substantive-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7247 Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights 1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things? 2. Whether procedures the United State…
24A703 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process personal-safety pretrial-release substantive-rights For a criminally accused, such as the Applicant/Petitioner, conditionally released subject to certain terms and conditions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 314…
24-34 Ricky-Dean Horton v. PG&E Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 9th-circuit bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-discretion procedural-fairness statutory-interpretation substantive-rights 1. Whether the proceedings in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court N.D. Cal. failed to follow the rules and procedures for a fair and just determination of Peti…
23-7812 Akohomen Ighedoise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors plea-agreement post-sentencing-rehabilitation prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-departure substantive-rights 1) Whether a Judge abuses his/her discretion when there is a determination that post-sentencing rehabilitative efforts are evidence of an attempt to d…
23-1124 Judson Hawkins, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Ohio 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-agency constitutional-interpretation due-process procedural-rights property-rights substantive-rights (1) Does the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantee a substantive right to prevail agai…
23-795 Gregory Abelar, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements employment-law gilmer-v-interstate-johnson-lane substantive-rights The question presented in this Petition is whether an arbitration agreement can be used to bar an employee from pursuing a claim under the Age Discrim…
22-7164 Paul A. Bernard v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-review opposing-parties procedural-rules standing state-procedure substantive-rights Whether the State of Michigan's complete failure to ensure judicial impartiality, as evidenced by the lack of procedure to address allegations of judi…
22-7028 John L. Dickerson, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jane Matlock, Deceased v. Emmanuel Noel Cruz Tancinco, et al. Arkansas 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-administration judicial-procedure medical-malpractice procedural-rights standing substantive-rights wrongful-death Whether the petitioner's substantive and procedural due process rights were violated when the Circuit Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed th…
21-7696 In Re Stephen Harmon 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-rights constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process federal-statutory-authority harmless-error standing statutory-authority substantive-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, which is not a harml…
21-6379 Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights Whether Petitioner had a Constitutional right to be informed and/or Notified of 'right to appeal' after erroneously being sentenced, via 'corrected or…
21-5114 Mario Daniels v. Florida Florida 2021-07-16 Denied IFP aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da…
20-8130 Jasma McCullough v. Shaylonda Herron, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-abuse child-abuse-investigation due-process medical-diagnosis procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process substantive-rights Whether a child abuse investigator can give a medical diagnosis/opinion to the court without a Doctors opinion to remove a child
20-1140 Angela W. DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied appeal appeal-rights civil-procedure consolidation due-process final-judgment pro-se-litigant rule-42-consolidation rules-enabling-act self-representation substantive-right substantive-rights Whether a Rule 42 consolidation can deprive a party of a substantive right—the right to an appeal from a final judgment—when the Rules Enabling Act pr…
20-5756 Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights Whether the Second Circuit should have finished certain assigned court proceedings to protect the due process rights and substantive rights of the pet…
19-8894 Michael Halliburton v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics party-standing procedural-rights procedural-rules professional-responsibility substantive-rights Should the determinations of the Board of Judicial Conduct - responsible by statute and by the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules for maintaining the integ…
19-7858 Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai…
19-785 James Huff v. Telecheck Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied article-iii-standing concrete-injury consumer-reporting-agency consumer-rights credit-determinations fair-credit-reporting-act procedural-rights substantive-information substantive-rights Whether a consumer has standing to sue a credit reporting agency for withholding substantive information in the consumer's file
19-6425 Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-10-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post-conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found him G…
18A1360 Reginald A. Richardson, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete due-process florida-appellate-procedure per-curiam-affirmance procedural-rights substantive-rights supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether a per curiam affirmance without a written opinion by a Florida District Court of Appeal violates a litigant's procedural and substantive due p…
18-8134 Ramon Vasquez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process false-conviction fundamental-rights liberty-interest substantive-rights Whether 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9543 (a)(1)(i), as applied by the court violated Vasquez's Substantive Rights of Due Process by impinging collateral civil and …
18-7794 John M. Krott v. Scott May, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest-validity backdated-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabricated-warrant fabrication habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge standing substantive-rights warrant warrant-fabrication Whether the petitioner's substantive due process rights were violated when the courts dismissed his habeas petition despite the existence of an active…
18-6523 Renee D. Bell v. Orlando Health, Inc., dba Winnie Palmer Hospital Florida 2018-10-31 Dismissed IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-procedure-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection pre-trial-conference procedural-due-process procedural-rights right-to-redress substantive-rights Whether dismissal based on failure to meet a pre-trial conference is a drastic action, and where court access is barred prior to the dismissal that th…