-trusts withdrawal-of-reference Does the bankruptcy court have subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioner's Florida counterclaims?
18-1394 Waterfront Marine Construction, Inc., et al. v. Heard Construction, Inc. Virginia 2019-05-06 Denied bid-protest contract-law federal-contract federal-procurement federal-regulations state-tort-action subject-matter-jurisdiction tucker-act Where a disappointed bidder to a federal contract fails to file a bid protest pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (2016), does a state trial …
18-9122 Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey applies to denial of access to court claims?
18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law and different from other circuits by implementing a heightened pleading standard?
18-1352 Commerce Bank v. Beverly Williamson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-court jurisdictional-requirements original-defendant removal removal-statute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a counterclaim defendant in a state court class action is any defendant' entitled to remove a class action which satisfies the jurisdictional …
18-9000 Johnnie Sterling, Jr. v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1257 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process post-conviction-relief skinner-v-switzer subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2519, where no reasonable jurist…
18-1337 Robert Rael, et ux. v. Patrick S. Layng, United States Trustee, Region 19 Tenth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-727 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction chapter-11 chapter-11-plan chapter-eleven-plan civil-procedure court-order debtor post-confirmation property-of-estate property-of-the-estate subject-matter-jurisdiction willful-disobedience Whether a bankruptcy court's subject matter jurisdiction over what was property of the bankruptcy estate continues after the confirmation of a Chapter…
18-8933 Zaamar Bersan Stevenson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehabilitation-process right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Mr. Stevenson was entitled to relief on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8886 In Re James Rodgers, Jr. 2019-04-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness Whether ACTR No. 92-601 is facially unconstitutional
18-1315 Hmong 1, et al. v. Lao People's Democratic Republic, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied alien-tort-statute cia genocide head-of-state-immunity heads-of-state heads-of-state-immunity secret-war state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction torture war-crimes Whether petitioners/survivors of the atrocities committed by the Laos communist government met their pleading burden under the Alien Tort Claims Act
18-1314 Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether Texas courts would hold a smartphone manufacturer liable for injuries and deaths caused by a driver distracted by the manufacturer's smartphon…
18-8817 Michael Clark v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradley-v-fisher civil-rights color-of-law common-law-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech judicial-immunity nixon-v-warner standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Northern District and Second Circuit Courts violate the Clark Family First Amendment and Common Law Rights related to the two fraudulent court…
18-8777 Salim Abdu Gould v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner was denied due process and the right to self-representation before the appointment of counsel and during the motions entertaine…
18-8729 Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter Whether the ambiguousness of the term 'material' within Title 18 USC 2252A(a)(2)(B) gives unintended breadth to District Courts to accept pleas of gui…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the decision of McQuiggin v. Perkins applies retroactively
18-8611 Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a cri…
18-8581 Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights
18-1236 S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Texas 2019-03-22 Denied amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure mandamus standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether Petitioners' due process right was violated when the Supreme Court of Texas summarily denied their petition for writ of mandamus without reaso…
18-8507 Randall Jennette v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1738 admiralty-law admiralty-maritime full-faith-and-credit maritime-contract relief-sought statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court Whether Tax Court had subject matter jurisdiction under its Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdictions to grant Appellee relief sought in the absence of maritim…
18-8477 Lester D. Fletcher v. Ashton Baldwin Carter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP ames-v-kansas case-remand civil-procedure civil-rights disability-accommodation-discrimination disability-discrimination due-process eeoc eeoc-v-united-airlines original-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court Does the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction allow parties to bring suit in any court with jurisdiction over the parties or subject matter?
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, se…
18-8408 Renee L. McCray v. John E. Driscoll, III, et al. Maryland 2019-03-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure-action remand standing standing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Appeals of Maryland erred when it denied the Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari
18-1180 New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce a Medicare Administrative Law Judge's order
18-8373 Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Could a Hazel-Atlas motion be used to attack a criminal conviction?
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process antitrust claims involving patent fraud lies in the regional circuits, not the Federal Circuit
18-1141 Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine New Hampshire 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine to inspect and enforce violations under the New Hampshire Contr…
18-8272 Juliette Fairley v. Don Ford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement district-court diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals violate the 14th Amendment when it upheld Petitioner Juliette's dismissal which was based on the District Court's…
18-8237 Harry Eugene Briscoe v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se-petition stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether this U.S.S. Ct. will certify the conflict of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
18-1118 Kim Kerrigan v. Qualstar Credit Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction presumption-against-jurisdiction procedural-presumption removal removal-jurisdiction standing standing-challenge state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction washington-law Whether the presumption against federal court subject matter jurisdiction is rebutted by state procedural law
18-1076 In Re Robert K. Hudnall 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a State Supreme Court with only appellate jurisdiction can exercise personal jurisdiction without proper service of process, take subject matt…
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.
18-7922 Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's Subject-Matter Jurisdiction claim
18-7891 Leslie Ann Haymond v. Helmand Investment, LLC Virginia 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parrish-v-federal-nat-mortg-association pro-se-litigation standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detainer Did the Court error when disregarding the maxim of stare decisis et non quieta movere
18-7760 Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its subject-matter jurisdiction by denying a certificate of appealability based on its assessment of the underlying cl…
18-997 Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la…
18-948 In Re Grand Jury Subpoena District of Columbia 2019-01-22 Denied Relisted (4) 18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1604 contempt-sanctions criminal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia jurisdictional-exceptions sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the FSIA grant foreign states sovereign immunity from American criminal jurisdiction?
18-7380 Ricardo Glover v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge liberty prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-constitution Whether a person is deprived of their liberty when they are forcefully brought before a court in chains and shackles by the prosecution, the prosecuti…
18-904 King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the proper procedure for handling situations in which jurisdictional and merits facts overlap?
18-905 Mastrogiovanni Schorsch & Mersky, P.C., et al. v. Edward Mandel Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied bankruptcy comity comity-federalism due-process federalism receivership state-court-jurisdiction state-property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Is a federal court authorized to invade a state court's exclusive province to appoint, instruct and control its own appointed receivers, by reinterpre…
18-7325 John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison Petitioner upon an unconstitutional statute?
18-7248 Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition
18-838 Scott Kaseburg, et al. v. Port of Seattle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied civil-procedure federal-interest federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption federal-statute grable-type-jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title railroad-easement state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction trails-act Whether Grable-type subject matter jurisdiction exists where (A) it is undisputed that the Plaintiffs' state law cause of action for quiet title does …
18-833 Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f…
18-842 Gilbert Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied assistant-us-attorney attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process fraud government-negligence jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction us-attorney Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a U.S. District Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over a criminal prosecution wh…
18-7178 David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark whether-the-court-erred-in-its-previous-construction-of-the-statute
18-820 Teresa Y. Weinacker v. National Loan Acquisitions Company Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence legal-precedent plausibility-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction twombly-iqbal Whether lower courts can disregard precedent, the Constitution, and federal rules
18-786 Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. Texas 2018-12-20 Denied child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction over my daughter and I when they issued a child support order
18-7115 Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the fact that the § 2255 remedy failed to test and determine one of two Ineffective Assistance of Trial Counsel issues satisfies the phrase 'i…
18-7119 Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
18-775 Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction Whether the order is void due to administrative error and lack of jurisdiction
18-7066 Raymond Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel en-banc-review jurisdiction petition-for-rehearing rehearing rule-60b6 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction wilkins-precedent Whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate Rule 60(b)(6) motion
18-7011 John S. Myzer v. George W. Bush, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure final-order personal-jurisdiction prejudice-standard service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction May a district court dismiss a case with prejudice that has not begun?
18-6999 John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher Sixth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide if Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state court …
18-716 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. v. EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split conflict-among-circuits conflict-with-other-courts direct-effect foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-corporate-structure international-investment investment-fund investment-loss judicial-restructuring jurisdictional-challenge overseas-conduct sovereign-instrumentality subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that there is a 'direct effect' in the United States under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act when the plain…
18-6864 Thomas Whitlow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-complaint criminal-complaint-validity false-statements fraud-on-court indictment perjury probable-cause reckless-disregard subject-matter-jurisdiction sworn-affidavit void-judgment Is the criminal complaint void when it was based on statements from Special Agent Terrance Taylor that were knowingly false and exhibited reckless dis…
18-636 The Pure Presbyterian Church of Washington, et al. v. The Grace of God Presbyterian Church Virginia 2018-11-16 Dismissed church-property civil-procedure constitutional-competence ecclesiastical-abstention establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise merger-analysis neutral-principles religious-freedom religious-organizations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the trial court's determination that Grace Presbyterian was the successor church to Pure Presbyterian, which was held to have been extinguishe…
18-620 Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state trial court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-627 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-statutory-causes-of-action constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a district court's conclusion that service of process by Certified Mail is insufficient under Federal Rules of …
18-6579 In Re Patricia Ann McQuarry 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointment-affidavit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-irregularity constitutional-law constitutional-result due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedies remedy secret-grand-jury standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unsigned-indictment vague-statutes Can an unconstitutional action by the government bring about a 'constitutional result?
18-595 James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in creating a special pro se pleading standard for cognitively-disabled litigants
18-580 Nu Image, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement declaratory-relief fraud fraud-claims intentional-misrepresentation labor-management-relations-act negligent-misrepresentation subject-matter-jurisdiction textron-lycoming Do federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act over a complaint for intentional a…
18-550 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-544 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act extends to an individual for acts taken in the individual's fo…
18-6429 Victor Dewayne White v. Ector County Appraisal District Texas 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion california-v-larue civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-law judicial-ruling jurisdiction legal-procedure standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Texas Courts abuse their discretion when they ruled contrary to established Federal Law, or as now ruled contrary to this Honorable Court's Ru…
18-528 Elias Kifle, et al. v. Jemal Ahmed Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied civil-procedure district-court diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction rule-19 standard-of-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the standard of review for a District Court's determination that a required party is dispensable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19?
18-6386 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal due-process emotional-distress gross-negligence motion-to-dismiss reconsideration standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred
18-448 Estate of Jerry West, Deceased v. Department of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447 38-usc-511 administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction probate-exception remand subject-matter-jurisdiction veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Kentucky probate court has exclusive jurisdiction over the disability award under the 'probate exception' to federal-court jurisdiction, w…
18-397 William G. Clowdis, Jr. v. Virginia Board of Medicine Virginia 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process full-faith-and-credit medical-licensing modes-of-procedure sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires Whether the Virginia Board of Medicine violated the Full Faith and Credit Clause by declaring a physician a convicted felon based on a felony charge t…
18-385 Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC District of Columbia 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa Whether the lower courts disregarded this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeated th…
18-6098 Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-09-25 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (5)IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-subject-matter-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act organic-act prospective-decisions seminole-country seminole-tribe state-waiver-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court clearly established the prospective decisions that Seminole Country written in Congress Organic Act invokes the Major Crimes…
18-6050 Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest Whether the states have reached incongruent results when interpreting this Court's decision due to a radical defect that occurred after the petitioner…
18-6046 Michael Skillern v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud did-the-district-court-violate-the-sixth-amendment
18-6034 In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case
18-5990 Omar Odale Brockman v. Erick Balcarcel, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA aedpa-statute-of-limitations certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction us-v-cotton Does petitioner Brockman properly assert that Sup. Ct. R. 10(c) warrants him certiorari relief?
18-5991 Johnny Ray Bennett v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether the 2002 enactments violate the ex-post-facto-clauses,whether the trier-of-fact lost-subject-matter-jurisdiction,whether ex-post-facto-violati…
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption issues being raised
18-316 Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings Whether the court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction over the case
18-5920 Ronnie R. Rolland v. Carnation Building Services, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-estoppel misconduct-claims reasonable-accommodation retaliation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction termination Whether the appeals court ruling conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions on important matters and cannot survive application of the correct le…
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in affirming the substitution of the United States for Hillary Clinton an…
18-5788 James Everett Dutschke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as a…
18-5799 In Re Robert N. Smithback 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining selective-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-by-jury Whether Smithback is being deprived of his liberty without due process of law
18-5714 Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information
18-234 Guadalupe Chaidez Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied civil-rights discretionary-function-exception due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-tort-claims-act intentional-torts law-enforcement-proviso sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act restricts the law enforcement proviso's waiver of sovereign immunity for i…
18-5697 James R. Reece v. L. Ray Whitley, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage indigent-prisoner new-trial post-trial pre-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a post-trial pre-appeal motion for new trial is a critical stage of state criminal proceedings protected by right-to-counsel
18-5702 Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that…
18-204 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fraud independent-action independent-actions lack-of-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit a federal district court from exercising jurisdiction over an independent action challenging the validity of…
18-5492 In Re David Louis Colson 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court Whether the superior court of Arizona had jurisdiction to render the judgments against the petitioner in a case where the state was a party
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-156 James H. Brady v. John Goldman, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived air-rights attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-transaction constitutional-rights court-injunction court-interference due-process false-statements filing-injunction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Was the deprivation of the right to sue for damages against lawyers and law firms who schemed to steal contractual air rights unconstitutional?
18-119 Gotech International Technology Limited, et al. v. Nagravision SA Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure defendant-jurisdiction due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-claims federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-defendants jurisdiction-pleading personal-jurisdiction pleading pleading-requirements rule-4k2 subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff invoking jurisdiction under Rule 4(k)(2) must plead that the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of gen…
18-5382 Muriel Fiedler v. Mace Brindley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1441 civil-procedure civil-procedure-removal diversity-jurisdiction due-process forum-defendant-rule judicial-bias remand remand-procedures removal removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioner's case
18-115 Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-5316 Susan Wells Vaughan v. Jennifer Vaughan, et al. North Carolina 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absolute-immunity child-neglect child-neglect-cases-recusal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-initiations judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction troxel-v-granville Whether a judge who regularly participates in unlawful ex parte initiations of child neglect cases should recuse herself from hearing a challenge to t…
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, …
18-51 Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court Did the Eighth Circuit have jurisdiction to adjudicate Case No. 17-3679?
18-5196 Jeffrey P. Corbin v. Federal Express, dba FedEx Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination evidentiary-rulings retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Whether filing a Title VII action to which the underlying EEOC charge failed to assert retaliation, an amended complaint allegation asserting retaliat…
18-5142 Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan Michigan 2018-07-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the evidence acquired during Mr. Heximer's illegal detention is inadmissible under clearly-established law
25A231 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete dissolution judgment-enforcement personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit Whether a federal district court can reacquire subject matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction over a dissolved entity without new claims or pro…