ex-parte-communication
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1043 | In Re Michael E. Tindall | 2026-03-04 | Pending | appellate-procedure ex-parte-communication judicial-ethics mandamus prejudicial-error vacatur-and-reassignment | Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit where an appellate panel: 1. Introduced a newly d… | ||
| 25-6854 | Lonny Slade Glover v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2026-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Whether an unrecorded ex-parte communication between a trial judge and a deadlocked jury where the physical note of the communication was subsequen… |
| 25A869 | Robyn Abraham v. Abby Leigh, as Executrix of the Estate of Mitch Leigh | Second Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Denied | due-process ex-parte-communication hobbs-act judicial-bias political-lobbying settlement-funds | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6667 | Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment neutral-arbiter probation-revocation | Does a district court violate the Fifth Amendment's neutral-and-detached-arbiter requirement, as recognized in Morrissey, when it engages in ex parte … |
| 25A808 | In Re Esaias Joseph Menasi | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Denied | due-process evidence-tampering ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct supreme-court witness-intimidation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5231 | Joseph-Allen Davis v. OM SRP, LLC | Ohio | 2025-07-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation disciplinary-counsel due-process ex-parte-communication judicial-ethics recusal-standard | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court judge, previously disciplined for ex parte communication, en… |
| 25-5079 | Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Denied | IFP | counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment | 1. Should a writ of habeas corpus issue when a bailiff reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial by directing it to continue deliberating until it rea… |
| 24-7376 | Yu Hin Chan v. Honorable Joy F. Campanelli, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | IFP | court-documents due-process ex-parte-communication immunity legal-ethics official-act | 1. Is Joy I . Campanelli 's behavior of forging Court documents an official act? 2. Is Joy F. Campanelli 's repeated ex parte communication with Peti… |
| 24-1069 | In Re Symon Mandawala | 2025-04-10 | Denied | due-process ex-parte-communication federal-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit summary-judgment witness-testimony | Whether writ of mandumus should issue direct to both the Appeals and district court to uphold Article IV of the US constitution "full faith and credit… | ||
| 24-6221 | Adaeze Nwosu v. Karla Smith, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination | 1. Whether it is legal and/or constitutional for sitting judges to affirm illegal and unconstitutional ex-parte discussions of sitting judges with a w… |
| 23-1152 | Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii | Whether if I didn't give consent for my case to be conducted by the magistrate Judge Kelly Pate. Rule 73. 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). A record must be made of… |
| 23-599 | Miriam Gladden v. Rayna Woodford, et al. | Maryland | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure defective-motion due-process ex-parte-communication fundamental-rights judicial-bias pro-se standing | 1. Whether the Appellate Court's failure to acknowledge the plain error of Woodfords bringing a defective and improper motion and that the lower court… |
| 22-7719 | Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. | Nebraska | 2023-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing | Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve… |
| 22-5800 | Collin Kaiser v. Sue Krecko, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-housing ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice-insurance obstruction-of-justice public-corruption | The questions of public corruption within the Eastern District of New York Central Islip Federal Courthouse, judicial misconduct performed by both Jud… |
| 22-147 | Reshawn Armstrong v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-facts prima-facie-case protected-class similar-situated summary-judgment supervisor-liability | Whether a Judge committed ex parte communication when he accepted information from an unnamed person other then the Plaintiff and Defendant's Counsel,… |
| 21-7993 | Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing | No sworn affidavit from a victim, no evidence of a crime, no 2 witnesses to a crime. 4th amendment is clear. NO IMMUNITY FRCP RULE 12 A (i) states a p… |
| 21-7348 | Andrew Prescott v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District | Illinois | 2022-03-11 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-parte-communication fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal self-representation sixth-amendment | Do the 6th Amendment; Section 1 and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; 28 U.S. Code § 1654, and state laws or provisions, grant individuals not only the… |
| 21-7290 | James L. Caudle v. Florida | Florida | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence | I. Whether the fight to due process of law has been denied by State courts allowing the State to evade addressing whether the right to confront the on… |
| 21-723 | Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law | Under the United States Constitution, especially the 14th Amendment, "due process of law" and "equal protection of the laws", the 1st Amendment, free … |
| 20-1535 | Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson | First Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act | 1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple… |
| 20-7661 | Rodney Russell v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error | I. Whether it viola ted due proc ess for the distric t court to a ppoint the Federal Defender not only to re present a juror for whom a legitim ate cl… |
| 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… |
| 20-516 | D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo | Pennsylvania | 2020-10-20 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication family-court judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction sua-sponte | 1. Has the Pennsylvania Court System violated the constitutional rights of the Appellant, D'Ann McCoy, through communication ex-parte in a matter wit… | |
| 20-5659 | Gabriel M. Robles v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication extraordinary-writ mandamus-petition standing veterans-benefits | Did the fact that a response from the Respondent was not required in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims cause the court to assume the Petitioner… |
| 19-1431 | David E. Olson, et al. v. Mark O'Brien, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-law bias due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fourteenth-amendment notice-and-hearing state-agency | Whether the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits biased, ex parte communications between state agency officials which reverse an adm… |
| 19-773 | Ann Merlino, et al. v. Cara Buonincontri | New York | 2019-12-17 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-investigation hearing investigation judicial-conduct state-court state-court-judge | Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United States Constitution, 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment for a State Court Judge to conduct a … | |
| 19-5468 | Tara Glass v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fair-trial judicial-complaint judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct liberty-interest liberty-interests right-to-marry supervised-release | This case presents a fascinating issue of first impression at the intersection of constitutional due process and the confidential judicial complaint r… |
| 19-5223 | Bobby Minnis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-modification state-sentencing | Whether a federal district judge can make the internally contradictory oral pronouncement that a federal sentence is to be served concurrent with one … |
| 18-8750 | Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal | Must a judge who had a improper ex parte communication with the prosecuting team off-docket, with no in camera review, and directed the prosecuting to… |
| 18-1091 | Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. | Third Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions | Whether the 3rd Circuit Appeals Court erred in upholding the decision of Federal District Court to dismiss Petitioner One employment discrimination La… |
| 18-7903 | Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure | Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error by continuously granting the Attorn… |