| 25-1122 |
American Telecom Company, L.L.C. v. Republic of Lebanon |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-03-26 |
Pending |
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appellate-review civil-procedure discovery judicial-recusal newly-discovered-evidence summary-dismissal |
1. Did the District Court unreasonably deny Plaintiff's arguments that newly discovered evidence should require a) reversal of prior dismissal; and b)… |
| 25-6659 |
Anthony Allen v. Debra B. Walker, Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, et al. |
Illinois |
2026-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure final-order mandamus-statute nolle-prosequi summary-dismissal |
I. Whether the Appellate Court Did Have Jurisdiction to Consider Notice of Appeal, When the Circuit Court Did Not Follow the Mandamus Statute For Summ… |
| 25-825 |
Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal |
1. Whether a district court may categorically stay all
discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil
action on a closed record where adjudicat… |
| 25-6147 |
Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-remedies freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review pro-se-petition summary-dismissal |
Whether the court of Appeals may summarily dismiss a Petitioner's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) claim on the ground that "any issues which could b… |
| 25-5871 |
Isaiah Stacy Alstad v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance summary-dismissal |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily
Dismissing Ground One, Conflict of Interest claim and did the Eight… |
| 25A372 |
Derrel L. Thomas v. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., et al. |
Florida |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-jurisdiction discretionary-review district-court-appeal florida-supreme-court judicial-review summary-dismissal |
Question not identified. |
| 24A923 |
Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal |
Question not identified. |
| 24-898 |
John Doe Corporation v. Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C. |
Tennessee |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement state-court summary-dismissal |
Whether, in holding that a state trial court can summarily dismiss a plaintiff's complaint without attempting to provide notice to the plaintiff befor… |
| 24-665 |
John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process judicial-violations procedural-rules rule-60d summary-dismissal third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit deprive me of due process when, prior to any briefing in that current appellate case before it, the Third Circuit summarily … |
| 24-462 |
Mark Kelly v. Daniel Dorman, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing citation-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-precedent summary-dismissal unpublished-dispositions |
Federal circuit courts ' local rules governing
citation of unpublished dispositions prior to January
1, 2007 for purposes of establishing facts and … |
| 24-5099 |
Brandan C. Bellamy v. Chanse Houghton, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hipaa hipaa-privacy malicious-prosecution privacy section-1983 standing summary-dismissal |
1. Whether Petitioner should be given another chance to make another amended complaint.
2. Whether Respondents shall be held liable for violating Pet… |
| 23-6634 |
Andres Colon-Miranda v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process litigation-strategy package-doctrine sentencing-guidelines summary-dismissal ussg-3d1.2 |
A. What is the appropriate standard of review when an appellate court improperly grants a motion for summary dismissal that has the practical effect o… |
| 22-7230 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence federal-petition habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process successive-petition summary-dismissal |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5703 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations summary-dismissal |
Whether it is inconsistent with this Court's Slack v. McDaniel 824 U.S. 473 (2008) standard for a court of appeals to decline to issue a certificate o… |
| 22-5060 |
Fred Auston Wortman, III v. Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process inferences judicial-procedure plea-agreement pleadings standard-of-review summary-dismissal summary-judgment |
1. Whether the District Court erred by summarily dismissing Petitioner's Complaint by failing to accept as true all of Petitioner's factual allegation… |
| 21-7629 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
article-iii-judicial-officer civil-procedure de-novo-review diversity-jurisdiction due-process full-and-fair-review magistrate-referral report-and-recommendation standing substantial-rights summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari |
I. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari on appealability.
II. Whether the district court should provide complete record on appeal (ROA)… |
| 21-7326 |
Edison Burgos-Montes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-motion record-development summary-dismissal |
Whether a court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability to a prisoner whose 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion is summarily denied even though the rec… |
| 21-6495 |
Pedro J. Amaro v. New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion prison-conditions procedural-fairness standing summary-dismissal |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, under the "abuse of discretion" standard of review, should have reversed the district court's judgment sum… |
| 21-6271 |
Austin Myers v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal |
I. Do the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corre… |
| 21-49 |
James Tolle v. Rockwell Collins Control Technologies, Inc., dba Rockwell Collins, Inc., dba United Technologies Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process factual-allegations free-speech judicial-review pleading-standards presumption-of-truth rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-dismissal |
I. Without any indication from the District Court's Opinion that it found a defect in Plaintiff's pleadings or factual allegations of his Complaint, t… |
| 20-8308 |
Wilhelmina Montgomery v. NBC Television, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use jury-trial pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process service-of-process summary-dismissal summary-judgment visual-evidence |
As I, the pro se Plaintiff-Appellant pointed out in my First Amended Complaint I.
(Doc. 9) and in my Second Amended Complaint (Doc. 51) two (2) differ… |
| 20-7005 |
Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal |
A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW IN ALLOWING THE DISTRICT COURT TO SUMMARILY DISMISS PETITIONER'S MOTION TO REOPEN A CASE PURS… |
| 20-644 |
Terrence Pendergrass v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal |
I. Contrary to the holding in Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of app… |
| 19-7788 |
Ulises Corrales Vega v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-jurists split standing summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari |
I. DID THE PETITIONER RAISE A SUBSTANTIAL CONSTITUTIONAL
CLAIM THAT WAS NOT SO PATENTLY FALSE OR FRIVOLOUS AS TO
WARRANT SUMMARY DISMISSAL? |
| 19-1004 |
Robert James Jaffe v. Brad Sherman, United States Congressman |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
certiorari-review checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-oversight due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct summary-dismissal supervisory-power supreme-court-discretion void-judgment |
(1) Congress delegated the US Supreme Court justices the discretion to choose the petition for certiorari cases they will grant and Congress has direc… |
| 18-6933 |
Asia Johnson v. Children Youth and Families |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process negligence pro-se-litigation standing state-agency-liability summary-dismissal |
Was ordered to Dismiss my complaint summarily affirmed lower court decision |