| 25-920 |
Louis Vargas, fka Louis Galynsky v. Vincent Rodriguez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
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civil-rights due-process peonage-claim pro-se-litigation supplemental-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's federal peonage claim and denying procedural due process rights for a pro se litigant |
| 25A455 |
Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Application |
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badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop |
Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits racially discriminatory traffic enforcement as a modern badge or incident of slavery |
| 25-5798 |
Mikhael Y. Lerman v. Celine E. Lerman |
California |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment |
Whether California Family Code § 2550 violates Equal Protection and Due Process rights and constitutes an unconstitutional taking or involuntary servi… |
| 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… |
| 24-1131 |
Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-05 |
Denied |
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circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking vic… |
| 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… |
| 23-7525 |
Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment |
Is the State of Louisiana barred by the Thirteenth Amendment from punishing involuntary servitude at hard labor for a class of offenders without due c… |
| 23-1138 |
Angela Williams, et al. v. Joseph Lombardo, Governor of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment article-iii-standing causation civil-procedure civil-rights government-liability section-1983 standing thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims-protection-act |
Whether codefendants in a lawsuit can be treated as independent third parties not before the court for purposes of Article III standing traceability |
| 23-6665 |
Ole Hougen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
badges-of-slavery bodily-injury civil-rights congressional-power criminal-law federal-criminal-law federalism hate-crimes race-discrimination thirteenth-amendment |
Whether Congress's power to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude authorizes Congress to criminalize ass… |
| 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 |
| 22-7634 |
Alan Headman v. Camille Headman, aka Camille Bromley |
Utah |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
13th-amendment alimony alimony-servitude civil-rights court-coercion due-process involuntary-servitude jury-trial pre-nuptial-agreement thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Supreme Court should order the use of a 'Headman Deference' doctrine for alimony-related servitude |
| 22-539 |
Juliet Anilao, et al. v. Thomas J. Spota, III, Individually and as District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation first-amendment prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Whether a prosecutor can be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for bringing charges that violate the First and Thirteenth Amendments |
| 22-6275 |
Dalton Alonzo Dixon v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment citizenship civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-labor-program government-program involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the statutory presumption of consent when participating in a government program violates the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and… |
| 22-5651 |
In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El |
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2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner, a naturalized U.S. citizen of African descent, was unlawfully detained and deprived of his constitutional rights |
| 22-5512 |
Maurice Diggins v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-249 district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction public-interest public-interest-prosecution racially-motivated-assault substantial-justice thirteenth-amendment |
Does a United States district court have jurisdiction under the Thirteenth Amendment for a racially motivated assault prosecution under 18 USC Sec. 24… |
| 22-91 |
Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav… |
| 21-1408 |
Peter Efo v. Diane Fondjo |
Maryland |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
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13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-order damages due-process employment-law labor labor-rights restitution thirteenth-amendment |
Whether a Court Order for refund of paid labor cost for work ordered by an employer and was completed by a laborer violates the U.S.C. Amendment XIII … |
| 21-215 |
Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process government-consent petition-for-redress second-amendment self-defense thirteenth-amendment |
Does petitioner need the government's consent to petition the government for redress of his grievance |
| 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 … |
| 20-1558 |
Vinay Yadav v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
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civil-rights conspiracy-against-civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ninth-amendment sixth-amendment thirteenth-amendment |
Whether COA/Texas-courts contravene the U.S. Constitution and Federal laws |
| 20-1500 |
Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment |
At what point does a student become an 'employee' for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an e… |
| 20-6847 |
Christopher Bryan Torres v. Brad Livingston, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights involuntary-servitude legal-rights prison-labor pro-se pro-se-complaint section-1983 thirteenth-amendment |
Do 13th Amendment slaves, or those under involuntary servitude, have legal rights when filing pro se § 1983 complaints for serious injuries received f… |
| 20-698 |
Alan Headman v. Royal I. Hansen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inadequate-forum involuntary-servitude judicial-immunity thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the lack of 'specific' terms within a written agreement should prevent state court officers from imposing terms of servitude |
| 20-288 |
ALCR, LLC v. Linda W. Swain, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
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business-operation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-order involuntary-servitude private-property thirteenth-amendment |
Whether a court order requiring the owner of private property to operate a business on the private property violates the involuntary servitude provisi… |
| 20-181 |
Daniel L. Miles v. Kristine Svinicki, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights class-action class-certification discriminatory-hiring due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit panel majority's decision conflicts with the Thirteenth and Fifth Amendments |
| 19-6044 |
Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment |
Does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B)(vi) (IRC §42) restriction … |
| 19-5989 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-09-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity |
Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi… |
| 19-5841 |
Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment |
Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla… |
| 19-124 |
Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentence criminal-sentencing dred-scott due-process emancipation involuntary-servitude judicial-relief thirteenth-amendment |
Does duly convicted include duly sentenced, and did petitioner's Thirteenth Amendment enslavement end when he discharged from his Thirteenth Amendment… |
| 18A1210 |
Marshall Martinez v. Todd Thomas, Warden |
Arizona |
2019-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
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civil-rights constitutional-interpretation incarceration jurisdiction legal-status thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the continued incarceration of an individual who claims to be improperly classified as a 'slave' rather tha… |
| 18-9250 |
Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment |
Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case |
| 18-7392 |
In Re James Rudnick |
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2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Respondent has valid authority to punish the Applicant and keep him incarcerated without a valid conviction |
| 18-787 |
Robert Lee Rhoe, II v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement |
Maryland |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment child-support civil-rights dna dna-rights due-process economic-enslavement liberty paternity-testing property takings thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Custodial Parent and MCOCSE's actions in economically enslaving the Petitioner through child support and U.S. citizenship claims over his … |