| 25-681 |
Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality |
This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa… |
| 25A197 |
Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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civil-procedure disqualification fraud-on-court judgment-renewal judicial-bias rule-60 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6993 |
Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias |
1. Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the p… |
| 23-1241 |
Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice disqualification due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding fifth-amendment prosecution-witness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
I. Does it deny a defendant due process of law to disqualify trial counsel based on a purported conflict of interest following the ex parte considerat… |
| 23-719 |
Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. |
Colorado |
2024-01-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (78) |
14th-amendment ballot-access constitutional-interpretation disqualification election-law insurrection insurrection-clause oath-of-office presidential-election presidential-eligibility state-election-law |
Did the Colorado Supreme Court err in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot? |
| 23-95 |
Philip Esformes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
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attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure disqualification forfeiture judicial-fact-finding prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
While investigating petitioner for alleged health-care fraud, federal prosecutors seized hundreds of petitioner's attorney-client privileged documents… |
| 22-6065 |
Samirkumar J. Shah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure disqualification disqualification-motion due-process evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct |
The situation in this case raises the question of whether the Petitioner, Samirkumar Shah, a practicing cardiologist whose former attorney, Tina Mille… |
| 22-6070 |
Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
New York |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation |
1. Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct,… |
| 22-5172 |
Glen Torres v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-counsel constitutional-right counsel-of-choice disqualification indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-representation |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to choose one's attorney apply to private and pro bono co-counsel? |
| 21-1374 |
Floyd Chodosh, et al. v. John Saunders, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-455 civil-procedure disqualification due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process rooker-feldman |
A disqualified state court judge called in from vacation and delayed a temporary restraining order, then "self-requalified" himself back on to the cas… |
| 21-230 |
William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 21-105 |
Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
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compelled-commerce compelled-consent disqualification due-process illegal-seizure judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution municipal-court pro-se-litigation transfer-of-venue venue-transfer |
1. Was it abusive to deny that extension?
2. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional," as applied?
3. Did Respondents illegally seize Taylor's va… |
| 20-8329 |
Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition |
WAS ROBINSON DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O… |
| 20-1348 |
True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification |
(1) Whether 28 U.S.C. §455 disqualifies a federal court judge for lack of impartiality to a reasonable observer in a federal civil rights and fraud ac… |
| 20-1356 |
Eduardo Lopez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
|
appellate-rights conflict-of-interest counsel-disqualification criminal-procedure disqualification guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-defect wheat-v-united-states |
1. Following Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798
(2018), does a criminal defendant's guilty plea result in the automatic waiver of his right to app… |
| 20-1320 |
Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
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administrative-judge administrative-jurisdiction disqualification due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure jurisdiction ohio-revised-code opportunity-to-be-heard state-court-review unconstitutional |
1-Can a case proceed if the petitioner argues that the administrative judge, appointing judges to the petitioner's case, lacked jurisdiction to do so … |
| 20-524 |
Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal |
1. Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process by failing to rule on requests for recusal and disqualification, and failure to prov… |
| 19-7929 |
Caryn Hall Yost-Rudge v. A to Z Properties, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-misconduct city-attorney city-commission city-government civil-procedure disqualification due-process fraud legal-ethics municipal-fraud |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause is made invalid by denying disqualification of an opposing attorney whom caused great harm as city vice-mayor yet co… |
| 19-7885 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a… |
| 19-7134 |
Jessie Carter v. Department of Agriculture |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-law administrative-law-judge arkansas-dept-of-human-services civil-rights declaration disqualification due-process federal-regulations national-disqualified-list usda usda-program usda-regulations |
What is the 'proper' interpretation of CFR 7 226.6 (c) (v). (copy enclosed)
This question arises in direct relation to circumstances in the case.
Encl… |
| 19-5103 |
Kenton G. Findlay v. Star Lakes Association, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights disqualification due-process foreclosure foreclosure-appeal impartiality judicial-impartiality service-of-process |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DC A") violated the due process protection of the 5th … |
| 18-9717 |
Kenton G. Findlay v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. |
Florida |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-violation disqualification due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fraud fraud-on-court impartiality judicial-impartiality |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a… |
| 18-7440 |
Christopher Whitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing |
Question One
The Constitution guarantees a person the effective assistance of counsel for a first appeal of right. Effective counsel necessarily cont… |
| 18-6560 |
Wendell Weaver v. Walter Nicholson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure disqualification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-alternatives right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-court wheat-v-united-states |
Does Wheat v. United States, 486 U.S. 153 (1988) clearly establish that trial courts must consider reasonable alternatives before disqualifying a crim… |
| 18-375 |
Daniel H. Alexander v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC |
Florida |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment disqualification due-process evidence-fraud foreclosure fraud judicial-review mortgage-foreclosure national-mortgage-settlement |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protections of the 5th … |
| 18-5765 |
DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata |
ON JANUARY 10, 2018 THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DENIED PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR EN BANC REHEARING STATING THAT; THE JUSTICES DI… |
| 18-187 |
Keith A. Simpson v. The Bank of New York Mellon |
Florida |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
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bank-fraud civil-rights constitutional-rights disqualification due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement perjury standing |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendment… |