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25-6769 In Re David J. Gottorff 2026-02-10 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment Question 1. Whether the arrest and prosecution of the Petitioner in Ouray District Court case 2022 CR 8 was in criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512(d)…
25-6666 Daniel Carlos Garcia v. Chad Bianco, Sheriff, Riverside County, California Ninth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim double-jeopardy habeas-petition penal-code younger-abstention 1. Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's habeas petition on Younger abstention grounds without addressing the threshold question…
25-6645 La'Shaun Clark v. New York City Housing Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment collateral-estoppel due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification magistrate-assignment The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Lavoie, 475 U.S. 813 (1986) "quoting "Page 475 U. S. 831 The participation of a judge who has a…
25-6444 Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. Florida 2025-12-30 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p…
25-299 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-court collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-review revenue-impact 1. Whether the appellate court committed error by overturning Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U.S. 88 (2004) by holding that any constitutional claim arising di…
25-5401 Gregory Matthew Seay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-08-19 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy equal-protection manifest-necessity mistrial (1) DOES THE OKLAHOMA COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS' DECISION IN THE INSTANT CASE CONTRADICT THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF THE NORTHERN DISTR…
25-5310 Maurice Bernard Moore v. Daniel L. Hebert, former District Judge, Saline County of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy habeas-corpus rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity 1. Why the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruling conflicts with the Third Circuit on the Matter of Rooker-Feldman Provision not overrulin…
25-5038 Nicholas Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-deceit collateral-estoppel federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure new-york-law statutory-interpretation If Marrese v. Am. Acad, of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 470 U.S. 373, 380 (1985) and/or 28 U.S.C. § 1738 are controlling, should the Federal Court recognize …
24-7452 Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart California 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participa…
24A1230 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-enforcement collateral-estoppel contract-severability federal-arbitration-act issue-preclusion supremacy-clause (1) Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides the equitable estoppel to enforce arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.…
24-6722 Ashley Muse v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-jurisdiction res-judicata state-court Question not identified.
24-916 Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel dismissal-stipulation federal-circuit non-merits-determination patent-claims rule-12(b)(6) When a district court grants a Rule -12(b)(6) motion to dismiss but does so without prejudice and with leave to amend, may that non-merits deter minat…
24-5592 Deshawn Andrew Boylan v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-findings sixth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously reversed the District Courts grant of habeas relief based on trial counsels ineffective assistance in failing to…
24-5493 Francisco Jose Lopez v. California California 2024-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-estoppel dna-testing due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief There has NEVER been a case where two different persons were convicted in two separate trials -- with inconsistant evidence -- of both pulling the s…
24-128 Caf Dowlah v. American Arbitration Association, et al. New York 2024-08-05 Denied Response Waived arbitral-immunity butz-v-economou civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct res-judicata A. Does a conflict exist between the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16) and the Supreme Court decision in Butz u. Economou, 438 U.S. 478 (1978…
23-999 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits 1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience, like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38 U.S.…
23-967 Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause …
23-6640 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-claim collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation coram-nobis cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-error res-judicata Did South Dakota Supreme Court abuse its discretion, affirming South Dakota Fourth Judicial Circuit Court 's dismissal of Petitioner 's Petition For W…
23-811 Barry Ahuruonye v. Department of the Interior District of Columbia 2024-01-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process issue-preclusion merit-systems-protection-board mootness standing wage-increase (1) Whether the principles of collateral estoppel/Issue preclusion applies when Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) a quasi-judicial federal adminis…
23-6189 Karen Gail Brainen Kleinman v. Cynthia A. Norton, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions bankruptcy-procedure collateral-estoppel creditor-rights due-process judicial-immunity res-judicata stare-decisis statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the intent of Congress in enacting 11 U.S.C. §522(1) and Fed.R.Bankr.P. 4003(b) as interpreted by this Court 's precedential and controll…
23-605 Erich M. Martin v. Raina L. Martin Nevada 2023-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) collateral-estoppel due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-convenience preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits 1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience, like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38 U.S.…
23-5972 Barney A. Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-statement notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appellant procedural-default 1. Since the U.S, District Court has Subsequently Confirmed that, the Not/ce . oF Appeal in question was, im fact, timely Filed, Should the Court of A…
23-5694 Orlando Peay v. Michael Burgess, Warden Michigan 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge malfeasance obstruction-of-justice res-judicata DID homicide detectives violate Circuit Court Judge Zilkowsky's order "immediate discharge from confinement in this case"? DID the second arrest mome…
23-53 Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's independent action on the basis of collateral estoppel and…
23-28 Claude Townsend, Jr. v. New Jersey Transit Third Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied collateral-estoppel constitutional-law dismissed-case due-process fourteenth-amendment new-evidence res-judicata social-security 1) Can Res judicata and Collateral estoppel interfere with the Fourteenth Amendment's constitutional due process when new evidence is presented to a d…
23-13 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Travis Abbott, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (7) bellwether-trials civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process judicial-procedure multidistrict-litigation representative-sample representativeness Whether nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel can be applied to make the results of a handful of unrepresentative bellwether trials binding on the d…
22-1089 Ray James Foster v. Deborah Lynn Foster Michigan 2023-05-09 Denied 38-usc-5301 collateral-estoppel disability-benefits disability-law federal-preemption judicial-convenience res-judicata state-court-doctrine veterans-benefits 1. May state law doctrines of judicial convenience, like res judicata and collateral estoppel, be raised against a preemptive federal statute, 38 U.S.…
22-1059 Jorge Marc Gonzalez-Betancourt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture collateral-estoppel controlled-substances double-jeopardy exhaustion fifth-amendment ruan-v-united-states state-prosecution After losing their civil forfeiture appeal, the City of Tampa turned over the exact same evidence to the State of Florida in a successful attempt to c…
22-7302 Derek Skellchock v. Alora-Ann Volz Colorado 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-estoppel disability-compensation federal-preemption judicial-review res-judicata state-court-jurisdiction state-domestic-relations supremacy-clause veterans-benefits 1. Where the federal agency with "exclusive jurisdiction" over "all questions of law and fact" concerning a dependent's claim for a portion of a veter…
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit DID THE APPEALS COURT FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERROR BY DENYING PETITIONERS CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE APPELLATE COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASS…
22-5817 Brandon Craig Wood v. Eric Sellers, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abatement administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-litigation civil-procedure collateral-estoppel dismissal-without-prejudice exhaustion full-and-fair-opportunity judicial-procedure (1) Does collateral estoppel bar a Plaintiff from challenging the Defendants' failure to exhaust administrative remedies defense when exhaustion is a …
22-5805 Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-structural-error due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) DO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS UNDER FORTBEND COUNTY, TEXAS v. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 1843( U.S.2019) AND HALL v. HALL, 138 S.Ct. 1118, 200…
22-5744 Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. Hawaii 2022-10-03 Denied IFP animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution the same as the standard of reasonableness under neglig…
22-298 Jump Rope Systems, LLC v. Coulter Ventures, LLC, dba Rogue Fitness Federal Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-validity preclusion-doctrine restatement-of-judgments Whether, as a matter of federal patent law, a determination of unpatentability by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes review proceedi…
22-5371 Darrell Harris v. Robert Hudgins, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel federal-court federal-offense federal-prosecution issue-preclusion res-judicata sixth-amendment speedy-trial WHETHER PRINCIPLES OF "RES JUDICATA" TRIGGERED APPLI CATION OF ISSUE PRECLUSION AND COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL SO AS TO DEPRIVE THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUTHORI…
22-133 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Kronos Incorporated Federal Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response Waived appeal-dismissal civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-procedure court-docketing due-process fee-waiver improperly-decided-case judicial-conflict-of-interest precedent-review standing trustees-of-dartmouth-college-v-woodward 1. Whether dismissing an appeal when a fee waiver Motion is pending is constitutional. 2. Whether dismissing the appeal after annihilating the record…
21-8229 Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou…
21-8209 Alan M. Leschyshyn v. AbbVie Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-law case-filing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel contemporaneous-filing issue-preclusion judicial-discretion prior-decision summary-judgment One of the four elements for the doctrine of collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion under Arizona law is previous case. Did the lower court err or a…
21-1505 Mark H. Bonner v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived article-i-court clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error collateral-estoppel equitable-jurisdiction equitable-remedy federal-circuit res-judicata veterans-claims The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is an Article I court, and does not have the general equity jurisdiction of U.S. District Courts or othe…
21-1233 Mark R. Joubert v. Todd Miley Massachusetts 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship collateral-estoppel due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty legal-restriction liberty-interest non-legal-business occupational-freedom standard-of-review state-court I. May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a l…
21-6917 Joseph Earl Clark, II v. Shawn Lindsey Britt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and/or abused its discretion in affirming summary judgment against petitioner. Can court dismiss claims in the compl…
21-6498 Hye-Young Park v. Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1915-e-2-b collateral-estoppel judge judicial-remedies plausibility-standard prior-suit res-judicata sexual-harassment university-policy This Case presents conflicting interpretations between the Lower Courts and the Supreme Court regarding the application of res judicata, collateral es…
21-573 John L. Roseman, Sr. v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability disability-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination pro-se-litigation second-amendment termination Whether, in contravention to collateral estoppel doctrine, courts below relitigated, inter alia, issues of: (1) whether pro se litigant Roseman was di…
21-430 Luke T. West v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution 1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o…
21-407 James P. Mhina v. Beth Van Doren, Assistant District Attorney of Onondaga County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived civil-action collateral-estoppel criminal-action due-process issue-preclusion res-judicata UNDER HE DOCIRINE OF RES JUDICATA, OR CLAIM PRECLUSION AND DOCTRINE OF COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL DOES THE FINAL JUDGMENT ON THE MERS OF A CRIMINAL ACTON PRE…
21-5393 Hemy Neuman v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-law reversal-of-conviction substantive-law trial-reversal Where a defendant is found guilty at a second trial after reversal of the first trial's verdict of guilty but mentally ill: 1) Is a double jeopardy cl…
21-5150 John B. Freitas v. Bank of America Ninth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation court-officer-accountability due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct racketeering real-estate-dispute res-judicata void-altered-defective-deeds Whether local, state and federal court officers, among which are judges, attorneys, sheriffs, clerks, county recorders and notaries public, should be …
21-77 Technical Education Services Inc. v. Steven Pinkerton Missouri 2021-07-21 Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement arbitrator collateral-estoppel delegation-provisions federal-arbitration-act threshold-arbitrability Whether a dispute over the collateral estoppel effect of a prior arbitration decision must be submitted to and decided by an arbitrator pursuant to th…
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…
20-1508 Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim Issue 1. Did the resolution of the tort claim against Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or claim that plaintiff raises in the presen…
20-1509 Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee Georgia 2021-04-28 Dismissed article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing 1. Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Co…
20-7352 In Re Henry Lee Rudolph 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion Did the Utah Supreme Court commit fraud by stating The Framers rights were desired by and Rodelph requested, and by stating Three Tiered banner Violat…
20-1231 Jennifer Smith v. Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied adverse-employment-action burlington-northern collateral-estoppel employment-law equal-pay gender-discrimination salary-discrimination salary-equity 1. Whether, under federal equal pay laws, the employer unlawfully discriminated against a female employee by failing to apply its salary equity adjust…
20-1165 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied 35-usc-282 access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process patent-law separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming collateral estoppel without once proving it applying Supreme Court precedent dating back more t…
20-1013 Clarence J. Simon v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied administrative-procedure benefits-disqualification collateral-estoppel compensation-benefits lhwca-section-33(g) longshore-worker longshore-workers-compensation maritime-law settlement-authority third-party-settlement Is a longshore worker permanently disqualified from receiving any benefits from his employer because his counsel, who lacked actual or apparent author…
20-6620 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-remedies XM F* F) P-ec'-erpyi Hcdagcxs Corpus For criMtNPd os^ej^cftNfS irJ c-hevieNQiNc. tVie V€-GrR-'-\FY OF ThOT CONiFlNx2»Ae.MF WeFoce -fir^r st^TS *fTfA…
20-778 Anthony T. Grose, Sr. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-question due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata standing 1. The question present to this Court in this Civil Action matter, [suit or proceeding in a court of the United States to which, against the United St…
20-6503 George J. Raudenbush, III v. Monroe County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process false-prosecution in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance police-brutality right-to-counsel 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by denying Raudenbush's application to proceed in forma pauperis. 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by finding th…
20-6458 Clayton Lee Waagner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition collateral-estoppel indictment indictment-statute ohio-aggravated-burglary predicate-offense statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether the "statute of conviction" must be used for an ACC A predicate offense, or can the district court use the statute listed on the indictment in…
20-631 Hologic, Inc., et al. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied administrative-proceedings america-invents-act assignor-estoppel collateral-estoppel infringement-litigation patent-infringement patent-office patent-validity The question presented is whether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned…
20-6195 Erlin Josue Torres Zuniga v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication administrative-agency-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-to-appear removal-proceedings I. Whether and under what circumstances the government may invoke collateral estoppel against a criminal defendant based on a prior administrative age…
20-5823 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights contempt-trial double-jeopardy due-process government-action habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pretrial-proceedings 1 pUrSUANT to 28 USC 2241, A pretrial petitioner MAY ChAlleNGe his custodt THAT S IN VIOIAHION OF the consttumon its laws and trenties. COgNIzAble ClA…
20-388 Lingfei Sun v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel continuing-violation-doctrine district-court due-process res-judicata standing Did Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit must determine the Petitioner's current U.S. district court suit whether applicable continuing violation d…
20-5680 Larry R. Steele v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violations due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing state-court-review Question not identified.
20-260 Personal Audio, LLC v. CBS Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied appointments-clause collateral-estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law reexamination-clause seventh-amendment waiver 1. Must the collateral estoppel effect of an inter partes review be raised and litigated in the appeal of the inter partes review, rather than in the …
20-121 Marshall Spiegal v. Michael C. Kim Seventh Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel debt-collection debt-collector-allegations debtor-conduct direct-connection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa judicial-notice statutory-interpretation transaction-nexus The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") covers debts "arising out of" certain transactions. Does "arising out of" require a "direct" connecti…
20-5175 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-07-24 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction *THe FUA^A/v S0%6 m£ Qmsf HftJ, Gmmf'TtfP &&QQ it f/niso -fc m m&vrs of; 15 A DOOfibe r&ft&j Com AfX/o^WiS j67 k fLA, &> C^ aA> ft ftiNM- S.^x) t«0. …
20-16 Edward Wayne Binns v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-complaint equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances res-judicata standing title-vii WHETHER AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION COMPLAINT FILING, IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WOULD BE TIMELY FILED FOR A TITLE 7 ACTION, U…
19-8827 David Fowler v. Indymac Bank, FSB, et al. New York 2020-06-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review leave-to-amend motion-for-leave state-court-jurisdiction Whether justice is ultimately served when the State of New York Court of Appeals gave no detailed reasoning in denying Petitioner's motion for leave t…
19-1386 D. C., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Helen Garter v. San Diego County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-certification collateral-estoppel damages damages-analysis issue-certification negative-value predominance predominance-test rule-23 superiority 1. Does rule 23(c)(4) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("Rule 23(c)(4)") require only that common questions predominate over individual ones wi…
19-8511 Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale Eighth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether a 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights action based on Fourth Amendment illegal search and seizure claims are barred under the Doctrine of Heck v. Hum…
19-1181 Estate of Thomas Steinbeck, et al. v. Waverly Scott Kaffaga, as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 17-usc-304 collateral-estoppel copyright-act copyright-law copyright-termination licensing-rights res-judicata statutory-interpretation vesting Whether collateral estoppel bars an affirmative defense based on 17 U.S.C. § 304(c)(5) in a second litigation, when the first litigation involving dif…
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question On March 3rd, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the 3rd District ruled that sex-for-drugs played no part in Dr. Rottschaefer's convictions and that Dr. R…
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1. "Was Petitioner 's conviction a result of a procedure, §17.1-293.1 that violates 1st Amendment U.S. Constitutional Civil Rights to access correct …
19-916 Vernon Wendell Risby v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel due-process leosa mandamus retaliation title-vii 1. Is Collateral Estoppel applicable where the prior Mandamus case dealt only with the issue of whether the Agency was obligated under LEOSA to prov…
19-6571 Francisco Illarramendi v. John J. Carney, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations-sec-28-usc- collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process pdvsa-venezuela sec sec-enforcement sec-receiver-parallel-criminal-proceedings statute-of-limitations summary-judgment summary-judgment-collateral-estoppel summary-judgment-standard-tolan-v-cotton supreme-court-doctrine The following questions are presented for the Court's review: 1. Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Cou…
19-6475 Burton Maurice Kahn v. Robert Ripley Fifth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merits res-judicata standing 1. If in the initial trial, the Court refused to hear litigation of the merits, should future Courts apply res judicata or collateral estoppel to the …
19-6413 Ricky Langley v. Howard Prince, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal ashe-v-swenson collateral-estoppel constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-verdict Whether it is clearly established that a jury's failure to return a verdict, which is tantamount to an acquittal for double jeopardy purposes, will ha…
19-537 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. Norman Solomon, et al. California 2019-10-24 Denied 501(c)(3)-preemption bankruptcy-automatic-stay bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process frivolous-appeal monetary-sanctions new-york-times-v-sullivan public-interest standing state-court-judgment (1) Whether a Judgment of a State Court Violates the Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy Because the Judgment Was Because of Collateral Estoppel to Attack A …
19-489 Lawrence G. Hutchins, III v. United States Armed Forces 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived acquittal collateral-estoppel conspiracy criminal-charge criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion military-justice retrial Whether the right under the Double Jeopardy Clause to the issue preclusive effect of an acquittal applies where precluded and un-precluded facts are a…
19-477 Arletta J. Kurowski v. Estate of Kenneth H. Kurowski, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied collateral-estoppel court-of-competent-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rights full-and-fair-opportunity-to-litigate judicial-competency native-american-rights tribal-court-exhaustion tribal-court-jurisdiction Upon tribal court exhaustion must District Courts perform a threshold inquiry to protect the Indian Petitioners' federal 25 U.S.C. § 1302 rights?
19-390 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice 1. Whether district court orders dedicate any section of the opinion(s) to deny petitioner's Civil RICO 18 U.S.C. 1961-1964, in the verified complaint…
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION, Art. 1, Sec. 9, cl. 3, IS VIOLATED WHEN A NEWLY MODIFIED STATE PAROLE REGULATION IS APPLIED. II…
19-261 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel due-process informal-notice statute-of-limitations sua-sponte-sanction tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-assessment-statute-of-limitations tax-code tax-court tax-return valid-return Whether the court below, in conflict with its own precedents as well as those of this Court and five other Circuit Courts of Appeal, erred in holding …
19-97 Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment This Court has repeatedly instructed that the use of collateral estoppel is limited to situations where "the issues in the two cases are … identical,"…
19-84 Lawrence Mulligan v. Bruce Jalbert, et ux. Second Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process full-faith-and-credit state-court-record summary-judgment Whether the United States Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it affirmed the granting of Respondents' Motion for Summary Judgment based exclusively o…
19-5033 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with. Whether adjudicating collateral estoppel f…
18A1313 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Presumed Complete collateral-estoppel deficiency sanctions statute-of-limitations tax-court tax-return Question not identified.
18-9346 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent patent-prosecution procedural-fairness PREAMBLE # I. Collateral Estoppel Effect Must Be Denied In Cases of Particularized Unfairness to the Precluded Party, Where the Overriding Concern of …
18-9224 Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights habeas-corpus sec securities-enforcement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
18-1397 Prism Technologies LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., dba Sprint PCS Federal Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-scope mandate-rule patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-invalidity retroactive-expansion Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals may retroactively expand the scope of its appellate jurisdiction to invalidate patent claims under 35 U.S…
18-1390 Rochell Talley v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process foreclosure notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limits Rochell Talley, the Petitioner, requests this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted given the salient issues of a pro se litigant complying with …
18-1340 Bonnie R. Fowler v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel dismissal due-process federal-question res-judicata standing state-actor supervisory-power Does the doctrines of res-judicata and collateral estoppel fail when the Petitioner has repeatedly disputed and proven that not any one of the necessa…
18-8903 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata Should Res judicata and Collateral, Estoppel Doctrines be able to Barr an Independent or an Original Action in Federal Court when; the Defendants Witt…
18-8878 Abdullahi Hamu Jara v. Standard Parking, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel due-process federal-question issue-preclusion labor-management-relations-act merits merits-judgment res-judicata title-vii What degree of conduct following the first judgement is necessary to give to rise to a new claim? Storey, 347 F.3d 383. See eBay INC .v MercExchange. …
18-1292 Craig Roth v. Nassau County, New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability due-process employment federal-claims judicial-procedure Are lower courts correctly applying the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel to bar federal claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
18-8523 Tynisha Latrice Reinerio, nka Akosua Tanisha Aaebo v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-usc-7003 account-debtor collateral-estoppel diversity-jurisdiction eighth-circuit mortgage-law mortgage-loan negotiable-instrument note-negotiation res-judicata security-interest standing statutory-trust ucc ucc-3-103(a)(12) ucc-3-110(b) ucc-9-102(a)(3) ucc-9-312(e)-(g) uniform-commercial-code Was the issue of res judicata and collateral estoppel improperly decided by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals? Did the Eight Circuit improperly ado…
18-8173 Ruben R. Herrera v. Brandon Price Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement pre-trial-detention CLAIMS FOR RELIEF A. CLAIM ONE: PETITIONER'S PRE-TRIAL DETENTION AGAINST HIS FIFTH AND AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINS DOUBLE JEOPARDY. Becaus…
18-1025 Lillie Leon v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitration arbitration-decision arbitration-hearing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process hall-street-assoc-v-mattel legal-preclusion res-judicata standard-of-review Petitioner testified and submitted evidence during a 3-day 3020-a hearing, wherein the Arbitrator, Felice Busto rejected material evidence from Petiti…
18-7778 Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy Government prosecutors strategically decided to subdivide their prosecution of petitioner's ongoing New York city enterprise into two parts. The first…
18-7411 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 The Petitioner first filed a state court declaratory judgment action claiming that the state Parole Board had (1) made an ex post facto change to paro…
18-897 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Marlene Nally, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph Nally, Sr., Deceased Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle jury-findings litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-doctrine res-judicata standing tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-898 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-788 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Gwendolyn E. Odom, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Juanita Thurston Florida 2018-12-20 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny jury-findings legal-procedure litigation-strategy preclusion preclusion-principles res-judicata standing tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-775 Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction For No. 18-6346, the question is whether the order is void which committed administrative error, a nonjudicial act by not issuing summons to defendant…
18-7082 Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal I. May collateral estoppel ever be applied offensively against a criminal defendant, to bar him from relitigating an issue resolved in a previous case…
18-653 Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Vickie McKeever, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore McKeever Florida 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-proceeding res-judicata standing Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w…
18-621 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Mary Faricy Pardue, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John N. Faricy Florida 2018-11-14 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-jury-findings res-judicata tobacco Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits a plaintiff to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of her claims without sh…
18-549 Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC Federal Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied 35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten…
18-264 New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k…
18-231 New West, L.P., et al. v. City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived beacon-theatres civil-rights civil-rights-act collateral-estoppel due-process equitable-claims fair-housing-act jury-trial parklane-hosiery 1. When a single district court Judge has control over all legal and equitable claims before it in a single proceeding, even though the proceeding inv…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order 1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c…
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant If a defendant is convicted of a lesser included offense of a higher level charge, does the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit retrying…
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search WAS THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO AFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN HIS FIRST DIRECT APPEAL OF RIGHT VIOLATED WHEN COUNSEL REFUSED TO BRIEF HIS FOURTH AM…