28-usc-455

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24-95 Jason Lou Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied 28-usc-2072 28-usc-455 appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct recusal supervisory-powers 1. Should the United States Supreme Court exercise its supervisory powers under 28 U.S.C. § 2072 to impose a requirement of mandatory disqualification…
23-1072 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-02 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation The federal disqualification statute, 28 U.S.C. §455, compels federal judges to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality mig…
23-7032 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure petition-renaming recusal rule-60-b standing 1 ST QUESTION WAS JUDGE STEVEN BOUGH ALLOW TO RENAME MR.GREGORY'S 28 USCS 144 PETITION AS A 28 USCS 455 PETITION? 2ND QUESTION WAS MR.GREGORY DENIED …
22-458 TIG Insurance Company v. ExxonMobil Oil Corporation Second Circuit 2022-11-15 Dismissed 28-usc-455 appellate-review financial-conflict judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal legal-procedure liljeberg-test public-confidence-in-judiciary In Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corporation, 486 U.S. 847 (1988), this Court set forth a three-factor test to determine whether it is appr…
22-5995 Collucci J. Myers v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-455 bias-complaint civil-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process judicial-recusal notice-of-lawsuit pro-se-litigation procedural-standards standing The questions presented here are related to both the issues ruled upon by the district court, and appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and al…
21-1582 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2022-06-23 Denied 28-usc-455 bankruptcy-procedure bias-and-prejudice constitution-questions-and-federal-laws constitutional-taking due-process federal-jurisdiction inferior-officer judicial-bias liteky-v-united-states rule-22(a) Why is the Inferior Officer who was disqualified in June, 2018, for Bias and Prejudice, allowed to be in defiance to the order of the United States Su…
21-1374 Floyd Chodosh, et al. v. John Saunders, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 civil-procedure disqualification due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process rooker-feldman A disqualified state court judge called in from vacation and delayed a temporary restraining order, then "self-requalified" himself back on to the cas…
21-6630 Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-455 appeal appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute guilty-plea judicial-recusal recusal waiver-of-rights Whether an unconditional guilty plea waives a federal criminal defendant's right to appeal a district court's failure to recuse under 28 U.S.C. § 455(…
21-710 Valerie Jackson v. Lupe Valdez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal standing statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may disregard this Court's precedent and the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 144, review and rebut the merits of an affidavit s…
20-8178 Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal 1. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal's criticism regarding the infamous Chicago 7 trial includes that "in comparable situations, the judge likely to…
20-949 Angelica Christina Limcaco v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied 28-usc-455 court-impartiality court-payments extrajudicial-source judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics liljeberg-v-health-services liteky-v-us procedural-standards statutory-interpretation The first question presented is whether the language "might reasonably be questioned" under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) can be judicially restricted to require…
20-777 In Re Darren Heyman 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment This case provides this Court with multiple instances for it to ground the criteria by which presiding judges, with different active relationships wit…
20-6219 Sascha Lynch v. Allen Y. Chao, et al. California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-455 28-usc-455a civil-procedure due-process equitable-estoppel inquiry-notice judicial-bias statute-of-limitations 1) Whether the California Court of Appeal erred by affirming judgment based on the federal district court's inquiry notice in favor of the defendants …
18-8390 Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime Whether, consistent with due process and 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a "vict…
18-8229 Sam Chinn, aka Sam Chinn, III v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-455 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-iii-violation civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-rule-8 habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification magistrate-judge-process plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60b-motion WHETHER THE DENIAL OF A RULE 60(b) MOTION, BY THE DISTRICT COURT, AND THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE COURT OF APPEALS, WAS A ABUS…
18-885 Bennie Kennedy, et al. v. Schneider Electric, fka Square D Company Seventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 case-consolidation civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleadings standing summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether or not this Court should call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power by rejecting the Seventh Circuit's reasoning which affirmed th…
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a…