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24-1005 Nathan Young v. Burton W. Wiand, As Receiver for Oasis International Group Ltd., Oasis Management, LLC and Satellite Holdings Company Ninth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied jurisdiction non-party personal-communications receiver standing subpoena Does a sole member and shareholder of a nonparty LLC, who specially appeared in the lower court proceedings, have standing to appeal a federal receive…
23-6294 Gregory I. Ezeani v. Bridgett Kelly, Union County College Human Resources Division Third Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-records impersonation legal-procedure privacy privacy-rights subpoena subpoena-fraud unlawful-search Whether the pro se's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the unauthorized disclosure of h…
23-6063 Kieffer Michael Simmons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment judicial-immunity subpoena witness witness-subpoena Whether Simmons should have been entitled to judicial immunity for his subpoenaed witness
23-202 James William Hall v. Tammy O'Brien, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct standing subpoena subpoena-service summons Right to oral argument before dismissal
22-1215 Darren Thomas Delafield v. Gerard R. Vetter, Acting United States Trustee Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied attorney-client-privilege bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-sanctions due-process judicial-discretion non-compensatory-punitive-damages professional-conduct sanctions subpoena Did the Bankruptcy Court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Delafield for asserting attorney-client privilege on behalf of his clients?
22-899 Jason Smith v. Arizona Arizona 2023-03-16 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony forensic-analysis sixth-amendment subpoena testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to present testimony by a substitute expert conveying the testimonial statements of a nontest…
22-6123 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-blackmail judicial-independence judicial-misconduct special-master subpoena whistleblower Where the U.S. Court of Appeals did not properly and appropriately proceeded with two consolidated interlocutory appeals on the District Court's order…
22-57 Dean Allen Steeves, Acting Trustee of Brother's Keeper Ministries v. Internal Revenue Service Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived church-organization constitutional-law constitutional-mandate integrated-auxiliary iRS-subpoena jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge non-organization-private-church procedural-error subpoena substantive-law Whether the U.S. District and U.S. Appellate Court usurped jurisdiction and declined to exercise jurisdiction by denying Petitioner's Motion to Quash …
21-1543 Jane Doe, aka Beeism v. Jomy Sterling Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (4) anonymous-speech civil-procedure first-amendment online-platforms standard-of-review subpoena What is the proper standard of review to be applied in determining whether a party may obtain a subpoena compelling the identification an anonymous sp…
21-7215 Clayton Walker v. Freeman's Electric Service, Inc., et al. South Dakota 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights cross-examination disputable-facts due-process federal-statute medical-records subpoena witness-examination Does the Petitioner have the right to his own medical records after they are subpoenaed, and when those records are not given to the petitioner by the…
21-7189 Deimeyon Xavier Allen v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-probable-cause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-be-present subpoena Is the Petitioner afforded due process when filing his Application For Certificate Of Probable Cause?
21-7018 Jose Fuentes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied IFP character-evidence criminal-procedure deposition due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense medical-records subpoena trial-counsel witness-testimony Was counsel's failure to subpoena an important witness considered ineffective assistance of trial counsel?
20-1727 James David O'Brien v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-ruling civil-procedure federal-agency immunity legal-interpretation proffer-agreement subpoena testimony testimony-protection Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit err in deciding that a proponent of testimony pursuant to a proffer agreement is not lat…
20-1474 Joseph Colone v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure discovery-rules evidentiary-privilege judicial-subpoena judicial-truth-seeking non-governmental-litigant stored-communications-act subpoena truth-seeking Whether federal statutes must contain express privilege language before courts may decide that Congress intended the statute to create an evidentiary …
20-1141 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appellate …
20-6649 El Aemer El Mujaddid v. Andrew Brewer, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-remedy due-process state-actors statute-of-limitations subpoena subpoena-abuse Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 18 U.S.C. § 1595 create a damages remedy against state actors for abuse of invalid subpoena?
20-801 Frank DeLucia v. Greenbuild, LLC, et al. New York 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment subpoena witness-appearance Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United State Constitution, 5s Amendment and 14th Amendment to punish a party by dismissing his pro…
20-770 John Nypl v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure federal-law federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-deference motion-to-quash non-party-witness nonparty-witness rule-45 subpoena subpoena-compliance Whether the applicable burden on a moving-party seeking to quash the subpoena of a non-party witness under Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(d)(8) should be decided
20-650 Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH v. RWE Trading Americas Inc. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure corporate-control discovery discovery-compliance document-search evidence-sufficiency judicial-discretion possession-custody-control reasonable-search subpoena subpoena-standard Whether the district court applied the wrong standard in concluding that the subpoena target's search was adequate and quashing the subpoena
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview Whether an attorney provided effective assistance of counsel
20-5044 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena?
19-1311 Douglas Lynn Kirk v. Texas Texas 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence-subpoena government-agency ineffective-assistance legal-procedure mitigating-evidence public-records subpoena Whether a criminal-defense attorney who requests critical defensive evidence from a government agency but fails to subpoena the evidence after the req…
19-1142 Kendall R. Carter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-subscriber-information ip-address privacy privacy-interest subpoena third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol (IP) address and internet subscriber information
19-7975 Glenn Myer v. All Dulles Area Muslim Society Virginia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights,pro-se,due-process,court-rules,subpoe court-rules due-process judicial-procedure legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant standing subpoena Does Virginia have the right to discriminate against a Pro Se litigant and violate their Civil Rights, US Supreme Court Rulings, Court rules
19-1006 Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California 2020-02-11 Denied communication-contents constitutional-rights constitutional-subpoena contempt criminal-defendant-rights privacy privacy-protection service-provider-disclosure service-providers stored-communications-act subpoena Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to subpoena service providers and force them to turn over the contents of their account holder…
19-715 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Mazars USA, LLP, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-05 Judgment Issued Amici (1) civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-authority due-process executive-privilege legislative-purpose separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority subpoena subpoena-power Whether the Committee has the constitutional and statutory authority to issue this subpoena
19-635 Donald J. Trump v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of the County of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response Waived article-2 article-ii article-two constitutional-law criminal-investigation executive-power grand-jury-subpoena immunity president presidential-immunity separation-of-powers subpoena supremacy-clause Whether this subpoena violates Article II and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution
19-6585 Gelu Topa v. Almonte Kerbs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct probable-cause public-defender subpoena video-evidence Why was there no video of the arrest/incident?
19-6452 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court Should a writ of mandamus be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity violated an earlier subpoena for records?
19-5354 Raheem Brown v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-ruling eyewitness-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington subpoena Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificate of Appealabili…
18-9437 In Re Steven Weste 2019-05-28 Denied IFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-privacy government-subpoena privacy-rights subpoena warrant-requirement Does the government's use of a pretrial subpoena to obtain a defendant's historical cell-site location information (CSLI) from a wireless carrier viol…
18-1242 Endre' Glenn v. Nordic Services, Inc. Washington 2019-03-25 Denied arbitration arbitration-procedure due-process equal-protection material-evidence material-testimony reasonable-opportunity reasonable-opportunity-to-prepare subpoena subpoena-duces-tecum washington-state-law Whether contractor and subcontractor violated homeowner's due process rights by ignoring subpoena and arbitrator's order, depriving homeowner of mater…
18-8221 Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel by counsel's failure to adequately investigate the facts of the case, interview eyew…
18-7859 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement standing subpoena warrantless-arrest Whether defective summons/subpoena (without authorizing authority, name or signature) attached herein render the indictment defective?
18-1020 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Communicar, Inc., et al. New York 2019-02-06 Denied case-consolidation civil-procedure Conflict-of-interest consolidation Discovery due-process Examination-before-trial judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-review pro-se-litigation standing subpoena Subpoena-Duces-Tecum Whether consolidation of three separate cases without a motion and overriding by another judge is legal and ethical
18-5906 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. David Weiss Second Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech medical-records patent standing subpoena takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance Whether a non-party subpoena recipient is automatically entitled to recover significant expenses incurred in responding to a subpoena before a court o…
18-5602 Stephen D. Leonard v. Florida Florida 2018-08-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process records standing state-courts subpoena transcripts Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to probe a constitutional demand for records and transcripts of the proceedings on app…
18-5456 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou…
18-45 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied appellate-process civil-procedure-subpoena civil-rights due-process federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-discretion marbury-v-madison pecuniary-interest standing subpoena subpoena-violation Whether Petitioner's case relating to Federal Judge violating the subpoena issue allows him to by-pass the appellate process to petition the Supreme C…