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24-921 Kenneth Sorak v. Theresa Cisneros, former Judge, Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-12b1-dismissal 1. Did the 10th Circuit err in its application of the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine given that the 4th circuit, in Gibson v. Goldston, No. 22-1757 (4th Ci…
24-157 Roy C. Derksen v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction sovereign-citizen 1. Did the Federal District court, and the 7th circuit court of appeals court err in summarily dismissing my lawsuit, without addressing the questions…
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit and Fifth District Court apply all necessary and properly applicable elements to the petitioner's 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim? …
23-7648 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that the 11th Amendment precluded Petitioners' retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA?
23-943 Samuel T. Russell v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-tradition matthew-15-6 state-sovereignty Is it a civil right for citizens to complain against their own state; whereas Amendment 11 does not justify the traditions of the Courts when these tr…
23-790 Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California California 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity (1) Whether the State Supreme Court and State Bar's denial of admission based on age violated Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection, an…
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials This case presents a clear conflict among the circuit courts regarding the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et…
23-6031 Andria Dodwell-Wright v. Nationwide Insurance Company, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-16 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process human-rights-act standing Whether the DC Superior Court and the DC Court of Appeals violated the Human Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act by dismissing Petition…
23-157 Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity 1. Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment, Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th…
23-149 Sabine River Authority, Louisiana v. Perry Bonin, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-court louisiana-civil-law sovereign-immunity state-agency subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Subject matter jurisdiction, a threshold issue, cannot exist in federal court where Louisiana has conditionally waived its sovereign immunity to al…
22-6887 Steve Audette v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights federal-jurisdiction prospective-relief sovereign-immunity standing Sleven Audett, had an active, on tine, nonfuirleres, ptogesseng Janagan, in the U.S djdited the Hoable u Soie Case5:17-CTH2 Distid, Easten Distict of …
22-787 Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer North Carolina 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1) 11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio…
22-5488 Thomas James Dorn v. Verna Carpenter, Judge, District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process human-trafficking judicial-misconduct jury-trial protection-orders restraining-order standing 1. Should an appearance be required for a loss of rights, and should the right to trial by jury be explained to the respondent going forward in the un…
22-152 Thomas Earl Dunn v. Elizabeth Post, Magistrate, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-accountability due-process eleventh-amendment nominal-damages public-trust sovereign-immunity state-actors state-public-trust 1. Shall the lower Courts, District Court followed by the Appellate Court, deliberately stand a Constitutional conflict in law, by judicially shield…
22-5081 Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing a)When USCA does not have jurisdiction to Constitutional challenges, US Supreme Court has (Original) Jurisdiction for the [following] reliefs petition…
22-21 Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver 1. Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts? 2. Even if considered immune by the Eleventh Amendment in an abstract form, did DCA w…
21-1583 Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the Blind, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-procedures-act arbitration-process blind-vendor-rights commercial-contract eleventh-amendment federal-arbitration federal-statute sovereign-immunity vending-services 1. Does a State by necessity waive its sovereign immunity from money damages in federal court when it voluntarily enters into a commercial vending ser…
21-8193 Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d 1. Does a State Judges have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has acte…
21-8049 Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Respondent, a Louisiana state agent, procured the post-legal-process seizures of petitioner and his property (seaman's wages and tax refunds) through …
21-1443 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services Sixth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act 1. The Eleventh Amendment requires the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, to be acting on the author…
21-1328 Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 due-process free-exercise mootness standing Whether a statute requires strict scrutiny for facial and as-applied claims where officials invoke it as legal authority to issue mandates which depri…
21-1232 Paul C. Nordberg v. The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System First Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hans-v-louisiana judicial-interpretation legal-precedent sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity 1. Should the clear and unambiguous words of the 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution be the basis for judicial determinations relating to…
21-1175 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2022-02-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-order default-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure human-rights judicial-review state-sovereign-immunity Whether the DC Appeal Court for District of Columbia can ignore inexcusable neglect by the Superior Court of District of Columbia for failure to apply…
21-674 North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights discrimination-waiver eleventh-amendment federal-financial-assistance rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Section 1003 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986 provides that a State "shall not be immune under the Eleventh Amendment . . . from suit in F…
21-435 Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. v. Rebecca L. Pilshaw, Judge, District Court of Kansas, Sedgwick County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Relisted (2) §-1983-suit 11th-amendment 11th-amendment-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-upon-court immunity judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-misconduct judicial-nullity standing I. WHETHER THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT RULED IN CONTRADICTION TO LONG STANDING SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT, TH…
21-317 Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction 1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County…
21-109 California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied 11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury 1. Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective d…
21-5194 Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause Judicial officers acting clearly/substantially beyond their judicial capacities fraudulently legislating/extrapolating law deliberately fraudulently m…
20-1578 William A. Graven v. Arizona Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts due-process qualified-immunity respondeat-superior service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-official-immunity state-officials It is long settled that a Complaint against State Officials is not a Complaint against the State, but that it is in-fact against the Officials, e.g., …
20-1567 Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a County/State judges have authority to preside over a case when He/ She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has…
20-7814 Brandon Bowie v. Hamilton County Juvenile Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity Did the Americans with Disability Act violate the sovereign immunity doctrine of the 11th Amendment when, based on Congress's 14th Amendment enforceme…
20-7508 James W. Campbell v. Tammy Brown, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law Question not identified.
20-7332 Justin Laster v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings unidentified-issue Why would the United States Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit express conduct that has so far departed the accepted and usual course of judicial proce…
20-1217 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights consent-to-suit federal-jurisdiction private-right-of-action social-security-act state-immunity title-iv-d 1. Whether a state can be shielded from suit in federal court via 11th Amendment immunity in actions brought pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Secu…
20-1115 Christopher R. Granton v. Washington State Lottery Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias lottery-dispute property-rights standing state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err when it did not recognize that my case has federal subject matter jurisdiction, Standing, a…
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 1. 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…
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (" Court) said they reviewed "an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo, " di…
20-912 Abigail Ladd, et al. v. Jack Marchbanks Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation knick-v-township-of-scott mandamus property-rights takings takings-clause 1. Whether Ohio's mandamus scheme provides its citizens with a reasonable, certain, and/or adequate procedure or process sufficient to meet the guaran…
20-6455 Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings Unlike employees of local governments and private entities, employees of state entities are excluded from recovering monetary relief when injured by t…
20-5703 James L. Miller v. Virginia A. Phillips, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-courts sovereign-immunity standing Question not identified.
19-1450 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment bill-of-rights case-law civil-rights congressional-authorization constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law-violations federal-rules-of-law founding-fathers state-sovereign-immunity When the lower Courts overlooked the Framers' written intent of the 11th Amendment (which plainly reads that States cannot be sued by "(1) Citizens of…
19-1315 Nevada, et al. v. Donald Walden, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal judicial-procedure removal sovereign-immunity state-courts state-immunity Whether a state remains immune from suit after voluntarily removing a federal claim to federal court when the state is immune from such claims in its …
19-1263 Mark Thompson v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment abstention administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights claim-splitting constitutional-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure ongoing-state-proceedings standing title-vii Did the lower federal courts err in not permitting petitioner's claims for injunctive relief against a state branch if the ongoing state proceedings v…
19-7262 Danilo Mallari v. Tracy Vessigault, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment first-amendment free-speech standing state-immunity 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS STANDING UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO BRING THE CASE BEFORE THE COURT OF JUSTICE? 2. WHETHER THE PETITIONER'…
19-205 City of Flint, Michigan, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied 11th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights conscience-shocking due-process eleventh-amendment environmental-toxin governmental-policy standing state-immunity substantive-due-process 1. Whether the substantive due process right to bodily integrity should be extended to protect the public at large from exposure to an environmental t…
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal In Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (2002), the Court held that when a State voluntarily removes a case from …
18-8580 Sidney Marts, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sanctions standing Whether Florida Supreme Court Judgments Conflicts with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Post-trial Exculpatory Findings due Process violation by …
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity 1. Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's "fundamental rule of judicial restraint" by failing to address whether Doris Freyre ha…
18-8412 Lamar Perryman v. Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment cherokee-nation-v-georgia civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment johnson-v-mcintosh native-american-rights non-intercourse-act sovereign-immunity treaty-law worcester-v-georgia 1. Does Title 25 U. S. C. Section 177 (Non-Intercourse Act) and this Court's decisions in Johnson v. MIntosh, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcestor…
18-7911 Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California California 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause. Whether the California Supreme Court may order payment of a debt that has …
18-7469 David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability? 2. Could a reasonable jurist …
18-835 Mario R. Lozano v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-enforcement-clause 42-usc-1985-conspiracy 7th-amendment-jury-trial civil-rights congress due-process enforcement-clause fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity Suffolk Superior Court and Transcription Services are claiming 11th Amendment Sovereign State Immunity as though it is an absolute bar from a civil ac…
18-571 James Lee Williams v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 1964-supreme-court-decree civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-agencies fraud sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations water-rights yuma-reclamation-project The Statute of Limitations protects against frivolous lawsuits. However, the Statute of Limitations was not established to conceal wrongdoings by fede…
18-243 Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment checks-and-balances civil-rights constitutional-protection constitutional-rights discovery due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-abrogation judicial-proceedings motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 standing supervisory-liability supervisory-responsibility Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does no…
18-42 GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana Third Circuit 2018-07-09 Dismissed Amici (4) 11th-amendment absent-class-member civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-court federal-courts federalism opt-out rule-23 sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether state sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a State to a Rule 23 class settlement as an absent class member plaintiff based on …