| 23-721 |
Gayle Killilea v. Richard M. Coan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
avoidance-action bankruptcy-law civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence jury property-transfer rules-of-evidence statutory-interpretation trust |
Whether expert testimony may be excluded under Rules 702 and 704 because the expert offers an opinion on the relevant question of fact |
| 22-7050 |
Dorothy Weigman v. Victoria Wertz, as Trustee |
California |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
accounting civil-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mortgage-backed-securities probate probate-court racketeering securities-investment standing trust trust-administration |
Can there be a judgment for the approval of accounting when there has been no filing of an administration of the trust? |
| 22-861 |
John F. Marchisotto v. Debra E. Canova, et al. |
New Jersey |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate estate-trust judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct legal-procedure trust |
Whether the lower courts violated the petitioner's civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 22-151 |
Lasean Dejong Houston v. Estate of Lasean Dejong Houston, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
|
barbary-treaties civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equitable-claims fiduciary-duty fiduciary-relations indigenous-status standing treaty treaty-rights trust |
Whether petitioners' equitable primary rights are destroyed by denying their status as Moors, Americas' aboriginal Illinoisan nationals and subjects o… |
| 21-1542 |
Mill Bay Members Association, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equitable-estoppel executive-order federal-government general-allotment-act indian-lands land-allotment trust trust-period |
Whether equitable estoppel applies against the federal government as trustee for Indian lands |
| 21-6025 |
Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson |
South Dakota |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law |
Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se |
| 21-5832 |
In Re Leslie Willis |
|
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
beneficiary beneficiary-designation civil-procedure disclosure disclosure-request financial-institution mandamus pnc-bank safe-deposit-records trust trust-instrument writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Court should issue a WRIT OF MANDAMUS to PNC Bank and The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. to disclose the Trust Instrument, Beneficiary… |
| 20-856 |
Gary Pisner v. Robert M. McCarthy |
Maryland |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
|
asset-transfer beneficiary-rights civil-rights contempt court-appointed-trustee due-process ex-parte-contact procedural-due-process standing trust trust-governance trustee |
Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process |
| 20-501 |
M. Christine Shaffer, as Executrix of the Estate of Adelaide Chuckrow v. Geoffrey E. Snyder, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Revenue |
Massachusetts |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process estate-tax income-interest marital-deduction predeceased-spouse trust |
Can a state impose an estate tax on the termination of an income interest in a trust |
| 20-413 |
Jozlyn Thomas v. James Scott Blevins |
California |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment beneficiary-rights civil-procedure constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirements trust trust-administration |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments void a trial court order approving a trust account and distribution between trustee and beneficiary withou… |
| 19-1341 |
Richard A. Van Auken, as Trustee and Beneficiary v. Fletcher R. Catron, et al. |
New Mexico |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-property fraud fraudulent-taking judicial-denial judicial-determination judicial-review litigation-history property-rights trust trust-contract |
Whether the refusal of New Mexico State Courts to provide a final judicial determination of trust contract meaning and effect, a fact central to provi… |
| 19-7935 |
Dennis Andrew Ball v. City of Marion, Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure beneficiary civil-procedure due-process judicial-review quiet-title real-estate standing supreme-court-jurisdiction trust trust-assets writ-of-certiorari |
Appellant's Standing To Protect Inherited Property |
| 19-1024 |
Wayne A. Powe, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Residential Asset Securitization Trust Series 2004-A7 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates 2004-G |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
|
deed-of-trust financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce FIRREA firrea-receivership foreclosure foreclosure-standing indymac-bank mortgage-pass-through note-assignment receivership residential-asset-securitization standing trust trustee trustee-appointment |
Whether Respondent Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Residential Asset Securitization Trust Series 2004-A7 Mortgage Pass-Through Ce… |
| 19-7261 |
Gibron Lopez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator criminal-procedure criminal-relationship criminal-relationship-development evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404(b) hobbs-act inextricably-intertwined-evidence intimate-relationship narcotics-sales relationship rule-404(b) rule-404b sexual-relationship trust trust-relationship |
Where evidence of prior narcotics sales was introduced at trial to establish both a relationship of trust among co-conspirators, as well as how their … |
| 19-5393 |
Joanna M. Eiermann v. Lawrence R. Bowers, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
9th-amendment civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process inheritance inheritance-dispute judicial-review ninth-amendment remains standing trust trust-litigation |
Is my 9th amendment right being violated by the Federal Appeals court by ignoring the fact that the State Court Justice dismissed my complaint with a … |
| 18-1281 |
Hayes B. Milliman v. Timothy L. Randall |
California |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question markham-v-allen probate-exception state-probate-court trust trusts wills |
What is the scope of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction? |
| 18-1067 |
Ambac Assurance Corporation v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Minnesota |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-limits due-process forum-state in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction trust trust-law trustee trustee-presence |
Whether a court may exercise in rem jurisdiction over a trust where the trust's primary assets are located outside the forum state |
| 18-7231 |
Mark J. Avery v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud |
Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru… |
| 18-703 |
University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust |
Whether an agreement to arbitrate 'all claims' that an ERISA plan participant 'may have' against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du… |
| 18-6543 |
John J. Koresko v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
29-usc-1132 appropriate-relief benefit-plans defined-benefit defined-benefit-plan erisa erisa-29-usc-1132 erisa-standing fiduciary-duty monetary-relief plan-surplus secretary-of-labor standing statutory-interpretation surplus-assets trust |
Does the Secretary of Labor have standing to sue for 'losses' to the surplus of an ERISA defined benefit welfare plan without showing concrete harm to… |
| 18-530 |
Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel |
First Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
charitable-trusts diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine establishment-clause evidence federalism free-exercise free-exercise-clause personal-property property property-dispute religious-liberty secular-evidence trust trust-law |
In ordinary trust and property disputes, does the Establishment Clause preclude courts from considering secular evidence that is relevant and admissib… |
| 18-457 |
North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust |
North Carolina |
2018-10-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
beneficiary-residency constitutional-challenge due-process federalism pennoyer-v-neff state-courts state-revenue state-tax-revenue state-taxation trust trust-income trust-taxation |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit states from taxing trusts based on trust beneficiaries' in-state residency? |