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25-6763 Frederick Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company California 2026-02-10 Pending IFP appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-taking property-rights vexatious-litigant 1. Whether a state appellate court effects a deprivation of property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it dis…
25A857 John Paul Gomez v. David Ryan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application civil-rights dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se section-1983 vexatious-litigant Question not identified.
25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant 1. Are States'! Vexatious-Litigant Law ("States' VL Law'), and specifically, California's VexatiousLitigant Law ("CA VL Law', Cal. Code Civ. Proc.? §§…
25-5559 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2025-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law vexatious-litigant Whether the lower court violated Article VI Clause 2 of the Supremacy Clause in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws, and whether the court's acti…
24-6711 Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. Kansas 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant Whether a lower court's vexatious litigant order violates due process rights and is immediately appealable
24-873 Angela W. DeBose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response Waived jury-trial preliminary-injunction rule-12b6 rule-65 temporary-restraining-order vexatious-litigant Whether the rules of Rule 65 for preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders require a hearing and whether the preservation of an adverse …
24A501 Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing-doctrine vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted standing doctrine and due process requirements in post-enforcement constitutional challenges to state…
24-467 Christopher Hadsell v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-25 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-challenge due-process fundamental-rights state-interest vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Law is unconstitutional on facial and as-applied grounds due to lack of narrow tailoring and compelling state …
24A366 Angela Dubose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete discovery-stay due-process injunction judicial-procedure preliminary-hearing vexatious-litigant Whether a district court can indefinitely stay discovery without a hearing and without providing an opportunity for the plaintiff to gather necessary …
24A342 Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck California 2024-10-10 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses prohibit a state court from designating a pro se litigant as vexatious wit…
24A169 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. California 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete civil-procedure court-access judicial-restriction legal-filing pro-se vexatious-litigant Whether a state court can designate a pro se litigant as a vexatious litigant and restrict their ability to file future legal actions
24A168 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. California 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete court-access judicial-review pro-se procedural-rights vexatious-litigant writ-of-mandate Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's petition for writ of mandate constitutes an impermissible restriction on access to judicial revi…
24A152 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-access judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process vexatious-litigant Whether a state court can summarily deny a pro se litigant's application for relief without providing substantive reasoning when the litigant has been…
24-140 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute unconstitutionally violates due process and separation of powers by restricting pro se litigants' ac…
24A8 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-circuit judicial-discretion patent-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether the Federal Circuit's use of the term 'vexatious litigant' violates due process by failing to provide fair notice and constituting an unconsti…
23-1251 Paula Bourne, et vir v. Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, LLC Arizona 2024-05-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias medical-malpractice standing vexatious-litigant Did the Arizona Court of Appeals errantly affirm and allow Arizona Superior Court to designate Bourne's vexatious litigants and dismiss their case?
23A881 Linda Baldwin v. Robert Pitman, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-challenge in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether a federal district court judge's adverse rulings in prior cases constitute a cognizable constitutional violation or impermissible judicial bia…
23-6362 Gregory Steshenko v. Foothill-De Anza Community College District, et al. California 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP backpropagation-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-access due-process finality interlocutory-appeals standing vexatious-litigant Whether the interlocutory decisions of the federal courts especially, those appealed under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 ever become the final determinations?
23-313 Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida, Board of Trustees, et al. Florida 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process ex-post-facto injunction-order small-claims standing standing-to-appeal statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant whether-an-injunction-order-under-florida-vexatious-litigant-law-requires-reversal
22-6875 Yvonne Jiang v. Helen Xu, et al. California 2023-02-28 Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-conspiracy judicial-misconduct vexatious-litigant Whether the California Constitution and its Rules of Court confer too much power to the Chief Justice, allowing for abuse of power and conspiracy agai…
22-6701 In Re Astarte Davis 2023-02-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion accountability civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct public-importance vexatious-litigant Whether the Respondents' decisions in Astarte's case is non-judicial conduct under color of law and constitution, failed in their judicial ethics, and…
22-6373 Alicja Z. Herriott v. Paul Barrett Herriott California 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-redress petition-clause right-to-petition vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statutory Law violates the due process rights of pro se litigants by denying them access to the courts
22-5932 Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased Arizona 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights?
22-322 Zia Shaikh v. Madeline F. Einbinder, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights de-novo-review due-process first-amendment judicial-immunity section-1915 standing vexatious-litigant Did the Third Circuit err in not doing a De Nova Review
22-5773 Roland Ma v. Gallery Belltown Condo Association Washington 2022-10-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-order due-process judicial-procedure notice-and-opportunity-to-object notice-requirement standing sua-sponte vexatious-litigant Whether the state courts erred in entering a sua sponte vexatious litigant order without notice and an opportunity to object
22-276 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, et al. Utah 2022-09-23 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure contempt due-process jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-83 safe-harbor vexatious-litigant Whether application of the contempt analysis associated with Utah R. Civ. P. 11 sanctions to review a Utah R. Civ. P. 83 Vexatious Litigant order is f…
22-5501 In Re Eric Drake 2022-09-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation sanctions state-courts vexatious-litigant Whether federal courts can issue prefiling injunctions without notice and a hearing
22-5482 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-court due-process in-forma-pauperis non-article-iii-judge removal-court removal-jurisdiction removal-time-limit rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-appeals thirty-day-window vexatious-litigant Question not identified
22-5425 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-removal federal-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation removal sanction-fees sanctions vexatious-litigant Should-removal-from-state-court-to-federal-court-be-allowed-only-after-state-court-hearing
22-5254 William Paul Burch v. Mark X. Mullen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii bankruptcy-judge constitutional-violation federal-rules in-forma-pauperis sanction-fees unconstitutional-order vexatious-litigant Whether a non-Article III bankruptcy judge can write and enforce their own law on vexatious litigants that violates the constitution
22-5008 Anthony A. Patel v. Sonya Bhatia California 2022-06-30 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-authority due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion martial-law settlement settlement-agreement sua-sponte-sanctions vexatious-litigant Whether courts can impose sua sponte punishments against litigants in cases already settled
21-1493 James Joseph Knochel v. Amy Fackrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud-on-court habeas-corpus next-friend standing vexatious vexatious-litigant whitmore-standard Does Whitmore v. Arkansas require an evidentiary hearing before dismissing a next friend's petition for writ of habeas corpus?
21-7947 Cedric Greene v. Harbor Police, et al. California 2022-05-24 Denied IFP amendment-interpretation case-records civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity legal-standards punitive-damages rights-protection standing vexatious-litigant Whether the petitioner was wrongfully identified as a vexatious litigant in the Court of Appeals case
21-7902 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley v. California Ninth Circuit 2022-05-18 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-bar standing vexatious-litigant writ-denial Can a vexatious-litigant-order be used to deny a writ-of-habeas-corpus?
21-939 Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. Texas 2021-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr…
21-904 Charles G. Kinney v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution ministerial-act rico rico-elements vexatious-litigant whistle-blower Whether judges intentionally abused a 'ministerial' act to conceal or cover-up that other judges had intentionally abused an 'administrative' act to e…
21-881 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2021-12-14 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest court-jurisdiction due-process filing judicial-bias procedural-irregularity vexatious-litigant Question not identified
21-668 Charles G. Kinney v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process civil-procedure due-process ftca ftca-exception judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution pre-filing-order vexatious-litigant whistle-blower-rights Can the 'law enforcement proviso' exception to the FTCA's exclusion of intentional torts by law enforcement officers (acting within the scope of their…
21-5864 Deloris Phillips v. Columbia Luxar Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights court-system due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sanctions vexatious-litigant Whether it is unconstitutional to label a litigant as vexatious without due process
21-5300 In Re Richard Charles Lussy 2021-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process estate-litigation extrinsic-fraud fraud mandamus mandamus-petition ministerial-duty oath-of-office probate-dispute vexatious-litigant Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to ministerially order the setting aside of …
21-5134 Wayne R. Reiner v. Cox Communications California, LLC California 2021-07-19 Denied IFP case-dismissal case-review ccp-391 civil-procedure court-sanctions due-process frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Orange County Superior Court erred in determining that Reiner was a vexatious plaintiff under CCP 391 without reviewing the underlying mer…
21-55 Genet McCann v. Ward E. Taleff, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-integrity due-process fraud judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-standards ninth-circuit rule-11 rule-of-law standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit's departure from the settled course of antecedent principles warrants this Court's supervisory power to reverse and preserve…
20-1435 Glenn Galvan v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Nevada 2021-04-14 Denied civil-procedure compulsory-counterclaim constitutional-rights court-discretion deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-assignment procedural-due-process standing vexatious-litigant Whether Nevada courts abused discretion and made errors in fact and law
20-1102 Michael James Hanna v. Little League Baseball, Inc. California 2021-02-10 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether California's vexatious-litigant-statute unconstitutionally-deprives-a-litigant-of-due-process-and-access-to-the-courts
20-7051 Tomas Zavalidroga v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech iccpr pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) pro…
20-1037 Wanda Bowling v. John Roach Fifth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-immunity judicial-precedent legal-remedy prefiling-injunction standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit's panel's opinion is in direct conflict with its own previous decisions, other U.S. Court of Appeals, and with the U.S. Supr…
19-7990 Gabriel L. Roman v. Sarah H. Kim, et al. California 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-access standing vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute is Unconstitutional
19-7921 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. Superior Court of California, Monterey County Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-bias recusal vexatious-litigant void-judgment Is it contrary to clearly established laws for an attorney to knowingly use court cases that were never filed or commenced, or maintained to use as ex…
19-7829 Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws violate the 1st, 8th and 14th Amendments
19-7814 Alicia Herriott v. Paul Herriott California 2020-03-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-court appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights common-law-protection due-process privileges-and-immunities recall-remittitur standing statutory-law vexatious-litigant Whether the dismissal of the appeal violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-7766 Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. California 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo…
19-1047 Michael Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Damon Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2020-02-24 Denied and whether California's vexatious litigant statu appellate-opinions bill-of-rights civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process first-amendment full-faith-and-credit standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes void-court-opinions void-grant-deed Whether the court erred in failing to declare the grant deed void as a result of the void court opinions, which is necessary for the proper dispositio…
19-7425 Wylmina Louemna Hettinga v. Arcadia Management Services Co. California 2020-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection insurmountable-security legal-remedy security-deposit standing takings vexatious-litigant Is the imposition of insurmountable security on a California Vexatious Litigant a violation of the Equal Protection or Due Process rights?
19-713 Paul E. Nunu v. Nancy Nunu Risk, et al. Texas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abridged Petitioner's First-Amendment-right-to-pe as applied access-to-courts citizens-united-v-fec contempt court-access first-amendment petition-clause prior-restraint pro-se vexatious-litigant Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Texas…
19-6736 Ralph Colombo v. Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, et al. California 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process legal-enforcement statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness Whether California's vexatious litigant statute utilizes the categorical approach and should be declared void for vagueness
19-6596 Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena California 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-sanction civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process passport passport-suspension standing state-court-jurisdiction state-courts suspension vexatious-litigant Can the state courts levy Petitioner's joint bank accounts, freeze her safety-deposit box, suspend her California clear teaching credential, and suspe…
19-6574 Marco Gonzalez v. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. California 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure res-judicata standing vexatious-litigant Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based on…
19-542 Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California California 2019-10-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged to have occurred, eve…
19-469 John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California California 2019-10-10 Denied arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo…
19-443 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant Whether the use of vexatious litigant laws to punish an individual and preclude access to the courts, resulting in excessive fines and cruel and unusu…
19-5584 Christopher Isaac Simmons v. Grissom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-waiver due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-rights standing vexatious-litigant Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly revoke Appellant's In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g) where a 'high risk' prisoner clearly mad…
18-1472 In Re Christopher Hadsell 2019-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt…
18-8966 Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant Whether the denial of a pro se litigant's right to access the courts through vexatious litigant laws and rulings violates the petitioner's constitutio…
18-8554 Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena California 2019-03-26 Denied IFP child-support civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction legal-standing parental-rights standing vexatious-litigant Can Petitioner be brought into a state superior court to be ordered to pay child support for a minor she had no legal rights to and no visitation righ…
18-1184 Charles Kinney v. Michele R. Clark California 2019-03-13 Denied 11-usc-524 bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-violation chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights discharge-of-debt discharged-debt due-process judicial-misconduct personal-liability unconstitutional-vagueness vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-law Whether state court judges and justices are ignoring bankruptcy law that voids any order implying a discharged Chapter 7 'no asset' debtor still has p…
18-8270 Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena California 2019-03-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest minor-child monetary-judgment parental-visitation standing vexatious-litigant Does a vexatious litigant have a reasonable opportunity to know the claims of the opposing party, who the opposing party is, and to rectify a monetary…
18-1138 Charles Kinney v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-03-04 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-discretion retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Unconstitutional vagueness of California vexatious litigant law, violation of civil and constitutional rights, bankruptcy law violations, due process …
18-8105 Alicja Herriott v. Paul Herriott California 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-overbreadth discrimination due-process first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition overbreadth petition-rights privileges-immunities standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statute Is the statutory law prohibiting the arbitrary selected litigants petition to court discriminatory under Be & K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 51…
18-1096 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Is California's vexatious litigant law unconstitutionally vague?
18-906 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant Whether the vexatious litigant laws are being used to punish and compel the silence of a property owner in violation of their constitutional rights
18-907 Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion property-rights separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant Whether vexatious-litigant laws are being used to punish an attorney who was not a party, pro se plaintiff who ultimately prevailed, defendant, or lis…
18-908 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower Will this Court stop these ongoing violations of both state and federal law?
18-7369 Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. California 2019-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process judicial-petition judicial-review procedural-safeguards property-rights standing vexatious-litigant Does due process require the State to provide meaningful procedural safeguards when responding to judicial petitions?
18-6813 Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California California 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process final-determination judicial-review legal-argument relitigation standing vexatious-litigant Was petitioner deprived of due process of law when the appellate court based its decision on an argument that had never been raised in the trial court…
18-517 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant issues-being-raised
18-516 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant Whether the 3-judge panel abused its discretion in dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, which allegedly covered up acts by Justice Gutierrez and …
18-510 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-law free-speech hobbs-act judicial-discretion professional-speech state-court-proceedings vexatious-litigant Whether the dismissal of multiple appeals was an abuse of discretion to cover up violations of federal law and civil rights
18-509 Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived anti-trust civil-rights civil-rights-violations color-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech standing state-bar-regulation vexatious-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing multiple appeals by the petitioner and using 'vexatious litigant' and 'puppet' labels to…
18-504 Charles G. Kinney v. Roger W. Boren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment Hobbs-Act Janus judicial-misconduct NIFLA professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant Issue being raised
18-497 Jean Coulter v. Cathy Bissoon, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal rule-of-law separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Have the courts' refusal to recuse and non-compliance with criminal/civil statutes, case law and their code of conduct and the rule of law resulted in…
18-424 Judith M. Brown-Williams, et vir v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-warranty court-sanctions due-process excusable-neglect fraud rico standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigation warranty Did the Petitioner prevail in the Song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act violation?
18-279 Frank Konarski, dba FGPJ Apartments and Development, et al. v. City of Tucson, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights commerce-clause competitive-restraint due-process fair-housing-act interstate-commerce municipal-action rental-transactions restraint-of-trade standing takings vexatious-litigant Whether housing rental businesses are part of the federally protected domain of interstate commerce