federal-court-procedure

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25-934 Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. First Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in…
25-5463 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process-clause federal-court-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation 1. Do a Pro Se litigant have constitutional provision in federal court? Violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments, "Due process clause". Ensures that t…
24-6439 Amir Abdul-Alim, et ux., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children A.A.A. and I.A.A. v. Clark County School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equal-access-to-justice federal-court-procedure mandatory-legal-counsel parental-authority pro-se-litigation Brought before the Court is the issues of whether the United States District Court, District of Nevada (hereinafter USDC) by way of the United States …
24-5605 In Re Shannon Clark 2024-09-20 Denied IFP all-writs-act constitutional-interpretation equitable-remedy federal-court-procedure judicial-power mandamus Pursuant to Article III, § 2 of the United States Constitution and Fed. R. Civ. P. 79(a)(1)(A), does not The All Writs Act (28 USCS § 1651(a)) invests…
24-5291 Ethan Printemps-Herget v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights federal-court-procedure legal-representation pro-se-litigation summary-judgment witness-testimony Are Pro Se litigants entitled to participate fully in the legal process? How are pro se litigants expected to know case law to identify precedent? As…
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 …
23-181 Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal district-court-discretion federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standards rule-11-sanctions sanctions settlement sua-sponte-sanctions 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Petitioner sua sponte pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 11 after settlem…
22-7786 Lei Yin v. Biogen Inc. First Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure judicial-discretion legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing 1. Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Federal Court System? 2. In Civil Cases, under what condition those who cannot afford to hire a la…
22-169 Jay Lin, et ux. v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-ethics procedural-rules recusal The case started as a falsely debt collection case in New Jersey State Courts with the New Jersey Court Judges accepted personal, private, and secreti…
21-6624 Arthur F. Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure federalism habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdiction-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WHETHER THE PRIOR EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION RULE SHOULO HAVE PAECLUDED THE OISTRICT COURT AND THE APPELLANT COURT FROM EXERCISING JURISOICTION OVER TH…
21-6197 Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
21-5310 Marcus Daniel Silver v. Bertram Siegel, et al. California 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 30-day-rule civil-procedure federal-court-procedure filing-deadlines jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-removal receipt-of-complaint service-of-process statutory-interpretation I. NOTICE OF REMOVAL: According to the plain language meaning of 28 U.S. Code §1446, the notice of removal of a civil action or proceeding shall be fi…
20-1815 Dale J. Richardson v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus immigration-court judicial-suspension obstruction-of-justice torture torture-prevention Is it constitutional to leave a person in the custody of someone they alleged torture against? Is it constitutional to use a grievance policy to obst…
20-1403 Benny Hernandez v. Excel Contractors, Inc. Louisiana 2021-04-07 Denied bone-growth-stimulator closed-records federal-court-procedure medical-malpractice spinal-cord-injury workers-compensation Question not identified.
20-7431 Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or her self pro se, should no issues conce…
19-6085 Frank Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing constitutional-standing criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction jurisdictional-hierarchy non-merits-questions standing standing-requirement 1. This Court's jurisdictional-sequencing decisions establish that a federal court may resolve a case on any non-merits question. This Court holds tha…
18-1547 Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied 28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Ninth Circuit—in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit—erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from …
18-7673 In Re Roda Hiramanek 2019-01-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection federal-court-procedure judicial-interference judicial-misconduct standing The issue here goes beyond a miscarriage of justice. It's lower courts' blatant and outright refusal to administer justice, when law warrants otherwis…
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution? Whether the Federal Cou…
18-6470 In Re Gary Malone 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2244(b) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice panetti-v-quarterman standing successive-petition successive-petitions For the first time under the extraordinary rare facts of petitioner case where an district court Judge and a United States Circuit Judge both agree wi…
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Did the DC Circuit err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ("District Court") substituting the United State…