| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Presumed Complete |
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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… |