federal-question-jurisdiction

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25-1044 Princess Azizi Kuulei Kaiama v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-03-04 Pending federal-question-jurisdiction international-law land-title-dispute mandamus native-hawaiian-sovereignty removal-jurisdiction Whether the Native Hawaiian citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii are entitled to remove a land title dispute from State court to federal court on the bas…
25-6806 Teresa Faye Morris v. Crawford & Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction irrevocable-trust judgment-lien jury-trial-right #1 Does a Celebrity have more God given rights than a Mega Fan of his, both are United States citizens? I wanted a Jury Trial. I requested in writing …
25A131 Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied civil-rights document-forgery federal-question-jurisdiction foreclosure removal-jurisdiction section-1443 Question not identified.
24-1208 Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case "substantial," such that it would give rise to federal question jurisdiction …
24-1191 Dennis D. Sadorra v. Starlight Dunes HOA, a California Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-144 28-usc-1441 due-process federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-disqualification removal-procedure 1. Whether the lower court, in failing to consider arguments presented by Petitioner, erred in its holding that removal procedure was defective? 2.…
24A833 Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-27 Presumed Complete claim-preclusion district-court-jurisdiction exhaustion-doctrine federal-question-jurisdiction personal-injury product-liability Question not identified.
24-5345 Benjamin-Macon Bell, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights-violation contract-law federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-immunity state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does a State Judge have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflict of interest? Does absolute immunity apply when a iudae has acte…
23-1326 Row 1 Inc., dba Regenative Labs v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-20 Denied Amici (1) administrative-appeals administrative-law cms-policies cms-policy federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-review medical-products-manufacturer medicare-act-42-usc-1395ii medicare-administrative-appeals notice-and-comment statutory-interpretation Whether 42 U.S.C. 405(h), incorporated into the Medicare Act by 42 U.S.C. 1395ii, prohibits a medical products manufacturer who cannot pursue the Medi…
23A318 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary Question not identified.
23-168 American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) civil-rights climate-change climate-change-litigation due-process federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction interstate-emissions removal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims Whether a federal district court has removal jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1331 and 1441 over putative state law claims seeking redress for injuries al…
22-910 Javitch Block, LLC v. Jerome Redman Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction procedural-remand remand removal state-court-litigation waiver The questions presented are whether waiver by participation in state court litigation is a permissible basis for District Courts to decline to exercis…
22-761 Todd Bowers v. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers, AFL-CIO Fourth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied due-process federal-question-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act motion-to-remand notice-of-removal preemption removal state-law-claims Whether it was proper for a district court to maintain federal question jurisdiction upon Notice of Removal and Response in Opposition/Motion to Reman…
22-6685 Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption A defendant sued in a State Court can timely remove the action to the local federal District Court where the party alleges federal question jurisdicti…
22-245 Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh v. Bellevue Park Homeowners Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction motion-practice pendent-claims pendent-state-law-claims privilege-law related-proceedings summary-judgment 1. Where a federal district court exercises federal question jurisdiction, does state or federal privilege law apply over pendent state law claims? 2…
22-229 In Re Brian D. Swanson 2022-09-12 Denied 17th-amendment administrative-law article-5 article-five 22-228" article-five-consent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-ratification equal-suffrage federal-question-jurisdiction georgia judicial-discretion patent-rights popular-elections senate-elections senate-representation seventeenth-amendment state-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion in di 1. Does the Seventeenth Amendment deprive the State of Georgia of its equal suffrage in the Senate, requiring its consent under Article 5 of the Co…
21-1223 Ohana Military Communities, LLC, et al. v. Kenneth Lake, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied concurrent-jurisdiction enclave-clause federal-enclaves federal-jurisdiction federal-policy federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction hawaii-admission-act military-housing 1. Where the United States expressly reserves jurisdiction over a federal enclave, but permits a state to exercise concurrent jurisdiction, does such …
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Unrecognized Transfer The Case From Guam Superior Court To Guam District Court , even with lack of Jurisdiction lead To Default Judgement And Levi on …
21-6850 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge district-court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandatory-hearing post-conviction-motion post-conviction-relief standing state-court-hearing state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of a mandatory hearing on a post-conviction motion was unconstitutional, invoking federal question jurisdiction in a di…
21-548 David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict…
20-1143 Denise A. Badgerow v. Greg Walters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) arbitration-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act federal-question-jurisdiction look-through-approach quezada-v-bechtel subject-matter-jurisdiction vaden-v-discover-bank Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the FAA where the only ba…
20-152 Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction class-action fake-products federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-procedure marketing state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Petitioners' class action complaint brought in state court seeking relief under Missouri law for respondents' marketing of fake prescription pet food …
19-778 Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction? Are Rule 38 Sanctions for "frivolous appeal" warranted when the appeal earn…
19-5939 Frank R. Montero v. Tulsa Airport Improvements Trust Tenth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights due-process federal-due-process federal-question-jurisdiction standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit-court title-28-usc-1443 writ-of-mandamus 1. When the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, states in a "Writ of Mandamus " that a State District Judge violated "Federal Due Process " did it…
19-5708 Relonzo Phillips v. DeKalb County Assistant Public Defenders, et al. Georgia 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-question-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner property-rights standing takings COMES NOW Petitioner Relonzo Phillips, Pro Se, ("Petitioner") and files this Petition for Writ of Certiorari requesting that this Honorable Court gran…
18A980 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-28 Presumed Complete CAFA class-action-fairness-act federal-question-jurisdiction joint-trial mass-action-removal products-liability Whether a state court's sua sponte proposal that claims brought by thousands of plaintiffs from around the country be "tried jointly" qualifies for "m…
18-7897 Larael Owens v. Maria Zucker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation contract-law due-process federal-question-jurisdiction immunity judicial-immunity standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.Does a State Judges have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflicts of interest Does absolute immunity apply when ajudge has acted…