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25-5988 Huong Thi Nguyen v. Corporation of Catholic Archbishop, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied IFP attorney-fees claims-management court-procedure judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-dispute supreme-court 6/ Why did Judge Timothy L. Ashcraft, Let Attorney William do the complaint again, while Judge Timothy stated in the trial that, William to appear in …
25-185 Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California California 2025-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code The California judiciary participates in red-light running camera ticket projects because it collects court fees from alleged violators as do the gove…
25-96 Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights This case presents a classic vehicle for this Court to clarify that a judicial decision which changes legal precedent cannot be applied retroactively …
25-88 Delco LLC, dba Delco Products v. Leviathan Group LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied arbitration-award attorney-fees circuit-court-review contract-breach contract-deliverables michigan-law 1. Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") erred by not remanding to the District Court to order Leviathan to pro…
25-16 Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-03 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("DC Circuit") err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the Distri…
24-1294 Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) attorney-fees diversity-jurisdiction federal-rule offer-of-judgment procedural-rule state-law This is a diversity jurisdiction case, where award of attorney's fees was made under the Florida State "offer of judgment" procedure rule, in derogati…
24A1205 Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard Question not identified.
24-1081 Saundra Rhodes v. Jessica Gifford Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees frcp-54d nominal-verdict rimini-street-precedent taxable-costs 1. Did the circuit court err in affirming an award of attorney's fees in excess of $800,000 where the Appellee received only a nominal verdict of one-…
24-870 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p…
24-726 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Dragon Intellectual Property LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived administrative-proceeding attorney-fees district-court-discretion fee-shifting joint-and-several-liability patent-law 1. Whether the Patent Act's fee-shifting statute allows a district court discretion to impose joint and several liability for the fee award on a party…
24-703 Ryan Haygood, et al. v. Camp Morrison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights due-process frivolity section-1983 time-bar 1. Is it proper to deem an otherwise meritorious § 1983 claim "so clearly time-barred" that it is frivolous under § 1988 based solely on an uncertain …
24-692 Covenant Construction Services, LLC, et al. v. Five Rivers Carpenters District Council Health and Welfare Fund, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied american-rule attorney-fees claim-assignment contractual-exception miller-act notice-requirement 1. Does the Miller Act modify the contractual exception to the American Rule governing attorney fees to allow their recovery against a contractor wh…
24-688 Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a cou…
24A610 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete attorney-fees fee-calculation hensley-standard legal-misconduct summary-judgment trademark-dispute Question not identified.
24-561 RSBCO v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees fifth-circuit-review invited-error jury-instructions procedural-violation tax-dispute 1. "Invited Error" Violation. Did the Fifth Circuit err by reversing because of jury instructions that the Government itself drafted? 2. United Domin…
24-448 Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC Virginia 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law 1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a state appellate court refuse to provide full appellat…
24-385 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees canon-of-judicial-conduct fair-housing-act fraud-allegations judicial-sanctions procedural-errors 1. - Whether the CA, erred and violated the Canon 3B (6) of the Code of Conduct of U.S. Judges for not ordering the DC, to investigate the fraud upon …
24-259 Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees class-action common-fund lodestar representative-plaintiffs settlement-funds "Since the decisions in Trustees v. Greenough, 105 U.S. 527 (1882), and Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Pettus, 113 U.S. 116 (1885), this Court has …
24-237 Gabriel N. Schwartz v. Beauvallon Condominium Association, Inc. Colorado 2024-09-03 Denied attorney-fees fair-housing-act homeowners-association mask-mandate medical-privacy reasonable-accommodation 1. For purposes of receiving a reasonable accom modation and/or an exemption, from a homeowners association (HOA) mask mandate, may the HOA require …
24-96 Xanadu Corp., et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied attorney-fees claims-administration class-action due-process judicial-review settlement-distribution unclaimed-property 1. Whether Class Counsel and the claims administrator must turn over undelivered or uncashed checks payable to approved claimants in federal class act…
24A91 John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete attorney-fees copyright-infringement eleventh-circuit prevailing-party rule-68 voluntary-dismissal Question not identified.
24-31 Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Antwon Jones, et al. California 2024-07-12 Denied ability-to-pay attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment excessive-fines professional-conduct proportionality-test Does the court-ordered disgorgement of attorney fees for violation of state rules of professional conduct fall under the "excessive fines" clause of t…
23A1112 Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete attorney-fees class-action-settlement internet-tracking privacy-rights service-awards wiretap-act Question not identified.
23A1044 Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment ex-post-facto excessive-fines professional-conduct Question not identified.
23-1163 David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights class-action common-benefit-fund due-process legal-method lodestar-method reasonable-attorney-fee reasonable-compensation settlement 1. When determining a reasonable attorney's fee in a class action settlement with a common benefit fund, are district courts required to apply the per…
23-1142 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied attorney-fees cease-and-desist compensation doctrine-of-equivalents non-infringement patent-compensation patent-rights tortious-interference This is a petition for "Writ of Certiorari " author ized by 28 U.S.C. §165 1(a) because this Court has ju risdiction over several issues that were det…
23-1086 Megan Marie Teter v. United States Trustee Sixth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-action equal-access-to-justice-act remedial-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether a contested matter initiated by the United States in a bankruptcy case is a "civil action" within the ambit of the Equal Access to Justice Act…
23A867 Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2024-03-28 Presumed Complete attorney-fees eaja equal-access-to-justice-act erisa government-litigation substantial-justification Question not identified.
23-815 Laurie Ann McRay, et al. v. Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath PLLC Texas 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees counterclaims due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics legal-malpractice prosecutorial-fees substitute-counsel summary-judgment trial-procedure When a law firm sues its own clients, demanding an award for both alleged past-due attorney's fees and then attorney's fees for prosecuting the lawsui…
23-6163 Vidala Aaronoff v. Curtis Olson California 2023-12-05 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees civil-harassment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se pro-se-litigant 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires a court to construe a pro se litigant's filings liberally in order to enable the litigant to participate as…
23-574 Traxcell Technologies, LLC v. Sprint Communications Company LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-285 attorney-fees attorneys-fees claim-baselessness exceptional-case final-ruling litigation-conduct magistrate-ruling patent-infringement 1. Where petitioner's patent infringement claims were not finally rejected until the district court judge approved the Magistrate Judge's ruling dispo…
23-487 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure 1. Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants ' contractual dues is discriminatory? 2. Whether Appellant 's exercise of §92…
23A390 Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, to prevail "on the merits" under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as oppo…
23-297 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York Indiana 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata The Indiana courts ' judgments violated Newman 's Constitutional rights to due process in the absence of hearings in the trial court, by impositions o…
23A235 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete 17-usc-505 attorney-fees circuit-split copyright-infringement fee-shifting intellectual-property Question not identified.
23-214 Juannelious Benjamin Murray, Sr. v. Safir Law P.L.C. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-362k1 attorney-fees automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 core-proceedings jurisdiction legal-services property-of-estate segal-v-rochelle Is it sound discretion for a bankruptcy court to disregard nearly sixty years of Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding what comprises property of a ba…
23-132 Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo Pennsylvania 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights debtors-prison due-process equal-protection imprisonment statutory-interpretation Whether imprisoning a citizen for a divorce judgment of attorney fees violated 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) since a citizen cannot be imprisoned for a money ju…
23-57 Julio Yee Cabrera, et al. v. Enrique Lozano, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied appellate-discretion attorney-fees circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning judicial-transparency legal-reasoning procedural-review standing transparency Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals panel has unfettered discretion in every matter (outside of a small number of statutory exceptions) to withhold all in…
23-5104 Annelies Aiking-Taylor v. Oliver Serang Montana 2023-07-13 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-judgment prevailing-party supremacy-clause takings Did the Montana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by disregarding the definition of "prevailing party" as decided by the US Su…
23-10 Miriam Brysk, et al. v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-semitism attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-bias synagogue synagogue-picketing 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a decision by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan …
22-7719 Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. Nebraska 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve…
22-1132 Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides New York 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness 1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York ("Court of Appeals") erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal the decision of…
22-1084 Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing 1. Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned under a district court's inherent authority for asserting standing on behalf of voters for damages aga…
22-901 Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson Utah 2023-03-17 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when it failed to reverse a decision of the Utah Court …
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 …
22-773 Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a "prevailing party" elig…
22-717 Adrian Perkins, Mayor of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana v. Celcog, LLC, dba Strawn's Eat Shop Too, et al. Louisiana 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute judicial-procedure louisiana-constitution louisiana-revised-statutes state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts erroneously granted attorney's fees to Plaintiffs-Respondents pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b), where Plaintiffs' Petition sol…
22-680 Jun Li, et al. v. Colorado Regional Center I, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process erie-doctrine judicial-proceedings standard-of-review supervisory-power This case falls within Sup. Ct. R. 10(a) which allows the Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory power when a court of appeals has departed from th…
22-557 Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP California 2022-12-19 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication Question 1. Does California's legal framework — whereby prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees are adjudicated summarily as claims…
22-517 Jenna Dickenson v. Charles T. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) attorney-fees common-fund equitable-fund johnson-factors judicial-discretion lodestar-method percentage-fee percentage-of-fund perdue-v-kenny 1. Whether district courts may be required to use the inherently subjective and effectively unreviewable Johnson factors to determine common-fund fee …
22-482 Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., et al. v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey 2022-11-21 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-fees causation causation-damages constitutional-rights damages due-process jury-award legal-malpractice 1. Whether the Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated when the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey substitut…
22-390 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-rights attorney-fees attorneys-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-sanction limited-jurisdiction rule-of-law sanctions (1) Can a limited jurisdiction court of California award attorneys' fees in excess of its jurisdictional limit of $10,000.00? (2) Is it justified to …
22-288 TD Bank, N.A. v. Tania Pulliam, et al. California 2022-09-27 Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees civil-procedure consumer-credit contract-law creditor-liability holder-rule recovery-limitation seller-misconduct Whether, and in what circumstances, the Holder Rule's limit on "recovery" by the debtor, 16 C.F.R. § 433.2(a), applies to, and thus caps, an attorney'…
22-36 Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages 1) The Ninth Circuit is in disagreement with the Second and Eight Circuits: Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitut…
22-5041 Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia Talley Dunn Texas 2022-07-06 Denied IFP attorney-fees bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fraud motion-to-dismiss texas-rules-civil-procedure trial-court-judgment void-judgment want-of-prosecution 1) Whether the trial court judgments were the result of fraud, and are thus void; and whether such a judgment violates Due Process. 2) Whether the tr…
21-1462 Cheryl Griffith v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees blum-v-stenson contract-principles fee-shifting fees-and-costs johnson-v-georgia-hwy-exp-inc market-rates prevailing-market-rate prevailing-party settlement-agreement statutory-fee-shifting statutory-interpretation Whether a settlement in a case covered by statutory fee shifting provisions under terms entitling plaintiffs attorneys to reasonable fees and costs as…
21-7518 Jay Alan Myers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-rights due-process prevailing-party standing Question not identified.
21-1277 David Allen O'Neal v. Crawford County, Georgia Georgia 2022-03-23 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure county-employee county-liability personal-jurisdiction third-party-release third-party-releases void-judgment 1. Without personal jurisdiction over the attorney, where the judgment against the County paid attorney is really a judgment against the County, isn't…
21-1256 Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1) american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t…
21-1005 Heat On-The-Fly, LLC, et al. v. Energy Heating, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court-discretion exceptional-case litigation-misconduct patent patent-litigation Must a district court consider litigation misconduct, or lack thereof, in determining whether a case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. § 285?
21-738 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-jurisdiction remand removal standing This Court has recently sought to define when 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)-(d) preclude appeals from remand orders. Carlsbad Tech., Inc. v. HIF Bio, Inc., 556 …
21-666 Parker Waichman, LLP, et al. v. Arnold Levin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Alyeska-Pipeline-Serv.-Co.-v.-Wilderness-Soc'y attorney-fees Boeing-Co.-v.-Van-Gemert Common-benefit-doctrine common-fund-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction Equitable-common-fund-doctrine erie-doctrine Erie-R.-Co.-v.-Tompkins federal-equity-power Hensley-v.-Eckerhart multi-district-litigation The questions concern three subjects : (1) the authority of a court sitting in diversity jurisdiction to allocate contractual attorney fees from indiv…
21-566 Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When its petition was filed, did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty? After the Bank pled in its Motion for…
21-491 William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata 1. Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a "closely interwoven" co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclu…
21-299 Montgomery County, Maryland v. Yasmin Reyazuddin Fourth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-relief legal-standing prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff who obtains no judicial relief is a "prevailing party" entitled to attorney's fees.
21-247 Coalition for Better Government, et al. v. Alliance for Good Government Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees chilling-effect commercial-speech fee-shifting first-amendment lanham-act non-commercial-speech political-speech 1. Should this Court permit the Lanham Act to be extended to non-commercial political speech? 2. Should this Court permit the imposition of a sanctio…
21-229 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York Indiana 2021-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-review takings This case presents a singular question of the outer limits of a citizen's Constitutional due process and other related Constitutional rights in legal …
21-5188 Malik Nasir v. United States Third Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation ninth-circuit standing third-circuit Question not identified.
20-1695 Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees callon-petroleum-v-frontier civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review frcp-60(b) frcp-60b4 jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements rule-41-dismissal rule-54 standard-of-review I.) Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the denial of a FRCP 60(b)(4) (lack of jurisdiction) motion under the "de novo " standard of review…
20-1489 Russell Baldwin v. Suzanne Seida, et al. Oregon 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain lien lien-foreclosure state-court-procedure takings Did the state circuit court effectuate a "taking" for purposes of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when it dismis…
20-1420 Roadie, Inc. v. Baggage Airline Guest Services, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied attorney-fees claim-construction exceptional-case highmark-v-allcare infringement infringement-claim judicial-discretion octane-fitness-v-icon patent-law patent-statute-35-usc-285 Whether District Court judges should be required to consider the weakness of an infringement claim, after ruling in favor of the defendant on invalidi…
20-1422 76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing 1. Should the Supreme Court adopt, as a national standar d, Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports (U.S.) Inc., 631 F.3d 939, 944 (9th Cir. 2011), to balance the n…
20-1363 Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 If this Court determines in Case No. 20-773 that the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the award of attorney fees as sanctions under Rule 11, should …
20-1349 Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h Whether, and to what degree, a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding "reasonable attorney's fees" under Rule 23(h).
20-1213 Marsha W. Mignott, et al. v. Brian Gardiner Georgia 2021-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals legal-procedure non-party non-party-corporation 1. Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred by affirming the trial court's March 30, 2018 Order; which ordered The Mignott Law Group, LLC, a nonpart…
20-1153 Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bad-faith civil-procedure costs-and-fees court-discretion inherent-authority judicial-power legal-costs objective-conduct procedural-standard subjective-bad-faith Whether a court considering a motion for an award of costs and attorney's fees pursuant to the court's inherent authority must require the movant to p…
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California 2021-01-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as …
20-773 Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process Whether—in line with holdings from the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits—a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be gr…
20-749 Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. Texas 2020-12-01 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply (1) the proper standard of review and (2) perform the correct factual and le…
20-718 Mario Nelson Reyes-Romero v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights criminal-procedure eaja equal-access-to-justice-act government-misconduct hyde-amendment standing united-states-position The Hyde Amendment authorizes a district court to award attorney's fees and costs to a prevailing criminal defendant "where the court finds that the p…
20-710 John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings Does Grove have an interest in his property which is protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil rights claim and taking…
20-638 Samuel Gonzales v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees burden-shifting civil-rights discretion employee-benefits erisa 1. Whether and to what extent district courts must consider ERISA's purpose "to protect *** the interests of participants in employee benefit plans an…
20-589 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? Can a state-judge refuse to obey …
20-565 George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Di…
20-5989 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-10-09 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights court-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation pro-se sanctions Petitionee denied her due peocess WAS RioHts, Decause she is A PRo liticant? se fees on Petitionee, when Peritioner did seot bet AN oPPDR tUNiT4 TO Re…
20-442 Kelly Colvard Parsons v. Richard Jearl Parsons Tennessee 2020-10-06 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees divorce-decree marital-property modification property-rights retirement-benefits vested-interest 1. Did the Appellate Court of the State of Tennessee err, as a matter of law, when it concluded that Wife did not obtain a vested, nonmodifiable prope…
20-409 Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation Whether, under 11 U.S.C. 105(a), debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation.
20-311 Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Appellants 14th Amendment rights, were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees.…
20-5314 Jared Stubblefield v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing Question not identified.
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter to grant jurisdiction for attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review…
19-1244 Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by refusing to consider any legal arguments raised on appeal, inclu…
19-1217 Scottie A. Bagi, et al. v. City of Parma, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied 42-usc-1988 attorney-fees christiansburg-garment civil-rights discretionary-standard due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether the District Court abused its discretion in its application of the standards set forth in Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412 (19…
19-1132 Blackbird Tech LLC, dba Blackbird Technologies v. Health in Motion LLC, dba Inspire Fitness, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-by-case-analysis exceptional-case judicial-determination litigating-position litigation-discretion octane-fitness patent-act patent-law patent-litigation Can a court consider factors unrelated to the instant case in determining whether a particular case is exceptional, i.e., whether those outside factor…
19-980 Ariana M. v. Humana Health Plan of Texas, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees beneficiary-rights civil-rights employee-benefits erisa fee-award health-plan judicial-review legal-success legal-victory standard-of-review The question presented is whether a beneficiary achieves "some success on the merits" for purposes of a fee award under ERISA Section 502(g)(1) when s…
19-7463 Terrance A. Burlison v. David R. Ellspermann, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of Court for Marion County, Florida Florida 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure sec-1988 statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Court of Appeals for the Fifth District abused its discretion in awarding defendant attorney's fees pursuant to sec. 1988.
19-931 Jay Lawrence Friedheim v. Dane Field Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied admiralty-law attorney-fees bankruptcy civil-procedure jones-act maintenance-and-cure maritime-law seaman-contract 1. Whether a seaman's wage contract that includes maintenance and cure entitles the prevailing party to attorney's fees under Alyeska Pipeline Serv. C…
19-7122 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-12-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing takings Question not identified.
19-6900 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees attorneys-fees buckhannon civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-access-to-justice-act government-litigation judicial-determination mootness prevailing-party standing voluntary-change This Court in Buckhannon addressed an award of prevailing party attorneys' fees pursuant to Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 and Americans with Dis…
19-677 Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation 1. Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients? 2. When, if ever, does a plaintiff who wins a preliminary …
19-504 Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough This Court's longstanding precedent holds that representative plaintiffs whose litigation creates a "common fund" benefiting a larger class may recove…
19-480 John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law?
19-6224 Philong Huynh v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-statutes court-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception discretionary-standard due-process government-oversight investigation-power judicial-review legal-interpretation If government oversight function, including the power of investigation, is a way of carrying laws into effect (1 Am J 2d Adm L's 81), then is that pow…
19-5939 Frank R. Montero v. Tulsa Airport Improvements Trust Tenth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights due-process federal-due-process federal-question-jurisdiction standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit-court title-28-usc-1443 writ-of-mandamus 1. When the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, states in a "Writ of Mandamus " that a State District Judge violated "Federal Due Process " did it…
19-5745 Mary Ryan v. Robert J. Connelly, III, et al. Rhode Island 2019-08-30 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction parties self-represented-litigant standing This case presents a clear and intractable conflict regarding three important questions involving the Rhode Island Supreme Court 's determination that…
19-270 Patricia Rodriguez v. LPP Mortgage Ltd., LP Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure client-advocacy credible-arguments due-process legal-ethics rule-11 sanctions zealous-representation Whether rule 11 sanctions against attorney Patricia Rodriguez and her law firm should be reversed, as it conflicted with her duty to represent her cli…
19-244 Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure class-action common-fund common-fund-settlement fee-shifting lodestar lodestar-method securities securities-law 1. Do this Court's decisions defining "a reasonable attorney's fee" in fee-shifting cases also constrain a district court's discretion in awarding "re…
19-201 Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert California 2019-08-16 Denied attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing (1) Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402, removing Respondent from the litigation,…
19-5372 Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. Florida 2019-07-29 Denied IFP ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings "REGISTRY." LUST MAINTAINED BY THE CLERK OF THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT UNCONSTTUTONAL AMERICANS WITH DISABLLITIES AET? 2) DiD DESIGNATIRON UNDER FLORI…
19-73 Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically (i.e., absent express textual differences) contravene this C…
19-34 Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis New Hampshire 2019-07-03 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness 1. Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact …
19-2 Jackie Hosang Lawson v. FMR LLC, dba Fidelity Investments, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness-testimony federal-securities-law federal-securities-laws fraud fraud-allegations jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standards sarbanes-oxley-act securities Is the jury verdict just and proper on the two deciding questions whether "Fidelity's conduct could constitute violation of Federal law relating to fr…
18A1274 Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete attorney-fees civil-procedure fee-shifting prevailing-party statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal Question not identified.
18A1269 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete attorney-fees buckhannon-doctrine equal-access-to-justice federal-circuit judicial-review tactical-mooting Question not identified.
18A1209 Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete attorney-fees fee-shifting foia litigation-costs statutory-interpretation substantial-prevailing Question not identified.
18-1380 Thomas P. Gannon v. Riverwatch Condominium Owners' Assn., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1927 appeal-procedure appellate-procedure attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal due-process judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-technicality standing 1. Should an attorney be punished with the severe penalty of the dismissal of his appeal where his notice of appeal reports that the appeal is from a …
18-1371 Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent 1. Should Morley v. CIA, 894 F.3d 389 (D.C. Cir. 2018) ("Morley XI") be reversed because it is in direct conflict with Dept. of Justice v. Tax Analyst…
18-1347 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation due-process federal-enforcement fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-immunity The removal was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed creditors, a con…
18-1349 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation The motion to re-open was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed credit…
18-1225 Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement 1. Whether a deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for the former client violates said attorney's due process rights …
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-553, …
18-1136 Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing 1. Whether the rules and laws governing how charging liens are imposed and executed in Federal District Courts should be clarified so as to uniformly …
18-1115 Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura I. Are Petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. §1983 barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion and res judicata, despite…
18-1095 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-discharge-injunction bankruptcy-discharge bosse bosse-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights court-judgment creditor-rights discharged-debtor judicial-procedure personal-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine unsecured-creditor It is rare for a federal statute to say it "voids" a court judgment, but that is exactly what 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) does. If that decision determin…
18-1012 Patrick Lafferty, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. California 2019-02-04 Denied attorney-fees california-consumers-legal-remedies-act consumer-legal-remedies-act consumer-protection consumer-protection-act federal-trade-commission holder-rule implied-cause-of-action preemption private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action unfair-or-deceptive-acts 1. Whether the "Holder Rule" as discerned by the California Third District Court of Appeal implies a new private cause of action? 2. Whether the "Hol…
18-922 Abraham M. Fisch v. Texas Texas 2019-01-16 Denied attorney-fees client-rights criminal-defense-attorney criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeiture sixth-amendment standard-of-review (1) What is the appropriate standard of review to be employed when a court orders the forfeiture of attorney's fees to the State? (2) Does a criminal…
18-914 Gerald E. Bove v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees circuit-precedent due-process frivolous frivolous-prosecution hyde-amendment labor-law labor-laws legal-theory standing 1. For the purposes of denying an a claim for attorney's fees from the federal government under the "Hyde Amendment," may a government theory of prose…
18-796 Bruce Alexander v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived accountability attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process equal-protection government-accountability investigation judicial-procedure municipal-governance official-accountability standing Did the Western District Court erred in not allowing ALL parties to respond to the original complaint? Did the Western District Court erred in not al…
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…
18-5943 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham, et al. Oregon 2018-09-12 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence costs-and-fees due-process elder-care guardianship guardianship-petition medical-decision-making mental-health standing trial-court-error Did the trial court err in ruling General Judgment of Dismissal the Guardianship Petition filed by Linh Thi Minh Tran with prejudice? Did the trial c…
18-301 Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (4) attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law.
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…
18-5619 Ralph Raul Contreras v. Hunter Anglea, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees california-rules-of-professional-conduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights professional-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-created-rights Petitioner contends that a criminal defendant is entitlE to counsel at all crucial stages of the proceeding. United states Constitution, Sixth Amendme…
18-90 Colonial School District v. Rena C. Third Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied abuse-of-discretion attorney-fees buckhannon-board-and-care-home buckhannon-rule catalyst-theory disabilities-education frivolous-litigation individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-2004 individuals-with-disabilities-education-improvemen pierce-v-underwood plenary-review settlement-offer Respondent, Rena C., filed a fee petition in district court. Finding that Rena C. "was not justified in ignoring and rejecting" Petitioner, Colonial S…
18-5200 Kerry Kruskal v. Allan Meltzer, et al. New Mexico 2018-07-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collection-fees contract contract-dispute due-process judgment-lien punitive-damages standing takings trust-account Should Kruskal be entitled to a full release for paying off the entire judgment lien on 10/1/2015 On 10/1/2015, when Kruskal entirely paid off the ju…
18-5192 Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services Ohio 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal Question not identified.