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25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant 1. Are States'! Vexatious-Litigant Law ("States' VL Law'), and specifically, California's VexatiousLitigant Law ("CA VL Law', Cal. Code Civ. Proc.? §§…
25A807 Dewayne Bulls v. FBI, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-12 Denied court-access defamation due-process executive-overreach first-amendment judicial-fabrication Question not identified.
25A791 Antonio Sauceda Reyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-08 Application court-access due-process first-amendment indigent-litigant legal-resources prisoner-access Question not identified.
25-6515 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Marcus Bach Armas, Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami Dade County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-appeal procedural-fairness Did the lower court wrongly dismiss Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a result of…
25-786 Julia Minkowski v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County California 2026-01-06 Pending ada-compliance constitutional-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process supremacy-clause 1. Does a systemic structural defect in due process in California courts eliminate court access, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and full parti…
25-6450 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Carlos Rosado, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-30 Denied IFP 14th-amendment court-access due-process indigency legal-proceedings procedural-rights Did the lower Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a resul…
25-6376 In Re Evelyn Thomas 2025-12-15 Denied IFP court-access docket-manipulation judicial-fraud judicial-integrity mandamus-writ pro-se-rights 1. Whether the Supreme Court should issue an extraordinary writ of mandamus where the petitioner has provided documented evidence of fraudulent docket…
25A689 Edward Allen Moore v. Gregory Hancock, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application certificate-of-appealability court-access eighth-circuit habeas-corpus prison-library pro-se-litigation Question not identified.
25-6338 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-standing Did the lower court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a …
25-630 Ruth Moton v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-12-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights court-access due-process election-claims impartial-adjudication 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by dis…
25-6229 Douglas A. Krusley v. Abigail Caudill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation court-access equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se-prisoner WHETHER PETITIONER QUALIFIES FOR EQUITABLE TOLLING DUE TO INABILITY TO ACCESS THE LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ON THE MERITS OF BEING ACTUALLY INNO…
25-600 John Paul Beaudoin, Sr. v. Charles D. Baker, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived case-dismissal civil-rights court-access due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing this case on standing and pleading standards? Whether meritorious cases filed in U.S. Courts are habituall…
25A543 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Granted civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access judicial-procedure pleading-requirements procedural-rules Question not identified.
25A518 John T. Hardee v. Jeff Vergakis, Individually and as Superintendent, Hampton Roads Regional Jail, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights court-access document-preparation legal-access prison-conditions pro-se-litigation Question not identified.
25-5755 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Granted IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-access judicial-proceedings venue-jurisdiction 1. Whether or Not the Eleventh (11th) Cir. C.O.A. Departed Far from the Accepted & Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, As to Call for an Exercise of…
25-5326 Geneva Langworthy v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-access disability-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-representation self-representation 1. Can a judge with a personal bias against a party, deny that individual access to the courts as a punishment for disrespectful language in her plead…
25-5290 Stacy L. Conner v. Ken Paxton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-intervention liberty-interest petition-review 1. ) Does our Constitution no longer protect/serve and umbrella each American Citizen equally? or at all?? 2. ) "After assessing all the Facts and su…
24-7484 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida 2025-06-25 Denied IFP court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standards pro-se-litigation (1) Do the courts in Florida deny: due process of law; equal protection under the law; and meaningful access to the courts;- to pro se, non-prisoner, …
24-7140 David C. Lettieri v. Lawrence Joseph Vilardo Second Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied IFP court-access habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mail-delivery procedural-relief title-28 1. What relief is possible for mail that isn't properly delivered? 2. Can a habeas be used for denial to access the courts? 3. How general is Title …
24-6293 Ohio, ex rel. John Paul Gomez v. Dan Favreau, Judge, et al. Ohio 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-bias vexatious-litigator This case raises critical questions regarding constitutional rights of parents in family and juvenile court proceedings, and the necessity for a reaso…
24-6124 Bradley Dorman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-access equal-protection first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act three-strike-rule younger-abstention 1). Is the application of the Prison litigation Reform Act ("PLRA "), "Three- Strike " Rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) to Petitioner 's prior dismissals un…
24A413 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete court-access institutional-constraints law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
24-5657 In Re Charles Kafeiti 2024-09-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-detention Can lower courts, delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus, and maintain Constitutional adherence's to such relief? 2) Can a Person break the law, when…
24-5358 James Andrew Metcalf v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-access covid-19-restrictions prisoners-rights pro-se-filing summary-judgment Are prisoners' Constitutional Rights to access the Courts violated when the institutional law library is closed in response to COVID-19 protocols, lea…
24-5352 Spencer Farwell v. Fountains at Tidwell Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-access due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant judicial-recommendation 1. Whether the District Court's adoption of the Magistrate Judge's recommendation, despite the absence of consent from either party, constitutes a vio…
24A169 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. California 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete civil-procedure court-access judicial-restriction legal-filing pro-se vexatious-litigant Question not identified.
24A168 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, et al. California 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete court-access judicial-review pro-se procedural-rights vexatious-litigant writ-of-mandate Question not identified.
24A152 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-access judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process vexatious-litigant Question not identified.
24A75 Vernell White v. California California 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete court-access legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
23-7753 William Lee Boyer v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-assistance legal-notice notice one-year-deadline prisoner-rights 1. ARE THE AVERAGE AMERICANS WHO BECOME CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS EDUCATED IN CRIMINAL LAW? 2. WHY ARE CONVICTED FELONS SUDDENLY REQUIRED TO LEARN THE COMP…
23-7334 William Charles Froemming v. City of West Allis, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP checks-and-balances civil-procedure court-access court-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct judicial-transparency legal-transparency perjury transcripts 1. Whether a court can deny access to recordings of proceedings, thereby eliminating any checks and balances for accuracy of the transcripts produce…
23-6905 Paul Harris v. Oran Schachter, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fair-trial interpreter interpreter-assistance legal-representation procedural-due-process standing The lower court at Lancaster, California would not allow petitioner's assistant to briefly speak to the court and explain that petitioner cannot read …
23-856 Urve Maggitti v. Victor J. Maggitti, Jr. Pennsylvania 2024-02-08 Denied access-to-courts administrative-process civil-rights collateral-damage constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-review legal-remedy remedy standing "If he has a right, and that right has been violated, do the laws of this country afford him a remedy? The very essence of civil liberty certainly con…
23-6607 Harry William Lott v. Ohio Job and Family Services Department Washington 2024-01-29 Denied IFP civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment legal-restrictions ohio-statute petition petition-rights standing vexatious-litigator 1 QUESTION: Does the state of Ohio have the ability to stop access to the court by using the Vexatious Litigator OH, Rev, cod, § 2323.52 or does the F…
23-6317 Vicky West, on Behalf of Laura West v. Garnet Hill Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Texas 2023-12-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process incapacitated-person indigent-representation legal-standing power-of-attorney pro-se pro-se-representation standing I. Whether a legal executed POA, Pro Se which is recognized by the judicial system can be used in a C Court of law to assist or represent indigent and…
23-6153 Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. v. Deborah S. Hunt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bivens bivens-action civil-rights court-access federal-counterpart-to-42-u.s.c.-§-1983 federal-remedy first-amendment habeas-corpus Isaiah S. Harris Sr.'s case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Where Harris highlights …
23A425 Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation Question not identified.
23A385 Wayne M. English v. Parcel Express, Inc. Texas 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete appellate-rights court-access judicial-review pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5077 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeal-of-right appellate-procedure appointed-counsel court-access due-process legal-representation ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation supplemental-brief In a first appeal of right, did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ("Ninth Circuit") violate defendant-appellant Ronald Boyajian's ("Peti…
22-7510 Noel Thomas v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis right-to-redress-grievances standing Whether the Trial Court erred as a matter of law by dismissing 1) Petitioner 's case based upon the Lower Court claims that Petitioner failed to state…
22-6937 Robert L. Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights court-access cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment pro-se-litigant redress Question & oue PoC. S A L't F-e-f-i'vne. 8 Cl vi TO CO Ur 4s LivtUcr IS? U-S. C, %ltis(9) U^kss Owe. Pco/5 In- FTU Due. Process V?oIcttimg Tke. 1st Av…
22-623 James William Hall v. G.M.S. Management Co., Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation standing Does a person have rights to a day in court to represent himself as a pro-se even when the appeal court lower United States District and the United St…
22-6050 Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct legal-filing procedural-due-process statutory-law supreme-court-precedents Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed: • to criminally "dismiss " the strikingly meritorious appeal that presents such questions as …
22-353 David M. Morgan v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2022-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) court-access first-amendment juror-names press-enterprise press-enterprise-i press-enterprise-ii qualified-right qualified-right-of-access voir-dire 1. Does the qualified right of access to voir dire under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, recognized in Press-Enterprise Co. v. …
22-5685 Tyrice Hill v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-access deadlines due-process inmate-legal-assistance legal-research meaningful-access prisoner-rights sixth-circuit 1. Is the Sixth Circuit Courts narrow interpretation of this Courts holding in Bounds wrong and denies Hill meaningful access to the Courts? 2. Is Th…
22-5501 In Re Eric Drake 2022-09-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation sanctions state-courts vexatious-litigant Under the First Amendment, every U.S. citizen has a right of speech (right to petition), and 42 USC §1981 (right to sue, give evidence, to be parties …
22-5366 William Michael Fields, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-access financial-affidavit financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis indigent-status poverty pro-se-litigation redress standing waiver-of-fees Question not identified.
21-7554 William Burke v. Rosa Childs, et al. Georgia 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge court-access due-process incarcerated-litigants necessary-state-interest procedural-fairness statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Preface : The first eight questions were presented to the Georgia Supreme Court in an application for writ of certiorari, which was denied without co…
21-7422 Edward Shane West-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access delegated-authority due-process government-authority in-forma-pauperis judicial-review standing tax 1. Where does Charles P. Rettig and his employee's that are on his staff get the Delegated Authority to question the Plaintiff Edward Shane West-El re…
21-1235 Robert Grundstein v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2022-03-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech standing statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigator 1. Is the Ohio Vexatious Litigator Statue, ORC 2323.52, Unconstitutional on the basis of vagueness and insufficient standards? Is it subject to abuse …
21-7045 Michael James Hoffman v. Arizona Department of Corrections Arizona 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process free-speech legal-mail mail-obstruction obstruction-of-mail prison-communication takings Did Anoc violate Petihonec's constitutional right tobe secuce inthis papers, dnd to du o-pcocess. of lan by comoving his documents te tne U 'S.Supcem …
21-7044 Marc Fishman v. Office of Court Administration New York State Courts, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-function americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split court-access disability-discrimination judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations This case is of great National and public importance as the holding of the Court of Appeals that the state family court is shiel ded from any claims b…
21-929 Marie Henry v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2021-12-23 Denied Response Waived bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech integrated-bar judicial-ethics keller-v-state-bar-of-california standing 1. Whether this Court's First Amendment speech and petitioning precedents on the fundamental constitutional right to access the court as expressed in …
21-894 Helen Gardner v. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, et al. New York 2021-12-17 Denied 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment section-1981 wrongful-death 1. Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York, namely, Judge Marsha L. Steinhardt, erred and abused its/her discretion by dismissing Petiti…
21-6359 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority 1. Whether magistrate judges exceed the scope of their statutory authority by issuing orders which have the practical effect of granting or refusing i…
21-6167 Harry Sharod James v. Roy Cooper, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure law-library legal-access prisoner-rights Does the Fundamental Court Constitution said fair access, to the Cards book think(?) access to a mean not, effective, fact adequate law than a (Accoun…
21-6025 Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson South Dakota 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se. Whether SDCL 15-6-24(a) (Fed.R.Civ.24(a)) would have automatically substitute…
21-5964 Robert L. Kelly v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-access due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-procedural-requirements Whether the Court should issue a grant of certiorari, vacatur, and remand to the Court of Appeals for issuance of a certificate of appealability when …
21-5954 David Lee Smith v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-proceedings takings The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual …
21-5662 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech 1. Whether or not the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights as published under provision outlined in the Bill of Rights departed …
21-5654 Michael Ortega, aka Salvador Amitcar Herrero Flores v. Oregon Oregon 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-access declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion poverty redress Question not identified.
21-5187 Patricia A. McColm v. Trinity County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access disability-accommodation disability-accommodations dismissal-with-prejudice due-process pre-filing-order pro-se 1. To avoid erroneous deprivation of constitutional rights, including right of access to the court; should this Court determine that pro se plaintiff …
20-7925 In Re Clement Mosseri 2021-05-04 Denied IFP court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias legal-representation pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel unbiased-tribunal 1) Is petitioner entitled to a fair hearing before an unbiased tribunal? 2) Does a poor person, Pro se litigant have a right to an attorney without c…
20-7814 Brandon Bowie v. Hamilton County Juvenile Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-access disability-discrimination due-process rehabilitation-act sovereign-immunity Did the Americans with Disability Act violate the sovereign immunity doctrine of the 11th Amendment when, based on Congress's 14th Amendment enforceme…
20-1353 Allen Glenn Thomas v. Tekle Girma Abebe, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process forgery fraud fraud-claims judicial-procedure property-deed 1) The Question Presented is an important one in the evolution by statutes and United States Constitution, lst;5th;14th Amendments,the Bill OF RIGHTS …
20-1086 Randall G. Stephens v. Dow Chemical Company Ohio 2021-02-08 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-access due-process impartial-jury judicial-discretion public-trial speedy-trial vexatious-litigator Whether Administrative Judge John J. Russo's, Journal Entry of April 15, 2019 and Judge Brendan J. Sheehan's, Journal Entry of February 26, 2020 denyi…
20-7046 Paul A. Bilzerian v. Securities Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-in-circumstances civil-procedure court-access equitable-relief judicial-discretion legal-standards motion-to-terminate permanent-injunction rule-65 standing 1. Whether a district court has the discretion to deny an unopposed motion to terminate a 20-year-old permanent injunction prohibiting access to any s…
20-6031 Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act J6 U)MM the. United Zhitf Court erf appeals , c/|ecu it teas to to denying feiito nee Access -h the court and kis dny vmotronS tfjQmsf Suck decision C…
20-5968 Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA DENIED PETITIONER ACCESS TO THE COURT PURSUANT ARTICLE 1, SECTION 21 OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION WHEN IT DECLINED…
20-5922 Julia Hook v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual …
20-5808 In Re Roger Liverman 2020-09-25 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure court-access docket-manipulation due-process fraud-upon-court mail-fraud mandamus-writ misprision-felony standing writ-of-mandamus Writ of Mandamus is the only "remedy " to correct the legal issues before the Court. Purpose of the Writ of Mandamus and Title 18 U.S.C. §4 Misprision…
20-5138 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access court-services disability-rights due-process procedural-safeguards retaliation standing Question One: Whether imposition of a daily 15 minute time restriction on physical access to the court building and use of court services is a constit…
20-5146 Douglas Harry Warenback v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts case-law certificate-of-appealability court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review Has the Circuit Court violated my first Amendment right to access the courts by failing to provide any evidence that my request for certificate of app…
20-12 Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect Americans from being having their liberty and property interests stripped from them unless they are afford…
19-8686 Beverley M. Harris v. The Bozzuto Group, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-access discovery due-process federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Whether the Court should resolve the following questions for which the Federal District Court, Newark New Jersey rejected/denied Petitioner's evidence…
19-8575 In Re Andrew Robinson 2020-06-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus jurisdiction-claims 1) . Does State and Federal law allow jurisdiction claims to be made at anytime? 2) . Does Sate and Federal law say jurisdiction claims go under habe…
19-1243 Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing 1. Did trial court deprive the petitioner of his constitutional rights when he denied petitioner total access to the court when he denied the petition…
19-8329 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights competency constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-procedure psychiatric-evaluation standing Is it Unconstitutional that no Article III District Court Judge has been assigned to this Case the First Circuit Court had no Jurisdiction with the 4 …
19-1237 LeRoy K. Wheeler v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access court-access due-process judicial-bias judicial-review legal-prejudice meritorious-claims prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner Do poor pro-se prisoners have a constitutional right to access the courts and to justice that will compel courts to rule on the merits of valid consti…
19-8293 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot…
19-8102 In Re Marquise White 2020-03-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights clerk-error court-access court-clerk-error district-court-power due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules state-statutory-rules statutory-rules Does a district court have the power to deny a Petitioner access to the court based on any such state statutory rules of evidence or even procedural r…
19-7959 John Tedesco v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process grievance-process injunctive-relief personal-involvement retaliation (A) WAS THE PLAINTIFF ENTITLED TO INJUNCTIVE RELIEF ? (B) WAS THE PLAINTIFF PROVIDED WITH DUE PROCESS ? (C) WAS THE PLAINTIFF ALLEGEDLY RETALIATED A…
19-7921 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. Superior Court of California, Monterey County Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-bias recusal vexatious-litigant void-judgment 1] Is it contrary to clearly established laws for to knowingly use Court Cases thatan Attorney were never Filed or Commenced, or Maintained to use as …
19-7702 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-retaliation court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation retaliation retaliation-claims standing 1. WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS AND U.S. DISTRICT COURT DECISIONS CONFLICT WITH THE FORMULATION DESCRIBING RETALIATION CLAIMS WITHIN THE U.S. CIR…
19-7537 Donald Alexander Spice v. Michigan Michigan 2020-02-05 Denied IFP appeal court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-defendants transcript transcript-access transcripts QUESTION I WHETHER ICR S.433(C) <3) IS UNCONSTTIOTTONAL AS IT VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION M© DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OP THE FOURTEENTH AMENDME3ST AND T…
19-857 GPI Distributors, Inc. v. Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Ohio 2020-01-09 Denied court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants judicial-review property-rights property-takings Do the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses prohibit states from imposing substantial financial burdens on indigent parties seeking judicial revie…
19-713 Paul E. Nunu v. Nancy Nunu Risk, et al. Texas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abridged Petitioner's First-Amendment-right-to-pe as applied access-to-courts citizens-united-v-fec contempt court-access first-amendment petition-clause prior-restraint pro-se vexatious-litigant 1. Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Te…
19-6829 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal When the court does not file the summons and compliant for a Petitioner that was granted to proceed in forma pauperis, dose it violate Petitioners due…
19-6563 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process federal-courts in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity ministerial-duty standing state-court Present Petitioner, an indigent state prisoner, brought suit for monetary damages against state court clerk under civil rights statute for alleged fai…
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation For Review of Mandamus For Recusal of the Judge and Public Defender both Maliciousley Prosecuting me because i sent a 200 Page Email to 40 Million Peo…
19-6057 Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing Question not identified.
19-206 In Re Melba L. Ford 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders I. When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explan…
19-5573 Monte Whitehead v. Greg Marcantel, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1997e civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection first-amendment grievance-process physical-injury prison-litigation-reform-act redress-of-grievances standing 1. Do Federal Statutes 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) & (e) abridge the First Amendment rights of prisoners by requiring them to meet certain standards before t…
19-5305 Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing First Question: Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the "fundamental miscarriage of justice " exception under the …
19-5364 In Re Carl A. Courtright, III 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions 1) Absent statutory authority nor provision in the Federal Rules, Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals clearly abuse its discretion when it ORDE…
19-5042 Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing IF THE ORDER FROM THE DISTRICT COURT DOCUMENT SEVENTEEN ALLOWED PETITIONER TO PROCEEDED WITH HIS COLORABLE CAUSE OF ACTION OF ACCESS TO THE COURT WHEN…
18-9753 Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing (1) Whether a federal district court's adoption of a Department of Corrections Administrative Regulation and implementing it in D.C.COLO. L. Civ. Rule…
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-21 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Question not identified.
18-8966 Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant Petitioner is a citizen of the United States of America. Pursuant to the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, he has rights to bring lawsuits, de…
18-1310 Charmaine Clement v. Thomas Durban, et al. New York 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts burden-on-access civil-procedure constitutional-law court-access discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights non-resident-discrimination privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause residency-requirements standard-of-review state-courts Whether Article 85 is consistent with the Privileges and Immunities Clause despite its discrimination against nonresidents of New York and the materia…
18-1314 Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law 1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise its mandatory diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 by refusing to make an "Erie guess" whether…
18-8790 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2019-04-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access judicial-power mandamus mandate recall-mandate Is mandamus the appropriate remedy into a circuit court to compel its clerk to accept, file, and submit a motion to recall that court's prior mandate?…
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing First Amen…
18-8157 James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE COURTS BEING DENED WHEN A FRAUD ON A STATE COURT DECISION IS USED TO PROVE UNTIMELINESS WHEN FEDERAL COURTS…
18-1087 Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se 1. Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could f…
18-7328 Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings Question not identified.
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) whereby impeding the timely filing of his pe…
18-6523 Renee D. Bell v. Orlando Health, Inc., dba Winnie Palmer Hospital Florida 2018-10-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-procedure-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection pre-trial-conference procedural-due-process procedural-rights right-to-redress substantive-rights 1. Whether dismissal base on fail to meet a pre-trial conference is a drastic action, and where court access is barred prior to the dismissal that the…
18-412 Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. Virginia 2018-10-02 Denied access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appal, without reaching the merits of the case, violates the Petitioner's fundament…
18-6043 Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-09-19 Denied IFP access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims Names v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520, 92 S. -Ct. 594, 30 L. Ed. 2d 652 (1972), allows a court unfettered authority to construe pro se prisoner claims. S…
18-5721 Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling To get tolling of the one-year deadline for filing a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a state prisoner must prove, inter alia, that he h…
18-239 Arick Justin Rinaldo v. Bryan Mahan, et al. Colorado 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-supreme-court-rules court-access due-process equal-protection filing-system pro-se pro-se-litigant structural-error DID THE DEPRIVATION OF ACCESS TO COLORADO'S ICCES FILING SYSTEM (Integrated Colorado Court E-File System) FOR PRO SE LITIGANTS CAUSE REVERSIBLE STRUCT…
18-5451 Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal 1. May the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sua sponte dismisses a Plaintiff's Appeal for not paying the filing fees, where documentation clearly showed…
18-5024 William Robert Dixon v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies illegal-sentencing jurisdiction standing 1} Does violation of right to access the court measure constitutional violation? [Alone before review.] 2} If a violation to access the court takes p…