excusable-neglect

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25-6706 Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP bankruptcy-appeal equitable-review excusable-neglect fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-deadline pioneer-standard 1. Whether bankruptcy-appeal deadlines under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8002(d) are jurisdictional or subject to equitable excusable-neglect review consistent …
25A762 Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon Third Circuit 2025-12-31 Application due-process excusable-neglect notice-of-appeal pro-se property-rights rule-60 Question not identified.
25-78 Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted this Court's opinion in Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick…
24A612 Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied certiorari excusable-neglect extension-of-time federal-procedure pro-se supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24A398 Ralph Berry v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure en-banc excusable-neglect legal-resources petition-for-rehearing pro-se Question not identified.
24-378 Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-procedure excusable-neglect pioneer-factors qualified-immunity summary-judgment Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a moving party is allowed an out-of-time filing if they establish excusable neglect. Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1)(B…
24A165 Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules pioneer-factors summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-6717 Steve Van Horne v. Robert Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure haines-v-kerner legal-technicalities timeliness united-states-v-lee 1. Do the circumstances surrounding Petitioner, Steve Van Home's filing of a late appeal from the United States District Court of the Northern Distric…
23-806 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-cause intervening-circumstances judicial-discretion pioneer-investment-services 1. Whether in overview of the textual language set forth in Fed. R. App. P 4(a)(5)(A) (ii) did Congress afford differing terms allowing the lower cour…
23-6494 Lewis Dean Armstrong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-standard competency-to-assist-counsel due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure new-trial-motion pioneer-factors pioneer-investment-services-co-v-brunswick-associa rule-33 This petition is concerned with the denial of a new trial motion under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, filed well after the …
23-711 James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits 1. Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets …
23A493 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion Question not identified.
23-5904 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2023-10-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated…
22-7845 Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools Eighth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadvertence judicial-relief mistake mistake-of-law rule-60 summary-judgment surprise 1. The question presented is: Whether Petitioner Daniel Coleman Rule 60 is timely under Federal rules of Procedure Rule 60? 2. The question presented…
22-7347 Kimberly S. Elkins v. Kathy Miller New Mexico 2023-04-21 Denied IFP civil-rights court-procedure due-process eviction excusable-neglect forced-evictions judicial-bias standing vulnerable-litigants 1). Are all the reasons for New Mexico Court of Appeals dismissal of this case justified according to Petitioner's Civil Rights? 2). Is a more thorou…
22-7313 Rakim Moberly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-standard compassionate-release criminal-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-step-act notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appeal 1) Did the Petitioner's Letter to the District Court Clerk, which stated: "5:19-Cr~136-DCR Dear Court Clerk I received the decision from the court to…
22-6767 Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing - Whether the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion finding Petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal in the Dist…
22-6102 Samuel Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure court-deadline covid-19-lockdown due-process equity excusable-neglect judicial-discretion pandemic prisoner-rights I. WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED BECAUSE THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF …
21-8252 Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari VJHer-rPCfc T've /I'P'P cals pjjp I i ^w^/^-pro t//at/p£^riTitfw€Z 'S /ionot-l fofc CerT?T/HCA t£ PP /dpPcALA'S/C/r'f U/^5 P/(/<£]> utJ-ri/WcLH ofc A…
21-8080 Travis Horne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law.
21-559 Todd W. Hutton, et al. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure counsel-illness excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure illness-of-counsel rule-60b summary-judgment texas-law This case presents two questions: 1. Is illness of counsel which results in failure to comply with the local rules, a basis for relief as inadvertenc…
21-5726 Dexter Earl Kemp v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-20 Judgment Issued Amici (1)IFP civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law.
21-385 Drasc, Inc., et al. v. Navistar International Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure class-action due-process excusable-neglect opt-out reasonable-indication settlement Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(c)(2)(B) mandates that unnamed class members be given the right to "opt out" of a class settlement after a court'…
21-5531 Garlin Raymond Farris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process excusable-neglect indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pioneer-investment-services procedural-hurdles sixth-amendment The question presented, on which the federal appellate courts are currently divided, is whether appointed counsel's misconduct can serve as excusable …
20-8153 Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure docketing excusable-neglect filing-deadline jurisdictional-issue notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-filer Question 1: Did the Appellate Court erroneously calculate the filing deadline for the Notice of Appeal as January 21, 2021 instead of January 25, 2021…
20-7558 Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal? 2. Whether the plaintiff notified the Courts she was a…
20-6945 Robert White v. Kubotek Corporation, et al. First Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) timeliness timely-filing Does the "act" of mailing a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion for reconsideration in time for normal US Mail Second Day delivery to the US …
19-7493 Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness Whether THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ARBITRARILY and ERRONEOUSLY Denied APPELLANT NOTICE of Appeal FOR LACK of JURISDICTIO…
19-652 Norman D. Cox, Jr. v. The Money Source, Inc. New Jersey 2019-11-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-default-judgment default-judgment due-process excusable-neglect newly-discovered-evidence r-4-50-1-a service-of-process traverse-hearing 1. Did the Trial Court err in or abuse it's discretion by entering default judgment against Petitioner based upon the Respondent's defective Service o…
18-8304 Whitney N. Broach v. David G. Peake, Chapter 13 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP attorney-mistakes bankruptcy-attorney bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-filings bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure medical-bills procedural-rights Does a Federal Bankruptcy Judge (who has required the debtor to employ a Board Certified in Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney) deny the debtor's procedural…
18-6718 Timothy Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-abandonment due-process excusable-neglect pro-se pro-se-defendant rule-4(b) rule-4b sixth-amendment The Appellate Court violated Mr. Edwards Sixth Amendment Due Process Rights and Supreme Court precedent by the strict application of Rule 4(b). Where …
18-6437 Corey Holder v. Michael Sepanek, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect extension-of-time ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prima-facie-request record-review remand time-extension I. Had the Circuit Court of U.S. errored in failing to properly review the record and remand to the district court for consideration and necessary fin…
18-424 Judith M. Brown-Williams, et vir v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-warranty court-sanctions due-process excusable-neglect fraud rico standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigation warranty Did the Petitioner prevail in the Song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act violation of (Code of Civil Procedure Section 1790 et seq.) Did Respondent file …