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25-6632 Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray Eighth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending IFP attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action Whether the pla intiff 'is allow to sue his formal attorney under the color of state law, and to where the violation occurred while the defendant acte…
25-5662 Martha Jane Ford v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, for CWABS, Incorporated Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2 Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice attorney-misconduct due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity mediation-agreement 1. Whether the enforcement of a mediation agreement procured through fraud, coercion, and attorney misconduct —despite a prior court order barring for…
24A272 David Whitehead v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied attorney-misconduct contract-dispute copyright-infringement fbi-investigation freedom-of-information-act intellectual-property Question not identified.
24-299 Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering In 2014 California implemented the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, or RULLCA, no longer permitting professional LLCs in California. Dur…
24-5323 Muhidin Salad Omar v. John C. Gardner Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights criminal-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice Question not identified.
24-68 Jian Wang, aka James Wang v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2024-07-22 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights communication-barrier due-process interpreter legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation settlement settlement-dispute sign-language-interpretation Whether $207,500 should be corrected to $207 million in the settlement term plus interest because effective and clear communication between attorneys …
23-7054 Robert N. Young v. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust attorney-misconduct court-sanctions doj-fraud-recoveries false-claims-act judicial-procedure medicaid-drug-rebates medicaid-fraud qui-tam whistleblower-rights This case shows my dozen relator council's, conspired with defense Councils, and my Judge with assistance of E. Pa. District Court Employees, and DOJ …
23-6737 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b 1. In determining whether a hearing related to equitable tolling is warranted, do the unsworn representations of an attorney —while that attorney is o…
23-5452 In Re Reinard Smith 2023-08-25 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process fraud fraud-upon-court injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct perjury standing • Did the District Court conspire to have jurisdiction over Petitioner's Motion for Injunctive Relief where, Petitioner sought to file his Motion for …
23A160 Brian Williams, Warden, et al. v. Reynaldo Agavo Ninth Circuit 2023-08-22 Presumed Complete attorney-misconduct clearly-established-law confrontation-clause equitable-tolling habeas-corpus section-2254 1. This case raises important questions of federal law involving (1) principles of equitable tolling, and (2) application of this Court's jurisprudenc…
23-55 J. Cory Cordova v. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adversary-system attorney-misconduct first-amendment fraud judicial-review litigation-tactics medicare-fraud public-interest sanctions viewpoint-discrimination Litigants may not weaponize the judicial system to sanction colorable arguments that in effect insulate its conduct from legitimate judicial challenge…
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…
22-6797 Dominick Galluzzo v. Internal Revenue Service Third Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure irs iRS-assessment judicial-misconduct proof-of-claim tax-court tax-dispute venue venue-selection Was I mis represented at bankruptcy by my attorney not asking for attachments to PROOF OF CLIAM accoding to rule 3001 and B10 (exhibits H & I) At 20…
22-6542 Warren Douglas Vann v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-claim procedural-deadline statute-of-limitations Whether, for purposes of a certificate of appealability, it is debatable that reasonable jurists would find that equitable tolling applies to the Peti…
22-6270 Charles H. Carter v. Gardaworld Security Services-US, et al. Maryland 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-hac-vice removal removal-procedure standing unauthorized-practice-of-law This case originated as a "adverse employment actions " event, which included a termination of employment, where Mr. Carter (hereinafter "Carter "), w…
22-6070 Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2022-11-16 Denied IFP aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation 1. Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct,…
22-5309 Saddam Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
22-5257 Daryl Stephen v. New York New York 2022-08-02 Denied IFP attorney-conduct attorney-misconduct civil-procedure damages legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-responsibility professional-standards standing tort-law Legal malpractice by petitioner attorney Contravenion of the law
22-5134 Bart J. Tarulli v. Ameriprise Financial Services Second Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion legal-violations merit-based-decision preponderance-of-evidence procedural-fairness self-representation standing 1) Does the court believe that ' cheating', and violating established law/rules must be addressed with an imposition of the clear penalties so listed…
21-7594 Orin Kristich v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-counsel attorney-misconduct court-discretion de-novo-review due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure plea-bargaining plea-waiver sentencing-guidelines supervised-release 1. Whether the Appellant's Appeal Counsel, Mr. Acton, can tell the court that the Appellant agrees to dismiss the Appeal without ever talking to the A…
21-6867 Gwendolyn Thorpe v. OneMain Financial Virginia 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment attorney-misconduct case-reversal civil-procedure disbarment disciplinary-action due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-irregularity rule-8 rule-8-violation 1. Can a judge reverse a case no: to a different case no: or can the judge oversee the plaintiff motion to dismiss the counter claim with the same cas…
21-784 In Re Melba L. Ford 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct conscience-based-duty court-discretion due-process equitable-relief fraud fraud-allegations judicial-duty judicial-ethics petition-review standing Question I. Do Justices owe a mandatory , non-discretionary, equitable, conscience-based moral duty to themselves, to all Federal Bar attorneys and …
21-529 Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. Georgia 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics 1. Do intentional false statements made by an attorney in a judicial proceeding violate the opposing party's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights? 2…
21-5909 Sands Cooper v. Advanced Internet Automation, LLC, et al. Virginia 2021-10-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure evidence evidence-tampering false-document federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b) judicial-misconduct pro-se procedural-defect workers-compensation 1. Should the defendant be awarded for criminally entering a false document that was used by the Court's Officer as evidence as a result of attorney m…
21-5121 Ben Young v. Crescent Management, LLC, et al. Oklahoma 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-usc-362 attorney-misconduct automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay creditor debt-collection mortgage-concealment mortgage-payment proof-of-claim Whether attorneys who filed and signed Proof of Claim on behalf of creditor violate automatic stay 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) by concealing …
21-5103 Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default 1. Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadl…
20-1672 Joan Carol Lipin v. Wisehart Springs Inn, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process first-amendment fraud-on-the-court judicial-authority summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent trust-agreement I. If the sanctity of the express and unambiguous written intent, terms, and conditions of an Act of Congress are inviolate, like the express and unam…
20-6358 Donna Marie Dawson v. Mary Ann Valdez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-misconduct civil-procedure eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination hr-policies hr-policy legal-procedure workplace-rights 1. CAN MARY ANN VALDEZ, WHO HAS AT LEAST 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN ESCROW/TITLE INSURANCE, WAS EMPLOYED BY SECURITY TITLE/FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE VIOLA…
20-6295 Donna Raively v. Thomas A. Whelihan New Jersey 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (3)IFP attorney-ethics attorney-misconduct case-conflict civil-procedure client-representation client-trust fiduciary-duty legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-misconduct standing 1. Whether an attorney is held to a certain standard of fiduciary duty in lower courts; his knowledge of the law far exceeds that of the average perso…
20-5009 Curtis Wiggins v. Golden Corral Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights court-partiality defamation-claim due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-on-court judicial-misconduct standing 1. Whether those lower courts, decision are reversed if Defense Attorney for Respondent, perpetrated-professional misconduct to defeat Petitioner; sup…
19-8427 Dillard James McNeley v. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fraud-upon-court rooker-feldman section-664.6 standing state-court-judgment 1. Did the District Court err in denying McNeley Request for an Evidentiary Hearing Motions in light of the 5th and 14th Amendment constitution rights…
19-8434 Audrey Jean Ukkerd v. State Bar of California California 2020-05-12 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights due-process fraud legal-ethics medical-evaluation professional-responsibility settlement-conference workers-compensation 1. Why did Attorney Michael Siegel, state that, "The State Bar of California states that, in your complaint . (Audrey J. Ukkerd), you assert that you…
19-8140 Benjamin Dennerlein v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct client-assault due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pre-trial-conduct prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ground I. Does Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) prejudice threshold condone the actions of Counsel, Thomas Kurt Fuchel, Sr., Esq. when Co…
19-7929 Caryn Hall Yost-Rudge v. A to Z Properties, Inc., et al. Florida 2020-03-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct city-attorney city-commission city-government civil-procedure disqualification due-process fraud legal-ethics municipal-fraud 1. Whether the Due Process Clause is made invalid by denying disqualification of an opposing attorney whom caused great harm as city vice-mayor yet co…
19-7926 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California 2020-03-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure fraud misconduct oral-argument standing appeal appellate-procedure attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct oral-argument standing Where rules of the court provides that oral argume Whether refusal of California Court of Appeal to vacate a judgment procured by fraud upon the court violated the right to due process of law of the pa…
19-1068 Keith Inchierchiere v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender retained-attorney sentencing-exposure seventy-year-term trial-rights 1. Does a defendant receive ineffective assistance of counsel where his retained attorney fails to appear on the first day of trial, and, after receiv…
19-890 Tom Jensen v. Hannah Blumenstiel, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct bankruptcy-court declaratory-relief due-process injunctive-relief judicial-immunity public-access Is a Bankruptcy Court judge absolutely immune from a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief for denial of public access to the court? Should…
19-716 Zhi Gang Zhang v. Dan Rasmus, et al. South Dakota 2019-12-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fraud attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fraud legal-malpractice Whether differences in the acquittal process between fraud committed by an attorney and fraud committed by a non-attorney in some but not all federal …
19-542 Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California California 2019-10-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant QUESTION NUMBER ONE How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged…
19-6228 Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-records post-conviction-review procedural-default torture 1. Was the US. Court of Appeals unfair for intentionally delaying the mailing of its December 19, 2013, opinion/memorandum, then mailing it 20 days be…
19-6212 Melissa Edwards v. Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-investigation attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process disability-rights due-process equal-protection government-transparency judicial-review judicial-transparency standing state-court-procedure 1. Is it unconstitutional for a state court to deny relief without explaining why relief was denied. 2. Is it unconstitutional for the Attorney Griev…
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.
19-240 Noah Thomas Ballard v. Vicky Lynn Ballard Tennessee 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-malpractice attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights damages divorce-decree due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-malpractice punitive-damages standing supreme-court-review 1. Can you, Please, overrule, the No. 2016DV97 decree, and award, decree, mandate, to me Noah T. Ballard, the accurate, appropriate, equitable, fair, …
19-5662 Carter Stephens v. Marcelo Britto Gomez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process henderson-factors judicial-intervention legal-ethics legal-malpractice sanctions standing state-bar state-bar-regulation 1. The plaintiff Carter Stephens was not informed by the State Bar of the abhorrent record of the neglectful attorney he subsequently retained. This a…
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…
18-9240 Carlos Cordoba v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure discovery-of-new-facts due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel limitations-period rule-35 section-2255 statute-of-limitations A one year statute of limitation exists for a federal prisoner to collaterally challenge his criminal judgment. The limitation period, however, is not…
18-8930 Amy Rebecca Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-1295 28-usc-1338 attorney-misconduct conflicts-of-law constitutional-access federal-circuit patent-appeal-jurisdiction patent-appeals patent-conflicts-of-interest patent-damages patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-statutes pro-se-litigation Whether the Second Circuit was void of jurisdiction to adjudicate the instant appeal and improperly defied US patent statutes and Federal Circuit law …
18-8262 Christian Dior Womack v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct court-appointed-attorney court-appointment criminal-justice-act due-process ethical-standards fee-violation indigent-client judicial-discretion professional-conduct professional-misconduct referral The question(s) presented is whether the District Court abused its discretion when it declined to refer the court-appointed attorney's misconduct to t…
18-1036 Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied 60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment 1. If a client is blameless, is a lawyer's gross neglect of the client's case a basis for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6)? (7-2 …
18-842 Gilbert Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied assistant-us-attorney attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process fraud government-negligence jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction us-attorney 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a U.S. District Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over a criminal prosecution…
18-768 In Re Kenneth P. Kellogg, et al. 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct civil-procedure class-action common-questions-of-fact contingent-fee-contracts fee-contract judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation mdl-transfer minnesota-law multidistrict-litigation pretrial-proceedings Whether the MDL Panel transfer of Kellogg from Minnesota to the Syngenta MDL for "pretrial proceedings" is a "judicial usurpation of power [and] a cle…
18-6743 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing is theRookerLFeidrñandoctrine constitutional when it fails, "to protect individual rights under the Constitution. . . the purpose of the U.S. Supreme …
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 …
18-6423 Marlan McRae v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-conflict fiduciary-conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics manifest-necessity sixth-amendment vague-precedent Can the unconscionable and illegal actions of an attorney, in addition to a fiduciary conflict of interest between an attorney and his client, amount …
18-502 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fraud post-removal-statute remand remand-order removal vacatur Does the post removal statute, Title 28 Section 1447, bar the vacatur of a remand order obtained by attorney misconduct and fraud? Plaintiffs were uns…
18-5843 Alexander Manjanja Chanthunya v. Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission Maryland 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline attorney-misconduct bar-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights cross-examination disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-hearing judicial-review standing Whether Maryland Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Petition, without opinion, that properly raised a constitutional issue regarding viola…
18-170 John Anthony Gentry v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-enforcement due-process federal-jurisdiction government-reform judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight republican-form republican-government sovereign-immunity state-reform state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign immunity is vitiated when the state government is no longer republican in character or form. Whether a citizen of a state…
18-156 James H. Brady v. John Goldman, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived air-rights attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-transaction constitutional-rights court-injunction court-interference due-process false-statements filing-injunction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings 1. Was it unconstitutional for Petitioner to be deprived of his right to sue for damages the lawyers and law firms that schemed together and used fals…
18-5320 James MacDonald v. Martin Dori Singer, et al. California 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-rules attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court free-speech organized-crime professional-conduct right-to-fair-trial right-to-petition slapp slapp-law standing unequal-protection California's SLAPP Law, was written to protect LAWFUL petitioning activities. However, it is now protecting UNLAWFUL petitioning activities. In this c…