contempt-of-court
16 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6557 | David Calhoun v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing | I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re… |
| 24-6418 | Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-authority contempt-of-court due-process hearing-rights judicial-discretion | 0. City and advocate a direct Criminal Contempt, and take it delays pursuant to Habeas? 1. Should a State Court State court be required to give writt… |
| 23-1295 | Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner | Louisiana | 2024-06-12 | Denied | child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence | 1) Did the suspension of Ms. Zaorski's fixed jail sentence and fine, conditioned on terms wholly unrelated to the judgment which she was convicted of … | |
| 22-7745 | James William Walker v. Montana | Montana | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court coram-nobis due-process judicial-branch motion-for-relief supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-morgan | Did the Judicial Branch of Montana in denying Petitioner the opportunity for relief under Precedent Holding United States v. Morgan, 346 US 502, (19… |
| 22-6989 | In Re Irina Collier | 2023-03-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights contempt-of-court detention due-process standing | Question not identified. | |
| 22-5085 | Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. L. Naganda, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights conjugal-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court family-court-procedure judicial-fraud judicial-immunity obstruction-of-justice parental-rights | a) Did USCA 3rd circuit failed to vacate the Dist Court's Sua Sponte dismissal of Complaint/ 1st Amended complaint (FAC) / Second Amended Complaint (S… |
| 21-1252 | Maria Herta v. John McBride, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court driver-license driver's-license due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Harassed for years, challenging subject matter jurisdiction was relevant; causation of breach of duty, tort, and trespassing without subject matter ju… |
| 21-712 | Derrick Tyrone Jenkins v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | clear-and-present-danger contempt contempt-of-court due-process extrajudicial-speech first-amendment free-speech habeas-review judicial-criticism political-speech | Does the clear and present danger standard apply in contempt proceedings brought to sanction a litigant's extrajudicial criticism of an elected judge … |
| 21-230 | William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation | Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg… | |
| 20-1495 | Karen V. McIntyre v. Kevin L. McIntyre, et al. | Maryland | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Response Waived | contempt-of-court fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion state-law trust-accounting trustee-obligations | Should a state court be allowed to recognize a trust accounting produced by the trustee of an inter vivos trust as meeting the requirements of state l… |
| 20-944 | Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark | Tennessee | 2021-01-13 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition | 1. Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents ap… | |
| 20-565 | George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Di… | |
| 20-76 | Ghassan Hage v. Fida Mhanna | California | 2020-07-27 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure contempt-of-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure | (l) Where Judge of the Superior Court violated a Court Order issued by a previous Judge (Appendix "D" p. 23a), (2) where Lawyer from State Bar of Cali… | |
| 19-1235 | Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-04-20 | Denied | constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition | The petitioner, Brian Hampton Clark ("Brian Clark") seeks reversal of a conviction of contempt of court entered by the Honorable David V. Williams, ch… | |
| 19-6227 | In Re Steven Talbert Williams | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights contempt-of-court dismissal due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis sanctions standing | 1. 28 USC 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) and 18 U.S.C. §402 (dismissal for "frivolous[ness]," U.S. Const. Am. 6, 10): a. Whether the "ORDER" (Appendix A, dated Marc… | |
| 18-1376 | Fernando Gabriel Irazu v. Margarita O. | Connecticut | 2019-05-02 | Denied | abuse-of-process constitutional-law contempt-of-court divorce-judgment due-process enforcement-of-us-judgments equal-protection exequatur-proceedings international-law international-private-law jurisdictional-dispute parental-rights unequal-treatment-under-law | Did the lower court infringe the Petitioner's parental rights and due process by ignoring the Court's unanimous precedent, in re, Chafin v. Chafin, as… |