citizenship

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25-5666 William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdictional-discovery llc-status removal 1. Whether a federal court may remand a case for lack of diversity jurisdiction based on speculation about an LLC 's citizenship without allowing ju…
25-5040 Nicholas Weir v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship conscientious-objection first-amendment military-service naturalization oath-of-allegiance Can the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS ") and its employees deny an application for naturalization because the applicant …
23-6767 Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities 1. Does the fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, by means through the Hm% §liuii (which imlyiii the duil=©itiiiniMp elsuii, thi pfivilggii …
23-5596 Edward James Steiner v. Washington Washington 2023-09-15 Denied IFP citizenship civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct standing witness-tampering Was there prosecutorial misconduct? Was tape of evidence? Is this in state jail? Will this case and others bring like the first U.S. Citizens? Wil…
22-7330 Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial…
22-6275 Dalton Alonzo Dixon v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP 13th-amendment citizenship civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-labor-program government-program involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment CONSENT OF CLASS BAJ , idun pardici pacing o^Vernmojal program ? \\ -(Wa, S^a^orn prt50n>p^on(s) ftrc(L labor a Violation of db<Lin an ran /) "tfhrW…
22-5651 In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El 2022-09-22 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment Question not identified.
22-199 Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied Response Waived citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is the first question to be answered by both the district courts and the courts of appeals, when a civil complaint is presented to them, whether …
21-6907 Linda Baldwin v. Zurich American Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-procedure class-action class-decertification constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling privileges-and-immunities 1. Constitution of the United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992). All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction…
21-755 Carter Page, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-1332 carden-v-arkoma citizenship complete-diversity diversity diversity-jurisdiction domicile newman-green partnership partnership-defendant stateless-citizen Whether a U.S. Citizen domiciled abroad who is a member of a partnership defendant destroys the complete diversity required by 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), wh…
21-489 Ahmed Ali Muthana v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) citizenship citizenship-status diplomatic-immunity due-process legal-inconsistency passport passport-revocation revocation state-department state-department-certification Is the U.S. State Department's certification of an individual's diplomatic status reasonably considered conclusive and unreviewable evidence, even whe…
21-5007 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection racial-segregation reconstruction slavery state-sovereignty What Branch of law authorized the States to are abolished Slave labels (Hest: Blacks Colo ced) to aur Peccon, of African descent, after 1865.A.2.? A.…
20-1746 Temor S. Sharifi v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment citizenship due-process fifth-amendment foreign-law just-compensation property-rights takings Petitioner was born in Afghanistan. He immigrated to the United States and became a United States citizen. His siblings and other relatives remained i…
20-979 Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a non-discretionary determination that a noncitizen is i…
20-5847 John James Hartz v. Washington Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship civil-rights due-process immigration naturalization standing Whether the Washington State Constitution's Article I, Section 24, which permits prosecution by information without a grand jury indictment, violates …
20-5043 Jiping Rizk v. Defense Finance and Accounting Service Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination language security-clearance workplace-termination In the United State, there are no institution or no law to correct the illegal act by the Security Clearance? This case is simply only a matter of la…
19-7673 Tzedkiyah El Bey, fka James Richard Warren v. Willie Weaver, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights common-law-rights constitutional-rights due-process indigenous-status legislative-interference right-to-travel standing state-power travel 1) Does the de jure A1 Maurikan/ American National/ Citizen as distinguished from a defacto resident; have the common right to travel upon the public …
19-7351 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-14th-15th-amendments 14th-amendment-property 8th-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment amendment-interpretation black-negro-colored-citizenship citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-questions-28-usc-1331-1332 jurisdiction moorish-american-national property racial-identity-rights standing 1. Do the United Siates Constiiution, the United States Congress and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have Averoment of Jurisdiction…
19-6088 Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant …
19-6010 John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-20 Closed IFP citizenship civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process foreign-nationals jurisdiction residency standing state-treaties subject-of-foreign-nation 1. DoEs THE UnFEd SIAEsSuREME CAE "ORigiNAl JuRiSdICTiON"IN 30u.5.1, 2. CAN ONE beASIATE CTiZN ANd NOT AU.S. CiTiZEN? 83U.S.36,
19-219 Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response Waived citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee In Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods, 136 S.Ct. 1012 (2016), this Court ruled that, for diversity, a real estate investment trust was a citizen …
19-5204 Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence I wish for the court to review the errors Comitted in vidence Was allowed nowever I do not agree on the basis that now I have a criminal record and wi…
18-9749 Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel 1. Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabita…
18-9633 Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation (1) Will the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father violate the equal protection…
18-1420 Timothy Burns v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection court-procedure court-reporting custody damages discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-conduct legal-damages standing Are Plaintiff and minor child A.B. citizens of the United States? Are minor child A.B. and Plaintiff guaranteed protection under the United States Co…
18-8628 Deon Tremell Lee v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment citizenship citizenship-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction nationality naturalization property-rights How the word "Buack" can Find no tormal place within the nationalities of the human tamily and Stillcan bemade citizen of any Iree national and consti…
18-6345 Felix J. Bruette, Jr. v. Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior Seventh Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-act congressional-authority due-process indian-reorganization-act land-rights political-doctrine property-rights reservation-lands tribal-affiliation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty The Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Community was created by the Department of the.Interior in 1937.,by authority of the Indian Reorganization Act., under s…
18-178 SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity 1. Should the Court resolve the split of authority among the Circuits about whether and when the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporat…
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…