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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-6847 | Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-03-25 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing | Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting … |
| 24-6414 | Albert Pinedo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias criminal-procedure impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a prospective juror to make an unequivocal commitment to impartiality after revealing their actual bias. |
| 24-707 | Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Denied | Response Waived | conflict-of-interest due-process impartiality judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics right-to-appeal | Preamble: The Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court's Order, overlooking the significant fact that the presiding judge was disqualified due to a… |
| 24-5227 | James W. Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant is denied his Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury when the trial court determines that a potential… |
| 23-7409 | Fernando Ramirez v. New York | New York | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right criminal-procedure demeanor-observation due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the Constitution requires that a defendant have a simultaneous, unobstructed view of a prospective juror's facial expression to observe their … |
| 23-1072 | Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Amici (3) | 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation | The federal disqualification statute, 28 U.S.C. §455, compels federal judges to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality mig… |
| 23-978 | Loan Phuong v. Cong Van Nguyen | Virginia | 2024-03-07 | Denied | 6th-amendment bias due-process impartiality judicial-bias legal-procedure prejudice sixth-amendment supreme-court virginia-law virginia-supreme-court | Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's decision caused the Petitioner to suffer damages when it refused to rehear her case against the Respondent in vio… | |
| 23-6811 | In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appearance-of-bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-fairness standing takings | Question not identified. | |
| 23-730 | Anna Pezhman v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. | New York | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-law civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 equitable-doctrine federal-preemption impartiality impartiality-doctrine judicial-intervention quota-system title-vii | 1. Does Federal Law pre-empt New York 's mandatory equitable doctrine of seeking court intervention in mid-arbitration proceedings to remedy arbitral … |
| 23A395 | Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | discretionary-review impartiality judicial-disqualification mandamus recusal statutory-standard | While the reviewability of a judicial disqualification decision must be analyzed in terms of the underlying basis for the judicial disqualification mo… | |
| 23-5330 | Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights | Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC-3443-22-0386-1-1) which was about Mr. Waschull not recuesing himself from t… |
| 22-7820 | Annamalai Annamalai v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing | I. Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality when the court's remarks at sent… |
| 22-858 | John W. Fink v. Jonathan L. Bishop, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response Waived | bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process impartiality judicial-bias plenary-hearing rule-12(b)(6) rule-60(d) standing third-circuit | Did the Third Circuit judges repeatedly fail to impartially decide my underlying appeal case, as well as other previous appeal cases of mine? Did the… |
| 21-7981 | Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida | Florida | 2022-05-26 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-ethics public-trust | Contrary to Severener's errer, Grndaticol eer Or Harmless Preedureal Delbele can any Trdlted-wnreade be vali when browaht by Un credible Persons who a… |
| 21-5890 | Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness | 1. Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the cr… |
| 21-412 | Samantha V. Roussell v. Bank of New York Mellon | Florida | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud impartiality judicial-review mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement | Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Fourth DCA ") violated the due process protections of the 5… |
| 20-1512 | Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether law enforcement officers, despite their answers to voir dire questions, can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial in order to… |
| 20-6618 | Marcel Malachowski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington | Does An Appeal Brought Under 28 U.S.C. § 1455 Associated To Other Avenue Of Relief Grits When An Appellate Court Fails To Adequately Resolve Impartial… |
| 20-745 | Ismael Lechuga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr… |
| 20-6357 | Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles | California | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality | 1. Can a for-profit law firm, without supervision from the public prosecutor, be contracted out to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial… |
| 20-285 | Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation | Whether the word "shall " binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to be ada… | |
| 20-165 | Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller | Wisconsin | 2020-08-14 | Denied | 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing | Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook "friends"? | |
| 19-1185 | Carol Wilding, et al. v. DNC Services Corporation, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | amendment civil-procedure civil-rights democratic-party due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fiduciary-duty fraud impartiality rule-12 rule-15 standing | 1. Does the Democratic National Committee ("DNC"), a not-for-profit corporation charged with general responsibility for th e affairs of the Democratic… | |
| 19-7885 | In Re Kenton G. Findlay | 2020-03-05 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing | Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a… | |
| 19-7424 | Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. | California | 2020-01-27 | Denied | IFP | conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence | Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su… |
| 19-6286 | Vara Birapaka v. United States Army Research Laboratory, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process fraud impartiality judicial-review plausibility prima-facie procedural-fairness professional-conduct rights rule-60-motion standing | 1) Whether a federal court adjudicating a motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60 may simply write off Petitioner's motion without any analysi… |
| 19-5103 | Kenton G. Findlay v. Star Lakes Association, Inc. | Florida | 2019-07-08 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights disqualification due-process foreclosure foreclosure-appeal impartiality judicial-impartiality service-of-process | Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DC A") violated the due process protection of the 5th … |
| 18-9717 | Kenton G. Findlay v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. | Florida | 2019-06-19 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-violation disqualification due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fraud fraud-on-court impartiality judicial-impartiality | Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a… |
| 18-8840 | Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act impartiality judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold sovereign-immunity standing tort-claims | Whether the invoked appellate court adjudicative jurisdiction should acknowledged the particularism of any trial court judge's non - judicial palpable… |
| 18-7951 | Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial | 1. Should a judge recuse ones self from reviewing a motion that is challeging their rulings made during a bench trial? 2. Is it ineffective assistanc… |
| 18-7452 | Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire | Whether the district court abused its discretion in rejecting Garcia's proposed voir dire questions regarding potential racial and ethnic bias against… |
| 18-888 | Michael S. Bent v. Cheryl Strange, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-grants impartiality judicial-impartiality noncustodial-parent parens-patriae social-security-act state-courts strict-scrutiny title-iv-d | Lacking federal definition for the Title IV-D noncustodial parent, may a state agency classify an obligator parent as a Title IV-D noncustodial parent… |
| 18-732 | Jean Coulter v. Blaze Tatananni, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process grand-jury-review impartiality judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal standing vagueness | Are Recusal Statutes 28 U.S. Code §455 and §144 Unconstitutionally Vague? Must the decision be overturned as Due Process is denied/impossible in the … |
| 18-723 | Jose Rodriguez v. Bank of America, N.A. | Florida | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equitable-relief foreclosure foreclosure-evidence impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement | Whether the due process protections enshrined in the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U. S. Constitution prohibit Florida Courts from turning a blind ey… |
| 18-711 | Donny Marin, et al. v. The Bank of New York | Florida | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement | Whether the due process protections enshrined in the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U. S. Constitution prohibit Florida Courts from turning a blind ey… |
| 18-6559 | Tommy Alexander, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-rights court-recusal due-process fair-and-impartial-court impartiality judicial-bias recusal tribunal-fairness | The question before this Court is the recusal of the District Court in this Cause since the District Court has displayed a bias against the Petitioner… |
| 18-564 | Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing | Whether the right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United S… |
| 18-5928 | Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CLARIFY AN IMPORTANT AREA OF LAW RELATING TO WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE UNDER T… |
| 18-103 | Nathalie Thuy Van v. Language Line LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | court-impartiality disqualification-requirement due-process fraud fraud-upon-court fraudulent-court-records impartiality judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-fraud procedural-irregularities seventh-circuit supreme-court-review void-orders | I. Whether the Court of Appeals made a decision with respect to the disqualification requirement that conflict with past United States Supreme . Court… |