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25-978 Adrianna Kondilis, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending Response Waived discovery due-process first-amendment pretext religious-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the First, Second, Third, and Tenth Circuits are correct that courts must permit discovery when public employees allege the government's st…
25A606 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-11-21 Application bad-faith discovery due-process federal-courts inherent-authority sanctions Question not identified.
24-1237 Hans Goerz v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act discovery pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the District Judge may dismiss the complaint on summary judgment without requiring answer from the respondent, without authorizing discover…
24-7009 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting the development of the record deprived Petitioner of a meaningful op…
24-5096 Steven C. Levi v. Anchorage School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights dismissal due-process interrogatories judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Can a case be dismissed without allowing Discovery and Interrogators?
24-30 John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process employment-law federal-rules motion-to-dismiss plausibility plausibility-requirement pleading-standards pleadings 1. When are pleadings sufficient to state a claim under the standard set in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009) and applied in a broader context in…
23-1322 James W. Tindall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-record agency-record discovery judicial-precedent standard-of-review stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-review whistleblower whistleblower-claim 1.) Whether this dispute is even ripe for review by the Supreme Court of the United States ("this Court") when Respondent's agency administrative reco…
23-7623 Estephen Castellon v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment speedy-trial warrant-execution Whether the failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence under the Trombetta and Youngblood standards, coupled with delays in trial proceeding…
23-7485 William Glenn Chunn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-violations continuance continuance-denial discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion I. Whether a defendant's right to assistance of counsel and due process are upheld when he has no right to review discovery or confer with his attorne…
23-7469 Kenneth Del Signore v. Nokia of America Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rules due-process false-claims-act medical-records pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing summary-judgment whistleblower-retaliation 1. Should a Pro Se Plaintiff be granted special considerations by Federal Judges based on their lack of experience with the Federal Rules? In this cas…
23-1178 First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion I. Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment —other than on purely legal grounds — against a party when the court has not allowed that party to…
23-7213 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-rights discovery discovery-request due-process government-misconduct judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Did the Defendant show "good cause" to obtain discovery, after presenting evidence of multiple instances of Government perjury, falsified documents, i…
23-6923 Curtis Gorham v. Gary H. Lavine, et al. Florida 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery due-process expert-witness medical-malpractice standing Can a medical expert not review matters? Can the hospital not give me informal discovery or cooperate in an investigation and the defense is then clai…
23-6777 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights court-transcripts discovery discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence medical-records retroactive-application 1. Does Mr. Sullivan have a Constitutional Right to Court Transcripts and Medical Records dispositive to the State's theory of the case? 2. May this …
23-6772 Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. District Court Colorado 2024-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidentiality defendant-rights discovery due-process federal-litigation jurisdiction service-of-process standing Question not identified.
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process 1. Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient? 2. Is it an ob…
23-718 Darryl Heffner v. Timothy Heffner, et al. Texas 2024-01-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process family-dispute judicial-discretion lis-pendens property-rights standing transcript-rate trust-litigation Appellate Jurisdiction — Refusal to exercise 1. Is expungement tantamount to dismissal? ("What/When is 'final? "] Trial Jurisdiction — Refusal to exe…
23-714 Bobby Len Franklin v. BWD Properties 2, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure concealment discovery discovery-concealment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct land-patent officers-of-court patent-rights standing 1. In 2006 onto 2008, did the named officers of the court in the district court jointly perpetrate fraud on the court to conceal petitioner Franklin's…
23-6313 In Re Jason D. Fisher 2023-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion standing sua-sponte-dismissal DO APPELLATE COURTS AND DISTRICT COURTS HAVE CARTE BLANCHE TO RAISE AND DECIDE IMPORTANT ISSUES IN A CASE WITHOUT EVER SEEKING THE INPUT OF ANY OF THE…
23-6107 Joseph G. Cua v. Roberto A. Arias, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error rule-60-motion time-limitations I WHETHER EXCEPTIONS TO THE AEDPA ONE YEAR TIME LIMITATIONS RENDERED THE DISTRICT COURT'S 2015 DISMISSAL FOR UNTIMELINESS OF CUA'S HABEAS PETITION AND…
23A452 Ben Toma, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete discovery judicial-review legislative-immunity legislative-privilege state-legislators voting-rights Question not identified.
23-472 Dora L. Bonner v. Triple S Management Corporation, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied admissibility-of-evidence affidavit-evidence circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-conflicts civil-procedure discovery discovery-dispute procedural-fairness rico-violations summary-judgment weighing-of-evidence I. Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals error in granting summary judgment to both Triple-S Management Corporation and Triple-S Vida based solely on…
23-5870 George Tolbert v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Seventh Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation consumer-protection discovery due-process federal-regulation foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure property-rights sanctions 1 NATIONSTAR d/b/a MISTER COOPER FAIL TO MAKE DISCLOSURE AND COOPERATE IN DISCOVERY, UNDER RULE 37 AND SANCTIONS 2.NATIONSTAR dba MR. COOPER VIOLATE…
23-426 Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment 1. Whether, in light of the procedural posture of this case, the Court should convert Respondents' Motion for Partial Judgment on the Pleadings to a M…
23-5740 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-10-10 Denied IFP catastrophic-event catastrophic-fire civil-rights death-penalty discovery drug-administration due-process execution execution-protocol inmate-rights procedural-due-process Is an inmate who is to be executed entitled to procedural due process to discover the effects of a catastrophic fire on the drugs to be used in his ex…
23-350 Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment 1. Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constituti…
23-322 Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression 1. Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the "reasonable impression" of bi…
23-5638 Adrian M. Jackson v. Clinton Canady, III, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process factual-error remand sixth-circuit vacatur QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by committing a factual error in which likely impacted the outcome of their Decis…
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware 2023-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner Question not identified.
23-187 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure cloud-based-evidence cloud-computing constitutional-jurisdiction discovery evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence hipaa-privacy-rule judicial-procedure medical-records rule-32 1. Are the cloud-based #NetoOrganon and the dashboard tools attached as exhibits admissible as models per Rule 32 of this Court? = YES 2. Do the resp…
23-5284 John Wesley Lee, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation dna-evidence dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant video-recording 1. Whether an Indigent Pro Se Petitioner Entitled to counsel; where DNA Testing Results and Video Recording exist; but, never given to the trial attor…
22-7867 Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards Question not identified.
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause 1. Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to furnish requested discovery, refusing ev…
22-7661 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-termination criminal-procedure discovery due-process fifth-amendment pro-se-defense sixth-amendment Whether a defendant who continually terminated (FIRED) his/her counsel ab initio of the proceedings and throughout the proceedings can gain access to …
22-7641 Carl Dean Wyatt, Jr. v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony #1. Is it proper for the prosecution to withhold the fact that a deal has been made with the witness for their testimony against a defendant. #2. Why…
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-7364 Matthew Caleb Ross v. Texas Texas 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance texas-court I. PETITIONER QUESTIONS THE LEGALITY OF THE COURT OF OKLAHOMA APPEALS OFFICER'S DISMISSAL OF A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS TO ENJOIN COMMUNITY SUPERVISION N…
22-7281 Steven Ray Rouse v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violations due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-identification THE VELES IS BR-2F4,.50 EVEWLTWES DDENTLEICATION REFORM ACT, WHY IS THERE WAT A ETERUNE OF THE DEFEBANNT? DT HE SCEWE, DARK IW THE BALK OF THE PATHOL …
22-7277 Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction discovery due-process essential-element ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-hearing trial-integrity 0 \aJ lAfcl'V' ^A< waT kiiowt'ftql WT o/vift13 5 of 4W cU (A 21 j£L4/>n 2) uiWt hXvX4 't'n'ai onA / -h> j' Ckimi ; _^'L IrtdicJ/Ht/tf,i/igfec4lV^ CLS…
22-959 Gwendolyn Carswell, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of the Estate of Gary Valdez Lynch, III and Gary Valdez Lynch, III's Heirs at Law v. George A. Camp, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discovery immediate-appeal interlocutory-appeal motion-to-dismiss procedural-law qualified-immunity standing 1. Whether a district court can defer ruling on qualified immunity at the motion-to-dismiss stage without triggering an immediate appeal. 2. Whether …
22-7133 Ryan Stancu v. Southern Methodist University Texas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery discovery-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment 1. Did the lower courts and the Supreme Court of Texas usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's rig…
22-6889 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP and if so attorney-fees civil-discovery civil-rights" Res-Judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine whether the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure discovery hyde-amendment res-judicata rooker-feldman 1. Whether the Hyde Amendment Attorney fees Award is "Civil", and if so, whether the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, civil discovery, Doctrine(s) of …
22-6822 Timothy Alan Dunlap v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-21 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant's ability to independently obtain exculpatory evidence is relevant to a Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claim?
22-6383 James T. Woo v. Colorado Colorado 2022-12-22 Denied IFP case-files civil-rights discovery discovery-access due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction post-conviction-claims pro-se pro-se-defendant protective-order whether The district court improperly misused a projective order to deprive Woo, a pro se defendant of access to terabytes of discovery in his case fi…
22-6351 Shane Webster Upchurch v. Wastequip, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights jurisdiction-issue pro-se pro-se-plaintiff retaliatory-discharge summary-judgment workers-compensation 1. Whether it was error to grant summary judgment to the defendant where the pro se plaintiff was not given any opportunity to engage in discovery. 2…
22-6170 Andrea Peterson v. HVM L.L.C., et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-rules disability-rights discovery due-process equal-protection legal-representation standing Whether a person(s), who lacks the financial resources to hire an attorney, and because of their handicap, disability cannot comply with a court rule(…
22-422 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion brady-violation civil-procedure criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-concealment government-misconduct hearing prosecutorial-misconduct witness-payments When the government intentionally conceals Brady evidence (payments and benefits to witnesses) on the eve of trial - in violation of DOJ policy, ABA S…
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error 1.) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS; TO INCLUDE HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, HIS RIGHT TO DU…
22-364 Ryan Noah Shapiro v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived agency-bad-faith civil-procedure discovery discovery-standard federal-civil-procedure foia foia-request motion-for-summary-judgment rule-56(d) rule-56d standing summary-judgment 1. Must a plaintiff facing a motion for summary judgment provide evidence that the movant has acted in bad faith before obtaining discovery under Rule…
22-5763 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-defense Question not identified.
22-5736 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 I. Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order to compel discovery wh…
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment 1. Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,…
22-264 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2022-09-20 Denied civil-procedure court-discretion deposition-procedure discovery due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant litigation-costs remote-deposition remote-testimony Whether, under California law a court can order an indigent litigant that is granted in forma pauperis to conduct deposition by remote means that is d…
22-249 Chambers Self-Storage Oakdale, LLC v. Washington County, Minnesota Minnesota 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) assessment assessment-methodology constitutional-claim discovery due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-tax unequal-assessment 1. Does the right to Due Process under the U.S. Constitution prohibit a State from depriving real property taxpayers the right to conduct discovery of…
22-194 Jehan Zeb Mir v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied arbitration civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery estoppel insurance-code notice notice-requirement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment waiver 1. Did Ninth Circuit Court err in de-novo review of summary judgment in deciding disputed issues of fact as the district court had done, that 5-years …
22-180 Matthew Stanek, et al. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303 Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-compliance civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-challenges deposition-discrimination discovery due-process equal-access law-office-accessibility sanctions 1. Whether a law office is subject to the non-dis crimination requirements of the Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12181…
22-5436 Oraine D. Brown v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process judicial-discretion new-jersey-court-rule pre-indictment-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motion speedy-trial trial-commencement trial-postponement (1) Can a trial judge postpone a trial on its commencement date at the prosecutor's motion for additional discovery without establishing how the oppos…
22-159 Steven Pascale v. RPI Company California 2022-08-19 Denied civil-procedure concealment constitutional-rights disbarment discovery due-process federal-statutes lawyer-discipline legal-ethics legal-practice oath-of-office professional-misconduct Brayton Law was barred from practicing due to lying, breach of lawyers oath of office, impropriety, and dishonesty: See Appendix K, p. 27 (CV 442750 J…
22-137 BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. District of Columbia 2022-08-11 Denied Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), St. Amant v. Thompson, 390 U.S. 727 (1968), and Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton, …
22-5180 General Akecheta Morningstar v. Kroger Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employer-retaliation employment-discrimination legal-standing publication retaliation standing title-vii Does section 704 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers retaliation by employers against employees. The second question is: Did Morni…
21-1590 Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se The District Court disallowed Austin discovery of an undisclosed witness based on the premise that she would be unable to conduct discovery in a prope…
21-8203 Galina Rytsar v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs Third Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure deportation-consequences discovery due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus impeachment-of-witnesses ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right translation Did Appellant receive ineffective assistance of counsel, in violation of her Sixth Amendment Right, beginning at the Bucks County PA Court of Common P…
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 1. On 4/24/18, 4/25/18 Did Defendants Malone, Sexton, Burchfield violate Scott s clearly establish right to be protected by Assault from other inmate …
21-7492 In Re Jonathan Manwell 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal DOES PETITIONER HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LOCATED AND CONFISCATED EXCULPATORY FORENSIC EVIDENCE, TRANSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS NECESSARY FOR A MEANIN…
21-7487 Dion Fisher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure discovery district-court-order evidentiary-ruling harmless-error motion-to-suppress suppression-hearing trial-witness-list witness-disclosure witness-testimony Whether petitioner is entitled to a new trial based on the district court's order denying his motion to suppress. Whether petitioner is entitled to a…
21-1180 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure discovery due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing 1. Whether a federal court may disbar an attorney without instituting a separate proceeding for such purpose, apprising the attorney of all material f…
21-1035 Joshua Harris v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived brady-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial in-limine tax-court 1. Whether the U.S Tax Court and the Second Circuit conflicts with the United States Constitution, Amendment 6 and the Fourteenth Amendment to a fair …
21-6922 Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. Leann LaRiva, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference discovery district-court due-process eighth-circuit procedural-error standing summary-judgment (1) Did the District Court error in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference cl…
21-6866 Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court Plaintiff was denied access to a jury trial and court discovery violating his seventh amendment rights through the courts inappropriate application of…
21-6414 Charles Wayne Marietta v. Leanne LoBue, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights discovery due-process judicial-discretion medical-evidence medical-treatment summary-judgment Did the District Court of Arizona err in granting Summary Judgment for Defendants without meeting all the elements of Appellant's Original Complaint, …
21-6271 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal I. Do the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corre…
21-6112 Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California California 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. The California criminal street gang laws contained in section 186.22 of the California Penal Code are unconstitutional for being vague, indefinite …
21-6042 Marques Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-hour criminal-procedure discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-preparation (1) Does the District of South Dakota's Standing Order 16-04, which prohibits a defendant from independent review their discovery, deny defendants of …
21-586 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment 1. Is the Seventh Circuit decision, requiring that claims between the parties that occur after the filing of a lawsuit must be filed in a pending laws…
21-549 Nicole Hutcheson, et al. v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery discovery-standard municipal-liability plausibility-pleading qualified-immunity summary-judgment training 1a. This Court has permitted "limited discovery" in cases where the defendant has asserted the affirmative defense of qualified immunity in its answer…
21-524 Schlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York Connecticut 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure discovery due-process foreclosure judicial-sanctions mortgage-law notice property-rights sanctions Questions presented as follows: Granting sanctions without the court's adequate notice of its intention to impose sanctions and the opportunity to be…
21-518 AlixPartners, LLP, et al. v. The Fund for Protection of Investors' Rights in Foreign States Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) 28-usc-1782 arbitration-proceeding commercial-dispute discovery discovery-authorization foreign-tribunal international-tribunal investor-state-arbitration investor-state-dispute section-1782 statutory-interpretation Whether a n ad hoc arbitration to resolve a commercial dispute between two parties is a "foreign or international tribunal" under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) …
21-5914 Tony Joseph Tabor v. Vincent Coleman Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discovery due-process free-speech retaliation standing Whether the Petitioner is supposed to perform discovery when only has consent, not grade special education education? Does the Petitioner's First Ame…
21-5716 Pecola Cousar v. New York-Presbyterian Queens Second Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery district-court-discretion due-process pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court error and/or abused its discretion by not affording the Petitioner leave to amend her complaint and instead granted the Re…
21-5655 Timothy Dean Leners v. Wyoming Wyoming 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal sixth-amendment ONE: Was Defendant's 6th Amend. right to Effective Counsel violated when 1st chair appointed counsel testified at W.R.A.P. 21 hearing for new trial th…
21-362 Reuel Jacques Abale Gnalega v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery due-process federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment va-hospital veterans-affairs (A) Issue 1: Whether Appellate review of a grant of summary judgment was de novo , (Judicial Watch, finely. rflep 'tfofD?f.-, M3 F.3d 1106, 1110't&.C …
21-5191 Tammy H. Hepburn v. Teleperformance Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination evidence failure-to-preserve-evidence hostile-work-environment litigation racial-discrimination spoliation-of-evidence title-vii workplace-retaliation 1. Whether spoliation of evidence or failure to preserve evidence is relevant to a case when the case has been dean for litigation. 2. Whether an emp…
21-5208 Samuel W. Wani v. George Fox University, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion causation discovery discovery-violation expert-testimony fair-trial insurance-policy medical-malpractice medical-records standard-of-care 1) Wani's failure to provide expert testimony regarding the standard of care and causation. I did provide expert testimony regarding the standard of c…
21-5083 Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas Kansas 2021-07-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure i-o f}\A \W V)'\sVxcX GouA oWse \W c^2>oceV%<cXVer^0ack v5 vr\ DA VW Dv^Vrxd CaxA oAxse As &*cjce\\o^ \* Aexv^ ^cc\e^o£xA\s s<zx^K.t& %o( t\ouj aj^>d…
21-5024 Gary E. McKinley v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2021-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence exhibits pleadings prisoner-rights pro-se standing state-court-system L V^Ae^NSA m fe/z. |fflturu^dfc, oa Setfewa-I Cicu*r is &>\T )K/lf&f TbeSt.'bjjo f£ p^Vi d"k<S Siosxl/urcLo f % ^ PeKffesje-r k&s Pfi*> vfdeJL 'fk*t£&…
20-8373 Kevin Herriott v. Associate Warden Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights discovery due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements legal-mail mail-room procedural-law standing state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation 1) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS MISUNDERSTOOD THE GOVERNING RULE OF LAW THAT THE RIGHT TO DISCOVERY WAS PREDICATED UPON?
20-8214 Warren D. Tisdale v. CASA Partners V, L.P. The Park at Winterset, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process interrogatories jury-trial magistrate-referral settlement sixth-amendment I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was violated when the U.S. District Court Judge referred the case to a Magistrate for se…
20-1675 Melvin L. Phillips, Individually and as Trustee for Melvin L. Phillips, Sr., et al. v. Oneida Indian Nation Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived deed-validity discovery federal-courts indian-nation jurisdiction land-jurisdiction land-ownership necessary-party state-involvement state-sovereignty tax-map trust-property Can the federal court exercise jurisdiction over this case when the land is listed on a tax map and the tax rolls in the name of New York State? If N…
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) 1. In the federal habeas context, Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524 (2005), held that a post-judgment motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Pro…
20-8009 David Calhoun v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review public-record public-records state-supreme-court Question not identified.
20-7756 Brandon Lamar Tademy v. Colorado Colorado 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence sanctions spoliation Whether the district court erroneously denied Mr. Tademy's motion to dismiss or other appropriate sanctions for destruction of evidence, in violation …
20-7726 James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7603 In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford 2021-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion The district court Judge A. Marcia Crone, has unreasonably delayed the ruling on my 28 U.S.C. §2255 Motion for over Seventeen (17) months after the la…
20-1211 SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer 1. Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision when rational basis exists for all o…
20-7135 Lamont R. Reed v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery discovery-hearing equitable-tolling habeas-corpus postconviction-petition postconviction-relief state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling Is the AEDPA one year limitations for filing a Federal Petition statute of tolled when a State Court statutorily or equitably delays the filing of a S…
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence, as the Second, Sixth, and D.C. Circuits have…
20-1051 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived appeal-procedure civil-procedure contempt discovery discovery-order foia-request intervenor judicial-review mandamus post-judgment-appeal writ-of-intervention 1. Whether a witness can seek a writ of mandamus and bypass the "disobedience and contempt route to appeal a discovery order" by becoming an interveno…
20-6959 Mason Somers v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance jail-recordings pre-trial-discovery right-to-counsel trial-counsel 1. Once trial counsel learns facts of a criminal case prior to receiving discovery from the government, provides that discoverable information to his …
20-6665 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy standing trial-record I.) Whett THE Clek Phefoened A Jideceal Kwctow AS AN Offete of Hhe Cout Wew ste ctnged the Couets oDrL QUESTIONS ghesertee BY JUCA FiNCION WTSOUT HeAR…
20-827 United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Relisted (5) cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the court of appeals erred when it rejected the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege based on the court's own assessment of…
20-6663 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York New York 2020-12-18 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-discovery criminal-procedure discovery due-process late-disclosure medical-evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Did the prosecution violate its duties under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) and its progeny by withholding the complainant's medical records unti…
20-6611 John Paul Mullaney v. University of St. Thomas Minnesota 2020-12-11 Denied IFP academic-sanctions censorship civil-rights discovery discovery-rule due-process ferpa fifth-amendment Is the intent of FERPA to protect the privacy of student and faculty as a preliminary subsociety, not use 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(B)(i&ii) in a puniti…
20-6598 Stephen Frederick Baker, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to step through the gateway of equitible tolling? 1. Whether state courts determinations of trial counsels effecti…
20-6506 Andy Buxton v. Iva C. Dougherty, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-02 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure discovery due-process pro-se-litigant standing federal courts should liberally construe a pro se litigant Complaint in need of appointed Counsel during the pandme? Is the constitutional doctrine a…
20-736 Adam Frasch v. Florida Florida 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidenti ary hearing to determi ne if a violation has occur red pursuant to Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S…
20-650 Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH v. RWE Trading Americas Inc. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure corporate-control discovery discovery-compliance document-search evidence-sufficiency judicial-discretion possession-custody-control reasonable-search subpoena subpoena-standard 1. The district court quashed a subpoena after concluding that the subpoena's target conducted a reasonable search and did not have any responsive doc…
20-6304 Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information classified-information-procedures-act criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion national-security right-to-present-defense security-clearances 1. Where the plain text of 18 U.S.C. app. 3 §4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) does not require that any motion be determined ex p…
20-541 James MacDonald v. Louis E. Kempinsky, et al. California 2020-10-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection petition-for-redress l) Once again, the California SLAPP LAW has denied due process, denied equal protection, denied access to the Courts, penalized those petitioning for …
20-6103 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing - Is a prose litigant due a merits determination or adjudication on every claim he presents in his 28usc.f22ssMotion? -Is a defendant to be provided …
20-6078 Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process exhaustion fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miscarriage-of-justice rule-60 PREFACE: Denial of certiorari means Petitioner will die in a Colorado prison for a crime a jury found him not guilty of - Petitioner was forced to tri…
20-5953 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP andrus-v-texas certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance discovery due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Was trial counsel ineffective in his directive to advise McCoy to plead guilty by failing to review the government's discovery in violation of this…
20-5866 Shawn Kristi Dicken v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct I. WAS PETITIONER DENIED DISCOVERY PURSUANT TO BRADY v. MARYLAND 373 U.S. 83 VIOLATING HER V, VI AND XIV CONST. AMENDS.? II. WAS IMPROPER EXPERT OPI…
20-405 City of Miami Gardens, Florida v. Wells Fargo & Co., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Amici (2) alabama-legislative-black-caucus article-three circuit-conflict civil-rights discovery due-process standing sua-sponte summary-judgment Whether, by raising standing sua sponte at oral argument in an appeal concerning a partial summary judgment decision focused solely on the statute of …
20-5804 Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circcit Court of Appeals Compound the error, when petitioner's request For counsel was denied, because …
20-5752 Christopher Aundre Faulkner, aka Christopher A. Faulkner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-obligations due-process fifth-amendment government-diligence government-misconduct pretrial-detention Whether a prolonged length of pretrial detention violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the government has failed to exercise …
20-326 Mitchell J. Stein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the government's knowing use of false testimony in a criminal prosecution so long as the government divulged ev…
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview This case raises the question of whether an attorney can be found to have rendered effective assistance of counsel where he failed to review a signifi…
20-5477 Elvis Henry Idada v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure defendants-rights discovery discovery-restrictions due-process government-limitations government-misconduct judicial-review sixth-amendment Should This Court Address the Sixth Amendment Deprivations Created by the Government's Pervasive Restrictions on Defendants' Access to Discovery?
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
19-8772 Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant, the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surr…
19-8686 Beverley M. Harris v. The Bozzuto Group, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-access discovery due-process federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Whether the Court should resolve the following questions for which the Federal District Court, Newark New Jersey rejected/denied Petitioner's evidence…
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether, and to what extent, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental h…
19-8520 Justin Mohn v. Progressive Insurance Tenth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discovery employment-discrimination pretext-plus pretext-plus-rule prima-facie-case summary-judgment title-vii (1) Whether the District Court and Tenth Circuit erred in holding that a plaintiff establishing a prima facie case and or showing pretext plus proof o…
19-1290 Michael T. Bennett v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) admissions-of-guilt character-design civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages defamation discovery intellectual-property plagiarism poor-man's-copyright standing 1. If the Court finds that the Marvel Character "Falcon " in the 2014 Captain America The Winter Soldier movie looks strikingly similar from the neck…
19-8328 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy civil-procedure discovery due-process forced-medication ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se standing Is it abuse of discretion the First Circuit Court Denied Mandamus because the District Court could respond but never has? Is Mandamus available becau…
19-1214 Marty Friend v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-defendants criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence medical-records privilege privileged-records psychotherapist-patient psychotherapist-privilege sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether, and under what circumstances, criminal defendants' Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights entitle them to obtain witnesses' privileged treatm…
19-1206 Paul Boland, as Heir of the Estate of Dixie L. Boland, et al. v. Chris Boland, et al. Montana 2020-04-10 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process estate-dispute hearing probate probate-law standing 1) Were Petitioners denied due process of the law when their motion in probate court to turn over assets belonging to their father's estate was denied…
19-8217 Blake Jones v. McKee Foods Corporation Eighth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery evidence pleadings summary-judgment May Defendant ignore evidence provided a purpose? Summary of Judgement. IS the word of the Phintiff to be believed?
19-8205 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2020-04-07 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review WHETHER MR. BRUNSON'S RIGHT TO DISCOVER EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE IS STILL ENFORCEABLE (Id. AT 41)? WHETHER THE STATE GOVERNMENT STILL HAS THE OBLIGATION …
19-8143 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. Brevard County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP ad-valorem-tax civil-rights constitutional-challenge discovery discovery-rights due-process procedural-requirements property-rights quiet-title standing tax tax-authority whether appellees has authority without a statute law by Congress, may impose tax for private household good personal effect non-commercial? whether …
19-8095 Deville McCants v. Cheryl Hansen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-rules civil-procedure discovery district-court due-process judicial-interpretation medical-bills standing summary-judgment WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL TO FILE A MOTION TO STAY DISCOVERY AND SIMULTANEOUSLY FILE A MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGM…
19-7992 Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 Alabama 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights Whether a Citizen of the United States, have a right to "Due Process " under the law. Whether the fundamental principle of Fairness and Justice in al…
19-7687 Miguel Palacios Plata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Whether Favorcdle Eurdence KnocnAt The Time Of Trral But Excluded And Jury Rrevented FromSeeingOr Hearing, Can This Evidence Now Be Conesrderede As Ne…
19-1016 Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions 1. Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial, a sanct…
19-1010 Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (6) civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery claw-back discovery discovery-scope document-production federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus mandamus-review proportionality relevance relevance-standard rule-26 scope-of-discovery Whether, contrary to Rule 26(b), this Court's decisions, and the decisions of five circuits, a district court may compel a party that has not engaged …
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was "thorough"? Was an appeal warranted on …
19-7196 Mark D. Zimmerman v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process incarceration judicial-discretion legal-resources pro-se standing state-courts supervisory-power its Supervisory Power over the lower State Court's sanctining of a departure from the aicepted ard usual course of judicial proceedings in regards to …
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant, the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surr…
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 A. Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to R…
19-6905 John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance (1) After a. criminal defendant's plea of guilty, if it is later found that the government did not live up to the requirements - of discovery, is the…
19-6782 Adrienne Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. Virginia 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal appeals civil-procedure court-appeal court-orders discovery document-withholding due-process evidence evidence-disclosure judicial-review workers-compensation I. The Court of Appeals of Virginia (CAVA) request all documents from Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission on my appeal. VAWCC withheld sixty-nin…
19-6551 Neil Timothy Aho v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in not finding that the district court abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his…
19-6544 Bradly M. Cunningham v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-knowledge anti-SLAPP civil-rights civil-rights-violation defamation defamation-statute discovery due-process false-light media-liability state-actor-doctrine statute-of-limitations 1. Can the Court stay of this matter until final resolution of a related and dependant money damages case, Cunningham v. Washington County et al., 9th…
19-6460 Daniel Paul Copple v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standards discovery discovery-limitations dismissal-standards due-process evidence-preservation evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus institutional-mental-health-records judicial-discretion mental-competency pro-se-defendant state-records I. When a defendant claims mental impairments had prevented him from timely filing his habeas petition, under Schrire v. Landrigan, should the distric…
19-6452 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court 1. Should a writ of mandamus compelling the Court to issue a subpoena be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity viola…
19-6425 Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-10-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights 1. What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found hi…
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation For Review of Mandamus For Recusal of the Judge and Public Defender both Maliciousley Prosecuting me because i sent a 200 Page Email to 40 Million Peo…
19-6362 Fernando Nunez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct ARE CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS' REQUIRED TO PLEAD AND PROVE THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AS AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT UNDER BRADY v. MARYLAND, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), AND ITS…
19-6371 Wesley Jefferson v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1505 18-usc-1515 18-usc-1519 civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery documentary-evidence due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity summary-judgment 1. Would a United States Federal Court be in error, if it granted qualified immunity to a Defendant in a case, where video and/or documentary evidence…
19-6325 Dewayne Barnes v. Sentry Management, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest discovery dismissal-order due-process in-forma-pauperis res-judicata speedy-trial standing trial-court titlevll of civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 0.sC, because they do though they meet the nomber ofempbyees Rolegeven give andhad soe hirig ndt 2.Cantwo co…
19-6244 Eugene Williams v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation .WhEthER fectiv ASisA of COUE ws h WhE cOU AppoNd cOUe ft CRMN RACICE to peSUE rNSURAUCE lAW the MIdle of y MEl. whCh cAUSE y AEAl to bE disMissEd "du…
19-461 Eleazar Corral Valenzuela v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response Waived civil-denaturalization civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issues denaturalization discovery due-process equal-protection laches-doctrine procedural-due-process rule-12c standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the equitable doctrine of laches applies in civil denaturalization proceedings? 2. Whether the District Court erred in refusing Petitioner…
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review 1.Why th cse as fidand it tms from201 nt 2017 2. To Keep fming the of cheating the State of Arkansas Cheating Scandle and the the Government for: Col…
19-6004 Lynn Taylor v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion affidavit civil-procedure court-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion standing 1. Did the Northern District. Amarillo Division, abuse it's descretion in not forwardinn the total "discovery' of "unanswered admission, affidavit" to…
19-5980 In Re Sang Hing Wong, Jr. 2019-09-17 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct body-worn-camera case-file civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence-destruction fair-hearing fair-trial prejudice Question not identified.
19-5821 Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Should the verdict be reversed because the plea was not entered into knowingly intelligently and voluntarily? Did the prosecution violate Brady requi…
19-5716 Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing was the life of my Pregnant comfanion & being protected from imminent danger trom burg lary& Abducic with real threat by two YoUne men in their posses…
19-246 Massood Jallali v. Florida Florida 2019-08-26 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense brady-rule brady-violation-claim criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence theory-of-innocence WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT DEPARTED FROM THE ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF LAW IN DISCOVERY RULINGS THAT RESULTED IN A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND DEPRIVATION…
19-5696 Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law ChARkeicharles r.mcloy, inerr for aesenting an vntruth that the petitiuner Adrian Fseis willams, didnt pAR Dui to the petitroner being Denied an impAR…
19-235 Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing 1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti…
19-207 David Grober, et al. v. Mako Products, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery due-process expense-sanctions federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion litigation-compliance reasoned-decision rule-37 sanctions Whether the mandatory expense sanctions of FRCP Rule 37, can be circumvented by a court ignoring, or reducing them, including to zero, absent the l…
19-190 Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees Third Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied benefits-withholding discovery erisa erisa-plan erisa-plan-benefits indebtedness legal-relief lien money-judgment set-off third-circuit 1. After Third Circuit had affirmed an Order in favor of an ERISA plan by recharacterizing it as a monetizing of a lien rather than a personal money j…
19-5482 Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation discovery due-process equal-protection estate-rights fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding pro-se-representation procedural-due-process property-rights standing trial-procedure 1. Can Pro Se Legatees, Heirs, Executors, Estate Representatives, Devisees, successors, in a foreclosure pendency, (a new defendant, in an ongoing lit…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether The Seventh circuit prisoner lawsuit forms for District court create a fraudulent Execution or Information Whether the seventh circuit applic…
19-5393 Joanna M. Eiermann v. Lawrence R. Bowers, et al. First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP 9th-amendment civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process inheritance inheritance-dispute judicial-review ninth-amendment remains standing trust trust-litigation 1. Is my 9th amendment right being violated, by the Federal Appeals court by ignoring the fact that the State Court Justice, Richard G Stearns dismiss…
19-5388 Marquis Travell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure discovery due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct tactical-advantage Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability (COA) because reasonable jurists would disagree whether …
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Question not identified.
19-5256 Anthony J. Livingstone v. United States Armed Forces 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process military-justice military-rules-of-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment special-victims-counsel 1. Was the 6th Amendment right to confront witnesses violated due to a misapplication of MRE 412 by the military judge? 2. Did the prosecutor prejudi…
19-5254 Jose Arroyo v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-19 Denied IFP corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement I. Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of …
19-5225 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-records constitutional-review discovery due-process judicial-review minor-protection pennsylvania-v-ritchie records sexual-abuse social-services social-services-records standing WHETHER PETITIONER WHO WAS CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR, HAS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO IN CAMERA JUDICIAL REVIEW OF CONFIDENTIAL SOCIAL SERVIC…
19-5188 Jermaine Tart v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-access discovery discovery-limitations due-process employment-royalties ninth-circuit procedural-scope royalties standing state-rights statutory-interpretation takings DO INKNATES HAVE 5 AND I4TL AMAEND MENT PRE-DEPRIVATION ROYALTIES? D, SHOULD THE EASTERN DISTRICT U.S. DISTRIOT COURT OF NC ORDER THE DEFENDANTS TO P…
19-5146 Isiah Edward Gilliam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-11 Denied IFP discovery discovery-violation due-process fair-trial habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mistrial prior-convictions prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense WAS MR. GILLIAM DENIED DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR TRIAL WHEN THE PROSECUTION FAILED TO PROVIDE TIMELY DISCOVERY AS REQUIRED? WAS MR. GILLIAM DENIED THE R…
18-9813 Levar Brown v. California California 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy discovery due-process forma-pauperis free-speech indigency legal-correspondence patent petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-9765 Joseph Kinard v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence jurisdiction oath-of-office prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction vagueness Doa Assistant United States Attomey have to be a member of The Barin that city or state to presecute youin United states District Courtand Superior Co…
18-9748 George Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea GIVEN GOVERNMENT DISCOVERY DISCLOSURE PRACTICES RELATING TO ITS USE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS, DOES THE "FAIR AND JUST REASON" STANDARD FOR WITHDRAWA…
18-9560 Anthony Wright v. Kenneth E. Lassiter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure,civil-rights,due-process,free-spee civil-rights discovery due-process evidence standing summary-judgment AV' Lj4 r( 5~4 C', eod. or(a btArc)e,--) 41n -Yp& A CC o 92, 4 e rr y SlA.In C4k. 'is4)6/c-f 3) L&t \6k.d o 4~evx2 44\,-e, PLA c) e-, q - L-…
18-1457 Joseph Allen May v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7431 civil-rights discovery discovery-denial-authority discovery-rights due-process federal-courts irs irs-disclosure perpetrator-liability standing tax-law taxpayer-information title-26 Under Title 26 § 7431, under what authority do the Federal Courts deny Discovery, when the IRS and IRS officers have all of the documents and the Unit…
18-9390 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2019-05-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery civil-rights court-jurisdiction court-order discovery divorce divorce-proceedings document-access due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure order-of-separation separation-agreement standing Can NYS Kings County Supreme Court Judge Eric I. Prus block me from seeing a critical document? Can Susan's lawyer, Myla Serlin, block me from seeing …
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning Before this Honorable Court is the question of when it is appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, in light…
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel that failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order necessarily violate procedural due process rights of t…
18-9094 Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment The State expert witness Dr. Emile Laga testified before the grand jury concerning his findings of the autopsy of the murder victim and the state secu…
18-8861 Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale 1. Can a citizen be convicted of the uncharged crime of selling a Controlled Substance to Police Confidential Informant (C. I. #884902), but be charge…
18-8815 Scott Randall Reich v. Mike Slagle, Correctional Administrator, Mountain View Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial standing witness-testimony With The Foueth Ciecart precedANt that thece is cause of Equitasle Tolling of time Restrictions in A FedeRal HabeAs? How cAN, cRine scene photoqeaphs…
18-8751 William Len Rainey v. Texas Texas 2019-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses unconstitutional as appliedinatrialon Sept.21, 201 denying the Petitioner basc Duc rocess protections and affetihis substatialrights? AWe e investiga…
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment As pointed out by District Judge J. Owen Forrester in Sklar v. Clough, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49248 (N.D. Ga. July 6, 2007), "a district court may cons…
18-8674 Dewayne Montgomery v. Garry Lewis Properties Louisiana 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process landlord-tenant precedent slum-landlords standing summary-judgment tenant-rights tenants Whether the court of appeal's decision below, which effectively shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner, a non-moving party at the summary judgmen…
18-8630 Joseph Christopher Birdtail v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal section-2255 Is it error for a district court to deny either discovery proceedings or an evidentiary hearing under the Federal Rules Governing Section 2255 Proceed…
18-8633 James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights data discovery discrimination disparate-impact due-process expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff standing statistical-significance statistics Whether the First Circuit Court erred when it affirmed the District Court's denial of an indigent plaintiffs (Greene's) motion to provide and pay for …
18-1238 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Progressive Credit Union, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consolidation contempt court-compel-discovery court-procedure discovery discovery-rights discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression judicial-bias judicial-misconduct res-judicata share-certificate-dispute standing stock-share-dispute In Case Index number CV-030309-13/QU, Petitioner had submitted letter from President of Cornmunicar Inc. Pasquale Freni, to David Kosher, General coun…
18-8481 Ricky Thompson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules due-process government-disclosure government-investigation materiality sealed-affidavit sealed-records At trial, the petitioner sought to prove the existence of two separate conspiracies. One in Ohio and the other in Tennessee. During discovery, the pet…
18-1187 Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment 1. Whether Summary Judgment Was Proper Where the Respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. Moved To Dismiss Before Filing An Answer, No There Were …
18-1200 Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment This case involves the granting of summary judgment as a matter of Florida law by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida …
18-8332 Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2019-03-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th…
18-1155 James Michael Murphy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion defamation discovery due-process first-amendment government-liability judicial-estoppel litigation-strategy res-judicata Is a second defamation lawsuit precluded by res judicata after dismissal of the first lawsuit, where key information about additional, later, widespre…
18-8143 Stephen Talbert v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process fraud fraudulent-misrepresentation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial voluntariness Can a defendant voluntarily and intelligently enter a plea where counsel fraudulently misrepresents a key fact discoverable during pretrial investigat…
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Whether the 3rd Circuit Appeals Court erred in upholding the decision of Federal District Court to dismiss Petitioner One employment discrimination La…
18-7972 Victor D. Vickers, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2019-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP alibi alibi-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-sanctions discovery discovery-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment taylor-v-illinois willful-violation Whether the exclusion of alibi evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence, as a sanction for an uncalculated discovery violation, is permitted …
18-7812 Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane The question in the case is whether, the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B that clarified discovery rule 3:13-3, holding that the pr…
18-1020 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Communicar, Inc., et al. New York 2019-02-06 Denied case-consolidation civil-procedure Conflict-of-interest consolidation Discovery due-process Examination-before-trial judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-review pro-se-litigation standing subpoena Subpoena-Duces-Tecum Three cases bearing individual case index numbers, CV-092419-1IJQU, CV-027168-12/QU, CV-032361-12/QU, court fees paid, different filing dates, grandfa…
18-7599 Jesus E. Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-witness discovery discovery-order due-process exclusion non-disclosure sixth-amendment tactical-advantage willful-nondisclosure Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment precludes exclusion of an undisclosed defense witness to enforce a discovery order if the…
18-966 Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (52)Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-decision agency-decision-making census discovery executive-branch standing 1. Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census …
18-7527 David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-23 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states 1. Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether …
18-7458 Samuel Lewis Taylor v. Michael Miller, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment access-to-court access-to-courts cell-search civil-rights discovery due-process prison-conditions property-rights retaliation Whether or not 1983 civil rights discovery material confiscated from petitioner's cell during cell search and disposed of denied access to the court? …
18-7400 Damion Sleugh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility Does the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications end once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at trial?…
18-7395 Wilfred H. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence 1. Under Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does the materiality standard require that the suppressed evidence directly go to proving any count …
18-7319 Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards Whether the court of appeals' decision, purporting to follow the principles elucidated by this Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 129 S. Ct. 19…
18-861 WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation Federal Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar 35 U.S.C. §315(b) bars the Patent Office from instituting inter partes review proceedings to challenge a patent's validity "if the petition requesting…
18-7188 Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation Ten years after Ian Davis was convicted of aggravated murder and felonious assault, the only alleged eyewitness to the crime admitted, in an unsolicit…
18-7073 Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves…
18-771 Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions 1. Whether review is warranted because the Court of Appeals affirmed a sanction of $61,605.25 in attorney's fees against a pro se Plaintiff for an all…
18-7069 John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct 1. DID THE COMMONWEALTH COMMIT PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT WHEN IT INTENTIONALLY WITHELD VARIOUS FORMS OF MATERIAL EVIDENCE IN VIOLATION OF THE 14TH AMEN…
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution? Whether the Federal Cou…
18-655 Craig J. Spitzer v. Trisha A. Aljoe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion attorney-misconduct barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery-sanctions-public-entity- discovery discovery-sanctions discretionary-review frcp-26 public-entity sanctions section-1983 state-court-receiver Does a district court have a duty under FRCP 26(g)(3) to sanction public entities and their attorneys for improper withholding of documents requested …
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power (1) Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege…
18-557 Department of Commerce, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-decisionmaker agency-officials discovery executive-branch executive-discretion judicial-review mandamus mental-processes standing Whether, in an action seeking to set aside agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 701 et seq., a district court may order disc…
18-6442 Phillip T. Merritt v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discovery due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ sanctions standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Question not identified.
18-541 Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal The questions presented are ripe for the Court's guidance on at least four unresolved or underdeveloped aspects of civil litigation, namely conflict i…
18-6108 Sontay T. Smotherman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process election-integrity jury-selection records-inspection standing voting-rights Whether an unqualified defendant has right to inspect jury selection records in order to aid in the preparation of a constitutional claim?
18-6094 Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa Under Brady v. Maryland, is the prosecution and the DEA required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA …
18-6015 Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel Were Acker dents Sixth Ameadment rights tt preloted when DD frial counsel Farled to utilize an expert ness trial counsel farted te present delense He…
18-5963 Steve Kassab v. S. Skinner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process excessive-force law-enforcement-misconduct new-trial qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment trial-procedure WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S DISMISSAL OF ALL BUT 2 DEFENDANTS CAUSED PREJUDICE TO PETITIONER? WHETHER THE JURY'S VERDICT IS CONTRARY TO THE CLEAR WE…
18-5981 Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights New York 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii Should the Supreme Court have transferred the Article 78 to the Appellate Division without a hearing? Should the lower court have denied full discove…
18-5944 Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc I. Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18 U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing…
18-259 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction 1. Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense when it became implicated during Discovery…
18-5842 Ricky B. Chhea v. Theresa DelBalso, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no substantive text was provided in your mess I cannot generate a meaningful question presented please provide the full text of the petition. aedpa civil-rights discovery due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus notes-of-testimony right-to-appeal standing statute-of-limitations HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL WITHIN THE SCOPE OF AEDPA ONE (1) YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS?
18-5824 James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1.THE RIGHT TO A FAIRTRIAL , " PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION" THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY " FOUTH AMENDMENT" THE TRAFFIC STOP. ENTAPMENT.
18-5790 Uiki Teaupa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution entitle A Pro Se Defendant the right to have (1) discovery conducted on his claims of gove…
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…
18-5733 Steven Pinder v. Alva Green McDowell, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process medical-records patient-privacy patient-privilege privilege standing Is the APPELLATE COURT ORDER AFFIRMING THE LOWER COURTS DISMISSAL OF PETITIONERS COMPLAINT CONTRARY TO AND AN UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF CLEARLY ESTA…
18-5729 Juan Diaz, Jr. v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process sanctions standing subpoenas Question not identified.
18-5664 Chan Cheeseboro v. Little Richie Bus Service, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accident-report civil-procedure deposition discovery district-court due-process evidence false-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing witness witness-testimony 1. Why the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York would allow the law firm of Lewis Bris Bois Bisgaard and Smith LLP. allow…
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance (1) Whether, as the Sixth Circuit held, Rule 45(d)(2)(B)(ii) entitles a non-party to recover all "significant fees" it incurs (including attorney fees…
18-5596 George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure 1. Was the federal Court required by Federal law to accept as true any of Petitioners factual allegations that were made and supported in federal cour…
18-5513 My Van Tran v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial interpreter jury language-access manifest-weight-of-evidence other-acts-evidence Did the trial court err in failing to sanction the state for failing to timely provide Appellant with discovery essential to Appellant's case? Did th…
18-5456 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou…
18-131 Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen…
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability when Evidence Exsists Clearly Ineffective For Failure To Exculpatory Evidence and /oDisclose Appellant Evid…
18-5252 Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence 1. When, if ever, can a petitioner be denied the discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of counsel for respondent's spoliation of potentially …
18-5 Dennis Riley v. Ohio Washington 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-discovery discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence internal-investigations investigative-officer-misconduct plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the court of appeals erroneously ruled that a defendant is not entitled to impeachment or exculpatory evidence if he pleads guilty at any s…