Daniel James Caldwell v. Texas for the Protection of Jennifer Zimmerman
DueProcess
1. Whether a lifetime, nationwide restraining order permanently revoking Second Amendment rights without judicial findings of probable cause for a civil or criminal offense, and without exceptions for time, place, or military service, violates constitutional guarantees of due process, and of the right to bear arms.
2. Whether such an order is void ab initio when signed by a retired former judge who, under Texas Constitution Article 16, Section 1, no longer legally held any state or judicial office.
3. Whether mandamus and habeas corpus relief is warranted to vacate an unconstitutional restraint imposed without lawful authority or evidentiary basis.
4. Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by ineffective assistance of appointed counsel in a related proceeding arising from an arrest for possession of, not a firearm, but a bullet.
5. Whether a lifetime designation as a vexatious litigant is void when imposed by another retired former judge who also lacked lawful authority under Texas Constitution Article 16, Section 1, upheld in a related appellate decision.
6. Whether a lifetime prohibition on all contact with one's child, imposed without a showing of unfitness or evidentiary hearing, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments under the principles articulated in M.L.B. v. S.L.J., 519 U.S. 102 (1996).
Whether a lifetime, nationwide restraining order permanently revoking Second Amendment rights without judicial findings of probable cause violates constitutional due process and right to bear arms