No. 25-5094

Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al.

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2025-07-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims jurisdiction supremacy-clause trial-court
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1- Whether the state 's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its
federal claims, and whether the trial court 's final judgment to dismiss with
prejudice, all claims against all defendants for lack of jurisdiction, is in violation
of the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause.

2- Whether the trial court 's Order to Grant TWC 's plea to the jurisdiction, without
offering the petitioner an opportunity to (at least hear) the plea or to respond to
it in a Live Hearing, is in violation of the Due Process Clause, and the Right to
be Heard.

3- Whether the Texas Workforce Commission 's clear procedural errors violated
the Due Process Clause, and the Right to be Heard, when the Texas Workforce
Commission (TWC) (reversed the decision) which qualified the petitioner to
receive unemployment benefits, before and without processing the (already filed)
with the Texas Workforce Commission, the employer/ respondent 's (HTS) appeal
from the qualifying decision.

4- Whether the petitioner is entitled, under the Due Process Clause, to move to
disqualify or recuse the impartial, bias and prejudice appeals court 's justice(s),
and whether the petitioner was deprived by the Texas supreme court from the
right to appeal the appealable denied motion.

5- Whether the Texas supreme court's Denials to the direct appeal/the petition
for review, and the motion for rehearing with its federal claims, are in violation
of the Supremacy Clause.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the state's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court's dismissal with prejudice violates the Due Process and Supremacy Clauses

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-08-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-07-31
Waiver of right of respondent Texas Workforce Commission to respond filed.
2025-03-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 13, 2025)

Attorneys

Awad Mustafa
Awad Mustafa — Petitioner
Texas Workforce Commission
William CohenAttorney General of Texas, Respondent