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25-620 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-12-01 Denied class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour After under two months, commencing after Thanks giving 2020 until separation just after Epiphany 2021, respondent Sara Perez held temporary employment…
25-339 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing, both based o…
25-5440 Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-08-22 Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment litigation-schedule public-conscience sixth-amendment 1. Whether the "evolving standards of decency" test, which has been recognized for Eighth Amendment protections, should be used to analyze other const…
25A182 Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. Arizona 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government When a local government, imposes excessive fines in violation of Amendment VIII to the Constitution; can the right to petition the government for redr…
25-5330 Raymond Dugan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-protections fourth-circuit joint-venture law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the "Joint-Venture " doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections? 2. Should t…
24-1077 Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew Nevada 2025-04-15 Dismissed constitutional-protections due-process excessive-fines fair-notice gore-guideposts punitive-damages The Constitution requires that "a person receive fair notice not only of the conduct that will subject him to punishment, but also of the severity of …
24-6696 James R. Turner, III v. Edward Rapp Second Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-protections due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion recusal 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in violation of and applicab…
24-6548 Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement Does law enforcement's involvement in the arrest and use of force against Ms. Kynnedi 'Rae Charles potentially violate fundamental constitutional prot…
24A404 Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tomason Washington 2024-10-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process family-court judicial-review pro-se Question not identified.
24-5036 Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights combat-speech constitutional-protections deadly-force deadly-physical-force excessive-force law-enforcement penal-law retreat-duty self-defense use-of-force \AjaS %txt 6o&tCi**vV cvi^wce, Vo 'pehhov'ter ko^c-cbbor Czq^ctA by }vleuJ YorK Pencx,\ Unuj VW Xa>V v 35 \6 txYOO "po-Yif\onef l5 -£outore Vo feVfe«&…
23-7633 Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III Maryland 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights Question 1: Given that the Equal Rights Amendment is now Ratified, have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the righ…
23-7631 Julie C. Abril v. Colorado Colorado 2024-06-04 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act colorado constitutional-protections crime-victim-act crime-victims crime-victims-rights due-process justice-system mental-health mental-health-justice-system public-law-98-473 victim-accommodations Crime Victims Act; Credible Fear; Need for Self-Protection from Harm 1. Do crime victims have the right to full participation in the confidential men…
23A1077 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-protections federal-interests section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations 1. This case raises an important question of federal law regarding the appropriate statute of limitations for claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: whether a…
23A907 Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete carbon-copy-indictment constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-7017 Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-protections disability disability-rights due-process fair-play judicial-discrimination legal-access self-represented systemic-bias 1. Do state and federal jurisprudence systemically eliminate rights and access to legal remedies for self-represented disabled litigants with invisibl…
23-6834 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions? Does supervised release conditions as applied invoke Doub…
23-6455 Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search 1) first: 4:99-01.2-BCW; When wasLibfie Federal Government allowed to "open" a [case] against me in 1999, and when was any indictment fitst made publi…
23-496 Sharan Garlapati v. Brigham & Women's Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights coercion constitutional-protections cyberstalking due-process obstruction-of-justice privacy privacy-rights stalking-by-proxy Does the fundamental right to privacy still exist in our modern digital age, and do conspiracies against rights, acts of "cyberstalking" and stalking-…
23-316 Curtiss Davis, III v. Pedro Bonilla, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process intelligence-identities-protection-act punitive-damages restitution sanctuary-policies standing summary-judgment Whether both the US District and US Court of Appeals had inequitably applied US laws to deny restitution; as well as, a default summary judgment and p…
23-5510 Anthony James Braxton v. Larry E. Harrah, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process property-rights search-and-seizure 1. DO I HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FROM THE 5th, 9th,, and 14th AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, TO RECEIVE A NOTICE THAT MY SEIZED PROPERTY…
23-5090 Travis J. Brown v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP acquittal appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review mistrial procedural-error WHETHER A STATE COURT SUBMITS A SUCCESSION OF VERDICTS BOTH GUILTY AND NOT GUILTY OF THE SAME COUNT, AGAINST THE SAME DEFENDANT, AND TO THE SAME TRIAL…
22-7677 Francis Okiemute Akpore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-tort-claims-act immigration immigration-law jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice removal removal-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Does 8 U.S.C. 1252(g) strip the district court of subject matter jurisdiction to hear a noncitizen's FTCA claim of wrongful removal in violation of a …
22-7602 James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho Idaho 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
22-7163 In Re Marcus Marko Bachmayer 2023-03-30 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process familial-rights family-law federal-common-law habeas-corpus standing state-applicability Whether a child's familial relationships are protected. Whether the Bill of Rights is applicable to the States. Whether the district court engaged i…
22-5843 Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure n/mWA' s We \\me\h foe Orcieto^9\ oV^ ok\ Z% VjSiC, ZZ5^ viaVof Kcv\D |2JpiS Cor^^S f lf3v>^ c\eo^vhi-a^ WsSicyvKs^ "Yo YncvWkSONi AJiqW^ oW ©2 STOPS'…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional? May Federal Agencies Adjudicate Violent Behavior Cases in Secret "Star Chamber" Tribunals, and Then Bar the…
22-5465 LaRoyce McFadden v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process interrogation-rights involuntary-confession juvenile-justice juvenile-suspect police-interrogation police-procedure right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignor…
22-5431 Davante Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections courtroom-closure due-process fair-trial government-agent public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error (1) Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment of …
22-5027 Justin D. Bennett v. Texas Texas 2022-07-05 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-protections constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia out-of-court-statements sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Wheather the due process standard recognized in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979) constitutionally protects an accused against out-of-cour…
21-7775 In Re Crystal Maye 2022-05-04 Denied IFP agency-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process jurisdictional-challenge state-taxation tax-jurisdiction taxation trustee-residency trusts 1) whether agency proceedually followed notice requirement to service trustee, on Trust, or beneficiaries or whether Court over reach authority to tax…
21-7290 James L. Caudle v. Florida Florida 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence I. Whether the fight to due process of law has been denied by State courts allowing the State to evade addressing whether the right to confront the on…
21-7232 Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Are all U.S. prison officials required to provide all prisoners with healing spiritual medication for epilepsy, to prevent seizures that cause death? …
21-7100 Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-10 Denied IFP cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the Lower Courts erred by being forced to suppress the cell-site information under this Courts opinion in Carpenter? Whether the Lower Courts…
21-1092 Aaron Evan Perry v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment agency-law civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights fourth-amendment loss-prevention private-enforcement private-search public-interest state-action state-action-doctrine Whether, as private corporations and law enforce- ment agencies increasingly cooperate to investigate and prosecute retail crimes, the distinction b…
21-1065 Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement Whether decades of solitary confinement can, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment, as at least five circuits have held, or whether s…
21-6667 Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel 1. State courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that it was Bastian who had initiated a …
21-901 Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W. Y. and S. Y. v. Lamont Marzolf Eighth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived children's-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expansion law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-v-ohio Does the Fourth Amendment permit the search and seizure without probable cause of two compliant children, handcuffed and at gunpoint, even after the c…
21-6474 Kristie Leanne Sluder v. R. Patrick Bentancourt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP adoption-and-safe-families-act civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-statute ku-klux-klan-act liberty-interest notice-and-hearing standing statutory-interpretation 1. Did Macon County Department of Social Services Violate Conducted two weeks prior to my Foster daughter's placement in a group home? 2. Do foster P…
21-6198 Billy Dean Smith v. Lynnie Einerson, Acting Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections death-penalty disadvantaged-groups due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-review prisoner-rights standing state-prisoners state-procedure When litigating a State Criminal Convictions by way of a Federal Habeas Corpus, the Indigent State Prisoner & Matter What Race, Color or Creed, Who ha…
21-5675 Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing WAS PETITIONER NOT OWED THE MIMISTERIOL DUTY BU THE JS. DIBTRICT COURT OF A FOL AND FOIR HEARING OF TUE FIIED S ZZSY LOBEAS CRPUS? ACCORDING TO US. C…
21-5471 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Correct Care Recovery Solutions, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process liberty privileges-immunities pro-se-litigation property psychological-injury sexual-violent-predator state-sovereignty Does petitioner retain any rights, if so, what are they, and by what standard should they be judged? 2. Does the privileges and immunities clause imp…
21-208 Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy Before an employee may have been deemed to have waived the comprehensive rights, remedies and procedural protections prescribed in civil rights statut…
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit 1. Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure …
20-1221 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Erin Rubin Oklahoma 2021-03-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process exhibit-evidence gender judicial-procedure legitimate-purpose race race-profiling standing Is Exhibit G. Oklahoma Conversations a complete, consistent and coherent model of the facts of this case? Were those facts already cognizable to this …
20-620 Anthony Dwayne Williams, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process excise-tax federal-income-tax internal-revenue-code nontaxpayer nontaxpayer-status statutory-notice tax-assessment tax-liability taxpayer Should the United States Federal Income Tax be viewed in a different way (or perspective) when determining the assessment for the liability or penalty…
20-452 S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-08 Denied 14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights Is the decision to terminate parental rights Constitutional, where the court determined that adoption to an Amish home is in the best interest of the …
20-438 Tatiana Reiter, et al. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-10-06 Denied affordable-housing constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment marital-property property-rights takings tenancy-by-entirety As a result of a state court proceeding, the Township of East Hanover was granted a tenancy in common interest with Wyeczeslav Rayter, one of the defe…
20-432 S. O., et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-neglect civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process evidence fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment perjured-testimony perjury standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding…
20-153 Joe Blessett v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied 10th-amendment 42-usc-654 constitutional-protections contract contract-law interstate-contract private-law-liability separation-of-powers title-iv-d u.s.-congress 1. Did U.S. Congress intend for Title IV-D Cooperative-Federalism 42 U.S.C 654(3) contactors escape private law liabilities for violating their 10th a…
19-8768 Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-protections contract-law discovery-rights due-process government-legislation grounds-for-contracting judicial-procedure pro-se-litigant self-incrimination supreme-court 1) IS Contract Law Supreme? 2. Can a State Government legislate around Contractual obligations? 3. IS The Constitution of the United States the Supr…
19-8725 Jarvis Lee Glenn v. Michigan Michigan 2020-06-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections defendants-rights due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review search-and-seizure standing state-appeal DID THE STATE OF MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT DENY MR. GLENN THE EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION WHEN IT RUBBER-STAMPED MR. GLENN'…
19-1289 George Andrew Benavides v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process military-operations. torture treason civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process espionage-act espionage-act-1917 fourth-amendment military-operations military-privacy surveillance-rights torture treason The Espionage Act of 1917 was intended to prohibit interference with "Military " operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military…
19-8244 Frank Morgan v. Illinois Department of Corrections Illinois 2020-04-14 Denied IFP chaplain-duties civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections detainee-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment religious-services standing takings 1. Whothere the Illissis Dopnatnout ot COLNELTION'S HAS HUTHONITY TO CHANBO Qocumers Promalquted by THe IiGOOONA/ ASSEblY N01S 2y 21607 Body? THO DinO…
19-7560 Michael Swain v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-action circuit-court-conflict constitutional-protections due-process federal-law government-agency habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief parole parole-board DID THE JUDGES OF THE UNITED STATES ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL VIOLATE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS WHEN THEY AFFIRMED TH…
19-7500 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-31 Denied IFP constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment DOES THE OMISSION OF AN EXCEPTION TO THE FINALITY RULE IN MICHIGAN'S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT ("SORA") ALLOW THE PROSECUTION TO BUILD ITS CASE AG…
19-7161 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes …
19-6304 Martin Nava Lara v. Texas Texas 2019-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process federal-supremacy foreign-national miranda-rights self-incrimination state-law supremacy-clause treaty-rights 1. Whether State law supercedes the Supreme Law of the Land in regards to the rights, of a foreign national, established by the treaties between two…
19-5038 Donald Willems v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-protections contract-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Does an Appeal Waiver which is contained within a Plea Agreement toll the filing of a Notice to Appeal under the Sixth Amendments right to a speed…
18A1297 Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-protections criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule parole-revocation sixth-amendment supervised-release This case presents two important questions about the nature of supervised release revocation hearings. First, whether the exclusionary rule should app…
18-9055 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit…
18-8518 John Moses Burton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing QUESTION (1): When and how should the courts be bound to the presedent set by the high Court's opinion? QUESTION (2): Is it time to re-evaluate the l…
18-8255 David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings Private for profit prisons are allowed to deny Foia and State Open Records laws. (a.) State Courts rulings as to Open Records reqirements involving p…
18-7068 Nelson Figueroa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment The first question for the Court is, in light of the Guidelines' development into the de facto range of punishment in all but a very small percentage …
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution? Whether the Federal Cou…
18-6530 Edmund Zagorski v. Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP constitutional-protections constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-challenges due-process involuntary-waiver method-of-execution procedural-technicalities state-secrecy stewart-v-lagrand 1. Did Glossip v. Gross, 135 S.Ct. 2726 (2015), modify centuries-old jurisprudence prohibiting involuntary waiver of constitutional protections in the…
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts 1. Whether a claim made in th e habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invoke s the same constitutional protections, but labeled di…
18-334 Amor Medina Del Rosario, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-protections dismissal due-process fed-r-civ-p-60 federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigants public-policy rules-of-procedure service service-of-pleading Amor Medina Del Rosario and Elvie Canlas Del Rosario, the Petitioners, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted given the salient issue…
18-201 Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer California 2018-08-15 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs 1. Is not an appellate court required to appoint counsel to an indigent in a criminal case? if so, is not an indigent appellant entitled to the cost o…
18-5411 Subi Mehmeti v. Jofaz Transportation, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employee-rights employment employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act federal-laws fmla-rights health-condition medical-leave retaliation serious-health-condition workplace-retaliation Was there a legal obligation, company Jofaz Transportation, Inc.? Which is included according to the laws Employer "Family and Medical Leave Act of 1…