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25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25-6029 Keith Baldwin, Jr. v. Jamey Fletcher, Captain, Maiden Police Department Fourth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses civil-rights constitutional-violations discovery-rights rule-12b6 section-1983 1. Discovery Rights in § 1983 Cases: Whether federal district courts must allow § 1983 plaintiffs reasonable discovery to develop facts regarding defe…
25-5074 Michael Horton v. Captain Gilchrist, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discovery-rights federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigant section-1983 summary-judgment This Court's precedent is clear that federal courts "should generally not depart from the usual practice under the Federal Rules on the basis of perce…
24-7176 Miriam Pope v. Chetan Patel, fka Hitesh Patel Alabama 2025-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law discovery-rights due-process immigration-status undocumented-persons 1. Does a statutory rule of civil procedure. Whether- state of federal allowing for a discovery period, wherein the defendant is denied same, violate …
24-6297 Donald Sherman v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability discovery-rights due-process factual-findings ninth-circuit state-appellate-courts 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to address Sherman's argument that the state appellate courts factual findings made without notice, an opportu…
24A664 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete civil-procedure constitutional-claims discovery-rights discrimination due-process rule-12b6 Question not identified.
24-5096 Steven C. Levi v. Anchorage School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights dismissal due-process interrogatories judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Can a case be dismissed without allowing Discovery and Interrogators?
23-1178 First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion I. Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment —other than on purely legal grounds — against a party when the court has not allowed that party to…
23-6194 Christopher Andrew Canales v. Nathan Hoffman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-discovery voluntariness-of-plea THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT HAS NOT, BUT SHOULD BE, SETTLED BY THIS COURT, AS TO: (1) WHE…
23-426 Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment 1. Whether, in light of the procedural posture of this case, the Court should convert Respondents' Motion for Partial Judgment on the Pleadings to a M…
23A323 Robert Perkel, et al. v. Jane (Canella) Perkel, et al. New Jersey 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete discovery-rights due-process-clause equal-protection notice-and-hearing probate-procedure will-contest Question not identified.
22-7133 Ryan Stancu v. Southern Methodist University Texas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery discovery-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment 1. Did the lower courts and the Supreme Court of Texas usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's rig…
22-6351 Shane Webster Upchurch v. Wastequip, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights jurisdiction-issue pro-se pro-se-plaintiff retaliatory-discharge summary-judgment workers-compensation 1. Whether it was error to grant summary judgment to the defendant where the pro se plaintiff was not given any opportunity to engage in discovery. 2…
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error 1.) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS; TO INCLUDE HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, HIS RIGHT TO DU…
21-1590 Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se The District Court disallowed Austin discovery of an undisclosed witness based on the premise that she would be unable to conduct discovery in a prope…
21-1518 BYD Company Ltd. v. Vice Media LLC Second Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied actual-malice defamation discovery-rights first-amendment iqbal pleading-standard public-figure twombly New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), St. Amant v. Thompson, 390 U.S. 727 (1968), and Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton, …
20-8214 Warren D. Tisdale v. CASA Partners V, L.P. The Park at Winterset, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process interrogatories jury-trial magistrate-referral settlement sixth-amendment I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was violated when the U.S. District Court Judge referred the case to a Magistrate for se…
20-6304 Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information classified-information-procedures-act criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion national-security right-to-present-defense security-clearances 1. Where the plain text of 18 U.S.C. app. 3 §4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) does not require that any motion be determined ex p…
20-5525 Larry R. Bailey v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion discovery-rights due-process federal-lands fee-authority fees judicial-procedure public-lands public-records standing (Due to cognitive issues from a previous stroke lam addressing questions in order that they appear in pleadings to limit confusion on my behalf) Whe…
20-29 Sara Discepolo v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rights foia-review freedom-of-information-act judicial-presumption national-security presumption-of-good-faith summary-judgment In all Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA ") cases, the federal courts apply a deferential "presumption of good faith " to agency declarations and fo…
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…
19-1206 Paul Boland, as Heir of the Estate of Dixie L. Boland, et al. v. Chris Boland, et al. Montana 2020-04-10 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process estate-dispute hearing probate probate-law standing 1) Were Petitioners denied due process of the law when their motion in probate court to turn over assets belonging to their father's estate was denied…
19-8156 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied IFP 7th-amendment age-discrimination civil-rights discovery-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial seventh-amendment standing 1. Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a j…
19-8143 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. Brevard County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP ad-valorem-tax civil-rights constitutional-challenge discovery discovery-rights due-process procedural-requirements property-rights quiet-title standing tax tax-authority whether appellees has authority without a statute law by Congress, may impose tax for private household good personal effect non-commercial? whether …
19-886 Israel K. Negash, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure discovery-rights due-process government-data judicial-review regulatory-enforcement snap-benefits standing statistical-analysis summary-judgment In 2016, a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailer was accused by the United States Department of Agriculture of trafficking in SNAP…
19-7196 Mark D. Zimmerman v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process incarceration judicial-discretion legal-resources pro-se standing state-courts supervisory-power its Supervisory Power over the lower State Court's sanctining of a departure from the aicepted ard usual course of judicial proceedings in regards to …
19-6847 Lawrence Keith Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discovery-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,standing,civil-procedure, equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing witness-testimony Does any court that does not follow the well established law violate an individuals Constitutional rights, by simply denying without stating the reaso…
19-235 Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing 1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti…
19-5393 Joanna M. Eiermann v. Lawrence R. Bowers, et al. First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP 9th-amendment civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process inheritance inheritance-dispute judicial-review ninth-amendment remains standing trust trust-litigation 1. Is my 9th amendment right being violated, by the Federal Appeals court by ignoring the fact that the State Court Justice, Richard G Stearns dismiss…
18-1457 Joseph Allen May v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7431 civil-rights discovery discovery-denial-authority discovery-rights due-process federal-courts irs irs-disclosure perpetrator-liability standing tax-law taxpayer-information title-26 Under Title 26 § 7431, under what authority do the Federal Courts deny Discovery, when the IRS and IRS officers have all of the documents and the Unit…
18-1238 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Progressive Credit Union, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consolidation contempt court-compel-discovery court-procedure discovery discovery-rights discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression judicial-bias judicial-misconduct res-judicata share-certificate-dispute standing stock-share-dispute In Case Index number CV-030309-13/QU, Petitioner had submitted letter from President of Cornmunicar Inc. Pasquale Freni, to David Kosher, General coun…
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d…
18-5981 Elizabeth Pastor v. Partnership for Children's Rights New York 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-78-proceeding civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process employer-threshold employment employment-discrimination judicial-transfer standing statutory-interpretation title-vii Should the Supreme Court have transferred the Article 78 to the Appellate Division without a hearing? Should the lower court have denied full discove…
18-5252 Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence 1. When, if ever, can a petitioner be denied the discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of counsel for respondent's spoliation of potentially …
25A908 Yehonatan Kapach v. New Hampshire New Hampshire Application default-judgment discovery-rights due-process meaningful-access out-of-state-defendant remote-participation Question not identified.