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25-696 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a "suitable" federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.…
25-6299 Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bonded-bill-of-exchange commercial-surety federal-claims state-treasurer takings-clause tucker-act 1. Whether the United States is liable under the Tucker Act and the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause when a State Treasurer, acting under federally de…
25-468 Walter Rosales, et al. v. Condon-Johnson Associates, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied district-court federal-claims futility-exception remand statutory-interpretation supplemental-jurisdiction Does a District Court have supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1367 to dismiss a proffered amended complaint deleting all federal claims pursua…
25-395 Eran Rubinstein, et al. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived accrual-rule civil-rico federal-claims injury-discovery legal-procedure statute-of-limitations 1. The first question presented is whether civil RICO is subject to a "separate accrual" rule whereby a new claim accrues, triggering a new four-yea…
25-5783 Tanya Spurbeck v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Nevada 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-rights due-process federal-claims indigent-litigants legal-representation supremacy-clause As of April 26, 2024, there is required federal funding, signed by the Nevada Attorney General, to promise required legal representation to indigent a…
25-5094 Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al. Texas 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims jurisdiction supremacy-clause trial-court 1- Whether the state 's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court 's final judgment to dism…
24-470 Michelle R. Gilbank v. Wood County Department of Human Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Amici (3) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-claims rooker-feldman-doctrine state-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Deployed in "tens of thousands of circuit and district court decisions," App.15a, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine stops lower federal courts from exercisi…
24-5331 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP exhaustion-doctrine federal-claims habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-courts WHETHER PRINCIPLES OF COMITY REQUIRE FREQUENT BUT UNAVAILING FAIR PRESENTATIONS OF FEDERAL CLAIMS TO STATE COURTS TO EXCUSE EXHAUSTION, EVEN IF THE ST…
23-7719 Justin T. Winston v. Jon Noble, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights constitutional-violations federal-claims postconviction-motion procedural-default state-law wisconsin-law Did Mr. Winston procedurally default all of his federal claims? If Mr. Winston defaulted his claims, did he show cause and prejudice? Did the Wiscon…
23-1211 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-discovery federal-claims fraud judicial-notice prima-facie-evidence rule-60-motion standing void-order Petitioner presents the following questions to this Court and asserts all below should be answered in the affirmative: 1. Whether the Court below mis…
23A1004 Lemon Bay Cove, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-10 Presumed Complete federal-claims fifth-amendment government-interference property-rights regulatory-taking tucker-act Question not identified.
22-904 Jane Doe 8, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) american-pipe civil-procedure class-action federal-claims non-federal-claims rule-23 statute-of-limitations tolling-rule In American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah, this Court held that "a class action suspends the applicable statute [of limitations] as to all asserted …
22-676 Bonnie Carter v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction guardianship-proceeding standing state-agents younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires dismissal of constitutional and federal claims arising from false reports and other lies told by stat…
22-297 Kevin Llewellyn McGhee v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights combat-related-injury correction-of-records disability due-process federal-claims federal-employee-rights military military-disability I. Whether a Court and an armed forces board of corrections, can invalidate disability laws, disregard a service member's permanent disability combat-…
22-97 Owl Creek Asia I, L.P., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied collins-v-yellen conservatorship corporate-ownership federal-claims federal-housing-finance-agency government-action net-worth-sweep private-shareholders property-interest shareholders-rights takings takings-clause If the United States causes a company to transfer to the United States for the public benefit private shareholders' rights incident to their ownership…
21-1569 SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Kentucky 2022-06-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute The Louisville Metro Planning Commission denied a developer's applications for approval of a minor plat and a related waiver after announcing their bi…
21-1475 Maria Vazquez-Javier v. Union de Tronquistas de Puerto Rico Local 901 Puerto Rico 2022-05-24 Denied eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-claims federal-regulatory-framework retaliation state-claims statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the federal statutory and regulatory framework provides that any employee that files a Charge of Discrimination and Retaliation before the Equ…
21-542 Michael Zito, et ux. v. North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-claims federal-takings-claims fourteenth-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's incorporation of the "self-executing" Just Compensation Clause abrogates state sovereign immunity from federal taki…
21-430 Luke T. West v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution 1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o…
21-5618 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-judicial-system certificate-of-appealability coa-issuance federal-claims human-rights inter-american-commission judicial-system state-court-review state-courts 1. When State courts were deprived of their primary responsibility to decide on Petitioner's federal claims, was it error for the court not to to issu…
21-249 Probir Kumar Bondyopadhyay v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-claims government-taking invention-compensation national-defense patent patent-rights standing takings The question before the Honorable U.S. Supreme Court is on the recognition and affirmation of the Jeffersonian claim of an original creature of the U.…
20-8026 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts 1. This is a question of first impression since AEDPA. When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts, the opportunity to review federal claims, this fa…
20-1368 Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. §2675(a), is the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative cl…
19-8367 Brandon Blake Coleman v. Texas Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP adjudication constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment merits-review standing Whether the State of Texas has violated Petitioner's right to Due Process protections under the Fifth & Fourteenth amendments, Constitution whereas, p…
19-8320 Quintez Talley v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-claims pleading-standards prisoner-rights pro-se-plaintiff state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction 1. Is a Parties right to raise an absolute a/identiam. PYimleae tontaent UP0Y1 Whether bY evidence ? 2. bots -the. doctrine thaba district Court must…
19-705 John F. Sharpe v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion federal-claims military-pay separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treasury-disbursements I. Whether the acts of officials of the De partments of Defense and of the Navy are bound by statute and regulation. II. Whether a court may find va…
19-523 Victor Bernard Williams v. Baptist Health, dba Baptist Health Medical Center, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived 2014 revocation of a medical license by the Arkan adverse-negative-reports adverse-reports civil-action civil-rights federal-cause-of-action federal-claims medical-license medical-license-revocation qualified-immunity res-judicata state-board 1. Whether the April 3, 2014 revocation of Plaintiff's Arkansas medical license by the Arkansas State Board of Medical Examiners ("Medical Board") gav…
19-486 Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment 1. Under what circumstances may an appellate court review the findings of the district court with respect to the validity of the disputed material fac…
19-5903 Martin Ogden v. Digital Intelligence Systems Arizona 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-claims federal-law judicial-authority judicial-review nullity state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause 1. Like any other state or federal court, both state courts of record for this case (specifically, the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County and …
19-5484 Geoff Edwin Murphy v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP attempted-homicide constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process federal-claims forfeiture jury-instructions legal-procedure state-court-rule state-trial-court 1. THE STATE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVED APPELLANT OF HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY INSTRUCTING THE JURY ON JUSTIFIABLE ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE 2. THE STATE COURT …
18-1467 Ty Clevenger v. Melanie Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived abstention administrative-hearing administrative-law article-iii-judges civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-administrative-hearing state-court-judicial-review state-court-review younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine 1. The Younger abstention doctrine "naturally presupposes the opportunity to raise and have timely decided by a competent state tribunal the federal i…
18A1198 Lynn Lumbard, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation federal-claims property-rights ripeness state-court-remedies takings-clause Whether the Court should reconsider the portion of Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172, 194-96 (1985), requi…
18-8958 Sheila Davalloo v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication AEDPA equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-claims state-created-impediment statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations WHETHER PETITIONER HAS DEMONSTRATED AN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE WARRANTING EQUITABLE TOLLING OF THE AEDPA STATUTE OF LIMITATION? WHETHER PETITIONER…
18-1292 Craig Roth v. Nassau County, New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel disability due-process employment federal-claims judicial-procedure Are lower courts correctly applying the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel to bar federal claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
18-812 Teamsters Local 210 Affiliated Health and Insurance Fund v. Leon Silverman, as Trustee of the Union Mutual Medical Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreements federal-claims jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope labor-management-relations-act labor-management-relations-act-301a labor-organization national-labor-policy signatory supplemental-jurisdiction union-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust-fund 1. Did the Second Circuit impermissibly expand the jurisdiction of LMRA § 301(a) and drastically alter national labor policy when it held that a union…
18-5395 Wayne Clyde Mezzles v. John N. Katavich, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP criminal-procedure-forfeiture defense-counsel due-process federal-claims forfeiture-bar jury-admonitions jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-proportionality state-procedural-bar trial-court Before trial, the court ruled that defense expert Robert Owen could testify about Mezzles's PTSD but not about his capacity to form the specific inten…
18-119 Gotech International Technology Limited, et al. v. Nagravision SA Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure defendant-jurisdiction due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-claims federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-defendants jurisdiction-pleading personal-jurisdiction pleading pleading-requirements rule-4k2 subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff invoking jurisdiction under Rule 4(k)(2) must plead that "the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of ge…
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a…