| 25-6796 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
california-law constitutional-rights criminal-law judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-discretion |
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| 25-6654 |
Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. Christopher Pierce, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
california-law criminal-procedure due-process notice-requirement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1. Does the California Supreme Court's 1936 holding that a defendant's right to notice does not apply to facts which merely "increase the penalty" vio… |
| 25A561 |
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al. v. Lauren Sanchez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
california-law commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-challenge emissions-reporting first-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-192 |
Arthur Edward Ezor v. State Bar of California |
California |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-law disbarment legal-review petition-of-review supreme-court-of-california |
1. Should the Supreme Court of California have granted the Petition of Review?
2. Should the California Disbarment Order against Ezor be reversed? |
| 24-818 |
Trika Sprewell v. Juana Flores |
California |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
|
california-law conveyance mineral-interest property-rights quiet-title subsurface-lease |
Whether the lower Courts in California errored in reaching it's decisions made within this Quiet Title Action, without proper consideration of the par… |
| 24A293 |
David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
art-restitution california-law choice-of-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act nazi-looted-art spanish-law |
Question not identified. |
| 24A292 |
Bethesda University, et al. v. Seungje Cho, et al. |
California |
2024-09-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
california-law institutional-liability negligence private-university student-safety tort-claims |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 23-318 |
Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. |
California |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-proceedings california-law due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment preemption right-to-counsel |
Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt California law on the right to counsel in an arbitration proceeding?
Does the Due Process Clause of the Four… |
| 23-5367 |
Rebecca Wu v. Twin Rivers Unified School District |
California |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment california-law civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employment-status misclassification public-employee tenure tenure-classification |
Does the United States Constitution allow for an Indefinite probationary classification in California law of a public employee or Teacher because they… |
| 22-6569 |
Charles Heard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a VICAR murder conviction, which is in turn based upon a
second-degree murder under California law, constitute a categorical
crime of violence… |
| 22-251 |
Michael Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, as Trustee, et al. |
California |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
|
california-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing guardian-ad-litem minor-rights settlement-authority standing |
The 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause provides that "No state . . . shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of la… |
| 21-1236 |
In Re Kyko Global Inc., et al. |
|
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-fiduciary-duty california-law choice-of-law conflict-of-laws corporate-director corporate-law fiduciary-duty internal-affairs-doctrine panel-discretion pennsylvania-law |
Petitioners Kyko Global Inc. and Kyko Global GmbH assert breach of fiduciary duty claims against Respondent Omkar Bhongir in his capacity as a corpora… |
| 21-6586 |
Mark James Martinez v. California |
California |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
california-law civil-rights common-law constitutional-right deadly-force due-process fundamental-right governmental-interest heightened-scrutiny imminent-harm self-defense |
Whether California's rule that self-defense is not available when a person does not act out of fear alone impermissibly infringes on the constitutiona… |
| 21-621 |
Vince Flaherty, et al. v. Holly Hill Investments, LLC |
California |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
california-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-adequacy notice-of-judgment service-of-notice service-of-process state-law |
Whether California's no-evidence-allowed rule concerning the adequacy of service of notice of judgment is consistent with the Due Process Clause of th… |
| 20-1570 |
HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief |
This Court has repeatedly held that the Federal
Arbitration Act "protect[s]" agreements "to use individualized rather than class or collective action … |
| 20-909 |
Iqbal S. Randhawa v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
california-law federal-truth-in-lending-act foreclosure jesinoski-v-countrywide property-possession quiet-title statute-of-limitations tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act |
In 1968 Congress passed the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act, Title 1, known as the Federal Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1601 et seq., w… |
| 20-6659 |
Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. |
California |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr… |
| 19-7990 |
Gabriel L. Roman v. Sarah H. Kim, et al. |
California |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-access standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute is Unconstitutional |
| 19-1078 |
AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. v. Steven McArdle |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements california-law civil-procedure class-wide-injunction consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief |
California law authorizes plaintiffs asserting a claim under the State's consumer-protection laws to seek "public injunctive relief'—which it defines … |
| 19-7766 |
Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. |
California |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-6736 |
Ralph Colombo v. Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, et al. |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process legal-enforcement statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-469 |
John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness |
Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-5885 |
Olufemi S. Collins v. Mark Gonzalez, et al. |
California |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure california-appellate-law california-law california-rule-of-court civil-procedure court-rule due-process motion-to-recall parties procedural-dictate remittitur standing |
Whether in the 2nd Appellate District, Division 5, the Appellant's "Motion to Recall Remittitur and Reinstate Appeal" should be denied and disposed of… |
| 19-182 |
Francisca Guillen v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code california-law district-court-discretion electronic-records employee-protection employee-rights jury-instructions labor-code labor-law labor-standards-enforcement statutory-interpretation wage-statements |
1. Whether it was error not to instruct a jury on the law set forth in almost 20-years of opinions of California's Department of Labor Standards Enfor… |
| 19-38 |
Malcolm McGee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-law federal-sentence-enhancement felony-drug-offense recidivist-sentence-enhancement recidivist-sentencing resentencing retroactive-reduction sentence-enhancement state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-prison-sentence successful-attack |
When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a "successful attack" on a state prison sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhancem… |
| 18A1268 |
Thomas More Law Center v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
associational-rights attorney-general-enforcement california-law donor-privacy first-amendment nonprofit-disclosure |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7056 |
David Leonard Johnson v. California |
California |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery |
I.
IS THE CRIME OF RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY
A LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF ROBBERY, AND
IF SO, WAS THE TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE. TO
INSTRUCT ON RECEIV… |
| 18-6977 |
James Edward Mitchell v. California |
California |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation |
DOES THE STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION FOR RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY IN CALIFORNIA VIOLATE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHERE IT FAILS TO CONVEY THAT THE "DI… |
| 18-5195 |
Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness |
1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW, WHEN PROSECUTOR MISSTATED LAW, MISSTATED TESTIMONY, AND MISSTATED EVIDENCE TO THE JURY?
2. WHETH… |