vexatious-litigation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A508 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Meghan Anderson, Police Lieutenant, Broward County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Application court-review eleventh-circuit judicial-screening petition pro-se vexatious-litigation Whether a federal court can review a pro se litigant's repeated filings and potential vexatious litigation status
24A367 Angela W. DeBose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts court-management judicial-discretion prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigation Whether a federal district court may impose a prefiling injunction against a pro se attorney's litigation without violating her constitutional right o…
23A425 Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of vexatious legal actions can constitute an abuse of judicial process warranting sanctions
22-7004 Amit Khanna, et ux. v. Westport Village at Irongate Community Association California 2023-03-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hoa-declaration-bylaws home-owners-association jurisdictional-defect procedural-irregularity standing unauthorized-counsel vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation Whether a case without a plaintiff may proceed against persons mis-alleged to be defendants
21-6365 Anthony A. Patel v. Patricia Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights congress-executive congressional-oversight due-process executive-branch judicial-authority judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation Does a judge have the authority to deem the interests of Congress and the Executive Branch to be vexatious?
19-490 Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. Connecticut 2019-10-15 Denied adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings?
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?