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25-6713 Nebraska, ex rel. Isaac D. Koch v. District Court of Nebraska, Platte County Nebraska 2026-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law contract-clause dissolution-statute freedom-of-conscience remedy void-writ What harm must a void writ burden one with before a remedy obtains? Whether unilateral dissolution statutes may be held repugnant to the contract cla…
25-6687 Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-02-02 Denied IFP contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric…
25-315 Silas Salyers, aka Silas Salyer v. Clifford B. Walker, Personal Representative of the Estate of Evelyn Walker Michigan 2025-09-17 Denied Response Waived contract-clause deed-ownership due-process equal-protection property-rights trespass-damages I. Did the State of Michigan by its judiciary violate Petitioner's due process and equal protection rights by ruling contrary to the binding rule of l…
25-140 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery —contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S.…
25-38 Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts 1. Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the part…
24-6934 Frederick Pina v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-04-07 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights contract-clause default-judgment due-process judicial-fraud 1. Whether the California Supreme Court's failure to enforce a fully executed contract—formed through mutual assent and valid consideration—violates t…
23-1220 Building and Realty Institute of Westchester and Putnam Counties, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) contract-clause due-process housing-stability investment-expectations market-value property-rights rent-control takings takings-clause tenant-protection Whether the changes made by the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA) effect physical takings, and as applied takings, and violate both …
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
23-589 Oxana N. Parikh, et al. v. Tina Parikh-Smith, et al. Maryland 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived contract-clause due-process equal-protection inheritance-law orphans-court property-interest property-rights racial-animus statutory-law This case presents a question more egregious than Hodel v. Irving, 481 U.S. 704 (1987); whether the Maryland Orphans' Court for Montgomery County viol…
23-383 Karen C. Yeh Ho v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause contracts due-process equal-protection foreclosure mortgage-modification takings 1. Whether Respondent voided and denial of perma nent streamline mortgage modification agreement because Petitioner 's husband won 't sign the per m…
22-948 Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County Medical Care Facility, et al. Michigan 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law contract-clause due-process earned-compensation equal-protection paid-time-off tax-evasion wage-and-hour I. Did the Michigan State Administrative Agency Wage and Hour Division ("WHD"), as upheld by the Michigan Supreme Court, violate the U.S. Constitution…
22-6529 Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. Delaware 2023-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy commerce-clause compact-clause constitutional-law contract-clause corporate-dissolution interstate-commerce standing state-court-jurisdiction The nation is conceived and operated by State-chartered legal entities ("corporations" for short), some for profit and some for charitable purposes. N…
22-476 Fraternal Order of Police, Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, D.C. Police Union v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-law contract-clause due-process impairment-of-contract police police-discipline takings The Contract Clause of the United States Constitution prohibits any State, including the District of Columbia, from passing a law that substantially i…
22-5948 Brett W. Cormier v. Florida Florida 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE ART. I, SECT. 10 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN IT IMPAIRED THE OBLIGATION OF PETITIONER'S CONTRACTS BY CHARG…
21-1084 Janet Heltzel, et al. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. Virginia 2022-02-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived contract-clause due-process executive-power monument monument-preservation property-rights public-opinion restrictive-covenant takings The Commonwealth of Virginia agreed in 1890 to accept a circle of land in the City of Richmond and a monument to Robert E. Lee from the Lee Monument A…
21-7043 Ada Maria Benson v. Allstate Insurance Co. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial interlocutory-decision procedural-due-process public-confidence standing Does justification exist by the United States District Court and the Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit to deny the petitioner the right of being heard an…
21-999 Joe Blessett v. Texas Office of the Attorney General, Galveston County Child Support Enforcement Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights clearfield-trust-doctrine commerce-clause contract-clause cooperate-federalism due-process sovereign-immunity state-agency title-iv-d Does the State Title IV-D Agency operate as a business-to-business enterprise for a profit with the United States under Cooperate Federalism to be sub…
21-809 Alexander Gallo v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-12-01 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights contract-clause due-process eviction-moratorium property-rights standing strict-scrutiny takings takings-clause In 2020, several states and municipalities imposed uncompensated "eviction ban" moratoria. This petition concerns the District of Columbia's municipal…
21-801 Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2021-11-30 Denied civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code Do animal "adoption " laws conflict with the Constitution 's Contract Clause and the general principles of contracting? 2. Did the court flout this…
21-289 Randall Winslow v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection legal-redress redress right-to-contract standing state-regulation Whether Pennsylvania Certificate of Merit Pa.Code Rule 1042.3 comports with EQUAL JUSTICE that the outside of your building proudly displays. Whether…
20-1466 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, Inc., et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause fiscal-crisis heightened-scrutiny legislative-impairment public-contract reasonableness-and-necessity 1. Whether placing the burden of proof on the plaintiffs regarding the reasonableness and necessity of a legislation that impaired a public contract c…
20-1145 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-22 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction 1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the …
20-1112 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis 1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the …
20-6160 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing 1) Are there other issues? 2) Does the exhaustion requirement apply
20-560 Brian Sullivan, et al. v. Nassau County Interim Finance Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause emergency-measure government-contracts less-deferential-standard reasonable-and-necessary state-impairment wage-freeze In 2011, a New York State-created oversight authority, the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority ("NIFA"), along with Nassau County (the "County"), …
19-8750 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. SAP America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied IFP constitution-of-the-united-states constitutional-impairment contract-clause due-process equal-protection impairment-of-contract judicial-malfeasance patent-contract patent-contract-grant stare-decisis 1. Whether the inventor 's government-issued patent contract grant is protected by the Constitution of the United States. If so, 2. Whether the inve…
19-8707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the USPTO/PTAB (the "Agency ") and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution mandated by this Court 1 against repudi…
19-1314 Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille New Hampshire 2020-05-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights 1. Whether in regards to a contract for rental housing between a long-term resident of an extended-stay hotel property and the extended stay hotel pro…
19-1308 Bernard Morello, et al. v. Seaway Crude Pipeline Company, LLC Texas 2020-05-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limitations contract contract-circumvention contract-clause due-process eminent-domain highest-and-best-use judicial-authority judicial-review just-compensation legislative-limitations property-rights takings Whether eminent domain can be used to as mere pretext to rewrite the parties' own prior bargains, or otherwise circumvent existing obligations in a pr…
19-8059 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause 1. Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judic…
19-8029 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings 1. Whether it is Sedition that Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty…
19-7905 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason 1. Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case specif…
19-6991 Lei Ke v. Drexel University Pennsylvania 2019-12-18 Denied IFP contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata 1. Asa legal doctrine, the dual proceedings waiver is an important component of due process and equal protection of the laws and is there to ward off…
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is THERE A "CONFLIT BF LAW" WHEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA MADE LAWS THAT UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VIOLATED THE STATUTORY PROHIBITIONS SET-FORTH IN ARTICLE 1 …
18-9226 Anne A. Sears v. Lucas D. Bottorff, et al. Tennessee 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-checks contract-clause due-process elderly-protection judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-police-power I. What is the minimum level of judicial checks and balances constitutionally required of the judiciary and each judge when reviewing litigation invol…
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Violate Peritioner's Substantive Due $43 when it Convicted and Resentenced Htim For a Non-Existent Codified or Backed By …
18-8188 Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution WHETHER THE PLEA AGREEMENT AFFIRMED BY THE LOWER TRIBUNAL VIOLATED THE CONTRACT AND DUE PROCESS CLAUSES OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
18-198 Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-regulations cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining contract-clause due-process grievance-process judicial-bias judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1789 racial-animus standing taylor-law Issue: The issue is not Fed. Rul. of Civ. Pro. 8(a); the issue is the plaintiff was not allowed to be the "master of the complaint" and his rights und…