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25-621 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied Response Waived attempted-kidnapping attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-act Can the Federal Government's get away with attempt kidnaping, multiple attempted murder, terrorist act and Human Rights violations on an American Citi…
25-329 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied attempted-murder court-influence fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-acts Can the Federal Government get away with attempted murder, terrorist acts, and Human Rights violations on an American Citizen and use the Federal Gove…
25-40 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied Response Waived attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights-violations judicial-immunity terrorism Can the Federal Government's Judicial influence and the Courts' interference protect the Federal Bureau of Investigation from liability for a Terroris…
24-1298 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2025-06-24 Denied booz-allen-hamilton civil-rights discrimination fbi-collusion federal-government judicial-interference Can the Federal Government Judicial influence and the Courts interference to disregard all the rules of the Courts to protect a corporation from liabi…
24-1270 In Re Harold Jean-Baptiste 2025-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fbi-liability federal-government human-rights judicial-accountability second-amendment Can the Federal Government and Judicial influence protect the Federal Bureau of Investigations from liability and accountability of Human Rights, Civi…
24-7279 Carlos Hernandez, aka Ra Saadi Lennox Hernandez El v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-government race-discrimination dart & Yace U°» sparse V»ave aaces-Vcws become a- clV\2.er\ aat-j NlaV\oaa\ Pedeva\ 0>ove.\rttVAen-V 9±. 2. a Kace ol^ev becoK\a<j W\Yvc.V\ ~laa\ Vs…
24-1059 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Response Waived bureau-of-investigations civil-rights conspiracy federal-government human-rights judicial-interference Can the Federal Government Judicial influence and the Courts interference to disregard all the rules of the Courts to protect the Federal Bureau of In…
24-13 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (8) commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States?
23-1353 Kansas, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-rule-making collusive-settlements federal-government federal-government-defense intervention litigation-strategy ninth-circuit standing sue-and-settle Did the Ninth Circuit err when it denied States with sufficient interests the ability to intervene as defendants after the federal government stopped …
23-7258 T. C., Minor Child, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Theodore Cabaniss v. Pfizer, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-declaration federal-government federal-immunity fifth-amendment medical-malpractice Does due process clause in fifth amendment to United States Constitution permit federal government to immunize medical providers from medical malpract…
23-6535 Ryan C. Armstrong v. United States Federal Government, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-government judicial-circuit law-enforcement mental-health standing state-government state-jurisdiction I am not presenting my case to the Supreme Court with a question. My case is being presented to the Supreme Court as a matter of right. My case is a c…
22-1116 Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied civil-procedure federal-agency federal-government native-american-tribes sovereign-immunity state-adjudication water-rights Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an action challenging a federal agency's use of water subject to state-adjudicated wa…
22-6469 In Re Kenneth Crawford, Jr. 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitution constitutional-limits due-process enumerated-powers federal-government jurisdictional-elements legislative-power legislative-powers territorial-jurisdiction 1. Does the Constitution for the United States of America limit the federal government and define the powers of the legislature? Do the enumeration of…
22-5885 Christopher Surles v. Warden, Limestone Correctional Facility, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-government federal-procedure notice-of-appeal procedural-rules standing time-limitation time-limits united-states-agency Does the Order of Dismissal (Appendix Z) does that make the United States a party to the appeal? What is the time limit for the filing of a notice of…
21-1542 Mill Bay Members Association, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response Waived equitable-estoppel executive-order federal-government general-allotment-act indian-lands land-allotment trust trust-period In the early twentieth century, the United States allotted a parcel of land called Moses Allotment No. 8 ("MA-8") to American Indian Wapato John under…
21-1384 Florida v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Amici (1) ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-government federalism remedies standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation title-ii Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which grants any "person alleging discrimination" certain "remedies, procedures, and rights,"…
21-7421 Linda Jolly v. Carmelita White, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights disclosure disclosure-laws due-process federal-government federal-law no-fear-act retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Why did the United States Federal Government allow Federal UNAX Law (IRM 10.5.5) and Retaliation Laws to be broken through the "No Fear Act"? Why was …
21-1054 Shaoming Song v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response Waived 18-U.S.C.-1001 29-U.S.C.-633(a) age-discrimination but-for-causation civil-procedure discovery-rule federal-government fraud plausibility-pleading stare-decisis statute-of-limitations 1. Whether, or under what circumstance, a six-year concealed fraud in a federal agency's official personnel action allegedly violated the Age Discrimi…
21-5441 Brandon Mark Bjerknes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment article-1-section-3 constitutional-construction double-jeopardy executive-branch federal-government federal-lawmaking judicial-minimalism senate-representation state-representation (1) Under Article I, section 3, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, does the Senate, through its constitutional construction, link the State G…
20-8107 Gregory Turner v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-government labor-investigation merit-system merit-system-protection-board veterans-preference of Labor's Veteran's Employment and Training Service appeal heard by the Veteran's Employment and Training Service of U.S. Department of Labor? 2. Di…
20-6527 Byron Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
20-333 Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) america-invents-act federal-government federal-reserve-banks federal-reserve-system government-entity patent patent-review post-issuance-review return-mail-decision return-mail-v-usps standing Whether the regional Federal Reserve Banks — the "operating arms" of the Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States — are …
20-82 Kane County, Utah, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-representation civil-procedure environmental-interest federal-civil-procedure federal-government intervention intervention-as-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action special-interest-groups standing tenth-circuit-precedent This petition addresses whether private special interest groups have an interest to intervene as of right in a quiet title action brought by a State a…
19-8195 Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied IFP assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C…
19-1162 Addison Thompson v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-claim administrative-settlement civil-rights copyright-act copyright-law due-process exhaustion-of-claims federal-agency federal-government federal-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation vara visual-artists-rights-act In 2014, a photographic mural project was destroyed during the relocation of the Peter Stuyvesant United States Postal Service (USPS), New York. The U…
19-1137 Tennessee, By and Through the Tennessee General Assembly, et al. v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coerce-state-pay-federal-program commandeer-state-funds commandeering constitutional-coercion federal-commandeering federal-government federal-program legislative-standing medicaid-funding separation-of-powers standing state-funds state-legislature state-sovereignty 1. Whether both chambers of a state legislature, acting together, have institutional standing to sue the federal government when the federal governmen…
19-7719 Adam Christopher Sheafe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumvent-obligations circumvention criminal-procedure detainer federal-government federal-state-relations federal-transfer habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum interstate-agreement-on-detainers judicial-discretion purpose-of-iad state-filed-detainer violate-purpose writ-of-habeas-corpus-ad-prosequendum 1. Whether the Interstate Agreement on Detainers applies when the State, in which the federal district sits, filed a detainer and the federal governme…
19-6721 Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi…
19-6716 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody Does one sovereign - specifically the federal government - lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when they release an inmate who is serving their…
19-6552 Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi…
19-6269 Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi…
19-6034 Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause attorney-general-succession-act civil-procedure federal-government federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-vacancies-reform-act notice plain-error procedural-forfeiture rule-52b social-media social-media-notice Can announcements made via the President's personal social media be sufficient to put litigants against the Federal Government on notice so that litig…
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents (1) Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permi…
19-370 Samuel D. Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. Puerto Rico 2019-09-19 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process federal-government individual-rights puerto-rico religious-freedom state-sovereignty I - Is Puerto Rico and its people under the juris diction of The United States of America Constitution and under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Am…
19-61 Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Title 28, section 516, of the United States Code, vests the authority to litigate on behalf of the United States in the Department of Justice, under t…
18-9507 Theon Smith v. Charleston County Domestic Relations, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law child-support-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-government parental-rights sovereign-immunity standing title-iv-d Does the United States unequivocally wave its sovereign immunity when it does business with its citizens? Is the office of Child Support Enforcement …
18-7013 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause congress constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-authority federal-government interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce legislative-interpretation regulatory-scope state-governments state-powers Does Article One of The Constitution of The United States (The Constitution) say, "We the people grant to ... The Congress of the United States the co…
18-6499 Dominique Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-agents federal-government fourth-amendment home-arrest standing tenth-amendment warrantless-search Just 6, 2004 by The United States of America's Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents took within the jurisdiction of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania…
18-68 Marie Conforto v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response Waived appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-government judicial-discretion notice procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte 1. Whether an appeals court deciding a case sua sponte, without hearing or any other chance for the Appellant to respond, is a violation of due proces…