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25-985 Evan Norman v. Deputy Lee Ingle, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending appellate-jurisdiction genuine-issue-of-fact interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence In an interlocutory qualified immunity appeal involving video evidence, under what circumstances, if any, may an appellate court review a district cou…
25-6841 Philong Huynh v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2026-02-18 Pending IFP collateral-order-doctrine disqualification effective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal irreparable-harm judicial-impartiality Do the right to effective counsel as denied by the trial court's refusal to hold hearing on substitution of counsel and the right to an impartial judg…
25A685 Gopher Media LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Corporation, fka Local Clicks, dba Doctor Multimedia, et al. v. Andrew Melone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order federal-courts interlocutory-appeal state-law-privilege Question not identified.
25-636 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts 2025-12-03 Denied confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets 1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote…
25-569 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus In Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, this Court held that federal appellate courts do not "have jurisdiction under [28 U.S.C.] § 1291 . . . to review an order…
25A377 Ian S. R. Buenaventura v. Leslie G. C. Buot Maine 2025-10-01 Presumed Complete anti-slapp first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-review pro-se procedural-due-process Question not identified.
24-7444 Jameel Ibrahim v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291—without remanding to the district co…
24-1091 Christopher Kiely, et al. v. Sherene Fagon, Administrator of the Estate of Zoe Dowdell Second Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response Waived interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity second-circuit trial-court undisputed-facts 1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to exercise jurisdiction over Defendants' interlocutory appeal of the trial courts d…
24A906 Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation Fifth Circuit 2025-03-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se Question not identified.
24-6187 Joe Willie Cannon v. Michael Dehner, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court factual-findings interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity section-1983 In actions brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, it is well-established that interlocutory review of a denied motion for summary judgment can only be …
24-628 BNP Paribas SA, a French Corporation, et al. v. Entesar Osman Kashef, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied circuit-split class-certification district-court interlocutory-appeal manifest-error rule-23f Whether the courts of appeals have discretion under Rule 23(f) to grant interlocutory review solely because a district court's class-certification ord…
24-6085 Tanya Tyson v. Madelyn Winningham, et al. Oklahoma 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-claim insurance-contract interlocutory-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the Supreme Court err when they dismissed my case for lack of an appealable Order (this is an interlocutory appeal) because they discerned that…
24-611 Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied 10th-circuit constitutional-rights deposition-order interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure magistrate-jurisdiction 1. Whether the 10th Circuit of Appeals may arbitrarily deprive of Petitioner's Constitutional rights for appeal by abusing 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to deny Pe…
24-538 Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied civil-rights interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment After a police officer fatally shot Jonathan Victor, Victor's estate sued the officer and his supervisor, Sherriff Huey Mack, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. …
24-387 Malikah Asante-Chioke v. Nicholas Dowdle, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine discovery-order immunity-cases interlocutory-appeal judicial-review The question presented is whether the courts of appeals have jurisdiction to review routine discovery orders under the collateral order doctrine, a na…
24A155 Martin Akerman v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete administrative-law federal-employment interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-review mspb-procedure pro-se-litigation Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can be properly named as the respondent in appeals to the Federal Circuit when the appeal concerns t…
24A147 Martin Akerman v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete administrative-review civil-service interlocutory-appeal mspb-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation whistleblower-protection Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can be properly named as the respondent in appeals to the Federal Circuit when the appeal concerns t…
24-5204 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral order …
24-5199 Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-07-31 Denied IFP dismissal due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment interlocutory-appeal obstruction-of-justice petition-government self-incrimination (1).Whether S.J.C. Rule 2:21 (2), as amended, 434 Mass. 1301 (2001) is an adequate basis to dismiss the Petitioner 's Complaint, and not a violation o…
24-64 Nicholas Piazza, et al. v. Gramercy Distressed Opportunity Fund II L.P., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Dismissed Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-stay circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-order motion-to-compel motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-pending-arbitration Whether, under 9 U.S.C. § 16, a circuit court has appellate jurisdiction over an interlocutory order denying a motion for a stay pending arbitration o…
24-5088 In Re Gavin B. Davis 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation (1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or…
23-1232 Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory …
23A993 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation (1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or…
23-7376 Rajesh P. Budhabhatti v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1346 collateral-order-doctrine criminal-prosecution honest-services-fraud interlocutory-appeal judicial-resources judicial-review public-official self-dealing statutory-interpretation 1. Skilling v. United States , 561 U.S. 358 (2010), holds that fraudulent self-dealing by a public official is not honest services fraud under 18 U.S.…
23-7127 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority 1. Jurisdiction Over Habeas Corpus Decisions from the Federal Circuit: Does jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions originating within the administr…
23A819 Sidikatu Raji v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal preliminary-injunction Question not identified.
23-896 Sean Garnand, et al. v. Greg Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation legal-question qualified-immunity Can a Circuit Court of Appeals simply elect not to decide purely legal qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdic…
23A749 Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, et al. v. Donald Agee, Jr., et al. Michigan 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-statement legislative-maps redistricting remedial-process special-master Question not identified.
23-6444 David D. Madriz, Jr. v. Adam Aron, et al. Delaware 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP chancery-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances interlocutory-appeal standing stockholder-litigation supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Delaware failed to follow Delaware Chancery Court's procedures of and whether this court was required to consider scope o…
23-5944 Kaylin Eric Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal judicial-review ninth-circuit standing Question not identified.
23-459 Mark Sami Ibrahim v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure federal-law-enforcement federal-officer interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement-immunity motion-to-dismiss qualified-immunity regulation statute statutory-interpretation Whether DEA Special Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim raised a colorable claim of a legislated immunity in the text of the statute and regulation granting Feder…
23-448 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5 as the June 9th, 2023 and June 13th, 2023 arose from an improperly di…
23-5774 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-policy civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus-petition public-confidence standing Several federal appellate circuits have endorsed the view that a federal district court's refusal to recuse is better resolved earlier in interlocutor…
23-331 James Doe v. Gladys Pisani, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied abuse-of-discretion disputed-facts interlocutory-appeal jury-trial material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that "arguable probable cause" can support a claim for qualified immunity on summary judgment after t…
22-983 Remingtyn A. Williams, et al. v. Lamar A. Davis, Superintendent, Louisiana State Police Fifth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived collateral-order eleventh-amendment interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-review judicial-process pendent-appellate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing May a court of appeals exercise pendent appellate jurisdiction to consider an issue, such as standing, that "significantly overlaps" with an immediate…
22-959 Gwendolyn Carswell, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of and on Behalf of the Estate of Gary Valdez Lynch, III and Gary Valdez Lynch, III's Heirs at Law v. George A. Camp, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights discovery immediate-appeal interlocutory-appeal motion-to-dismiss procedural-law qualified-immunity standing 1. Whether a district court can defer ruling on qualified immunity at the motion-to-dismiss stage without triggering an immediate appeal. 2. Whether …
22-790 Vanessa Wereko v. Lori Rosen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 28-usc-1292 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure congressional-intent discretionary-appeal district-court interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion status-quo statutory-interpretation Whether Congress ' intent for an interlocutory appeal as of right, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1), can be unilaterally converted into a discretionary ap…
22-741 Faith Bible Chapel International v. Gregory Tucker Tenth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Amici (12)Relisted (4) church-autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal judicial-immunity ministerial-exception religion-clauses religious-freedom standing I. Whether the First Amendment's "ministerial exception" should be understood as an immunity from judicial interference in church employment decisions…
22-6557 Diana Louise Houck v. Lifestore Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure cumulative-finality dismissal finality interlocutory-appeal right-to-appeal rule-58 vacatur 1. Cumulative Finality: When a Plaintiff has not requested cumulative finality for an interlocutory appeal, the Circuit Court of Appeals did not deter…
22-6123 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-blackmail judicial-independence judicial-misconduct special-master subpoena whistleblower Where the U.S. Court of Appeals did not properly and appropriately proceeded with two consolidated interlocutory appeals on the District Court's order…
22-392 Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins by denying Bel Air's motion to defer its ruli…
22-172 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus microsoft-v-baker voluntary-dismissal Does an appellate court have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and Article III when a plaintiff voluntarily dismisses its claims with prejudice in o…
22-105 Coinbase, Inc. v. Abraham Bielski Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-appeal circuit-split civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel Does a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration oust a district court's jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending ap…
21-1580 MyPillow, Inc. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-22 Denied actual-malice collateral-order-doctrine defamation first-amendment free-speech interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-appeal new-york-times-standard A defamation lawsuit has been filed by a for profit corporation ("Dominion") whose machines tabulated ballots in 28 States in the 2020 Presidential el…
21-8110 In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap 1. Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a rig…
21-1492 Anas Elhady v. Blake Bradley Sixth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied bivens bivens-remedy border-enforcement civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-law-enforcement interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity For decades, this Court has vigilantly enforced the final judgment rule codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1291, emphasizing the "modest scope" of the "small cla…
21-7132 Dominique C. Swopes v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-16 Denied IFP capital-case discovery-order due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal scientific-evidence state-created-right trial-court-discretion When a trial court's discovery order regarding scientific testing of evidence will result in the total consumption of the evidence and thus preclude a…
21-6793 Markette Tillman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court attorney-dismissal attorney-firing clear-error constitutional-rights interlocutory interlocutory-appeal sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Where the appeals court previously found that it was clear error to fire a defendant's attorney in an interlocutory context, does the Sixth Amendme…
21-947 Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss Fifth Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment 1. In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit alleging a Franks v. Delaware violation of the Fourth Amendment, where the plaintiff has made at least one substantia…
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment 1) Does a United States.Court of Appeals have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1291 to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the Di…
21-899 Lauren Rosecan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response Waived collateral-order-doctrine criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process felony grand-jury grand-jury-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-defect pretrial-motion Whether the denial of a pretrial motion to dismiss a criminal information that charges, in violation of theGrand Jury Clause, felony offenses without …
21-885 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Meredith Callahan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut…
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1292(a)(1) that has been fully briefed and pending in the United States Court of …
21-837 Robert Bohanon, et al. v. Jacqueline Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court federal-courts interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether, and in what circumstances, a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction over an immediate appeal from a district court's summary-judgment orde…
21-836 Sara Gonzalez Flavell v. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development District of Columbia 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-due-process prohibition writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate because, contrary to the denial of mandamus and prohibition by the court of appeals and its holding, th…
21-725 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut…
20-1047 Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated.
20-6957 Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order?
20-1018 Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine interlocutory-appeal public-entities state-action-immunity Whether and under what conditions orders denying state-action immunity to public entities are immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctri…
20-875 Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine issue …
20-777 In Re Darren Heyman 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment This case provides this Court with multiple instances for it to ground the criteria by which presiding judges, with different active relationships wit…
20-6360 Robert Hughes Wilkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-rights detainee-rights due-process health-conditions interlocutory-appeal pandemic-considerations pretrial-detention pretrial-release public-health Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Denial of Pretrial Release Conditions to Health Compromised Pretrial Detainee on I…
20-6256 Elet Valentine v. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied IFP amendment civil-procedure dismissal federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer law-of-the-case motion-to-dismiss service-of-process DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN CONTINUING TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS WHEN IT WAS DIVESTED OF JURISDICTION ON JANUARY 8, 2019, AND CONFERRED TO THE TENTH C…
20-5764 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Granted IFP counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion Did the Ninth Circuit error by finding no basis for Interlocutory Appeal, (at 9th Cir. No. 02-80106) And after judgment refusing to allow petitioner t…
20-331 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. District of Columbia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-14 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) abuse-of-discretion district-court domestic-emoluments emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments interlocutory-appeal legal-error mandamus motion-to-dismiss presidential-immunity 1. Whether a writ of mandamus is appropriate because, contrary to the holding of the court of appeals, the district court's denial of the President's …
20-5446 Jin H. Zheng v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order has previously been granted the Government (in a separate case) by the Seventh Circuit. Petitioner…
19-1447 Yehudi Manzano v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731…
19-8151 Michael John Alcocer Roa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-denial criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process interlocutory-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic Does an interlocutory appeal is a critical stage? If yes, does a denial of counsel during an interlocutory appeal constitutes a violation of Sixth Ame…
19-7796 Kevin T. Hawkins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit vindictive-prosecution Does the Ninth Circuit circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particular when it results in depriving an individual due pr…
19-7747 Christopher Robert Sueiro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment interlocutory-appeal self-representation sixth-amendment 1. Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine, a criminal defendant may appeal an interlocutory order denying the defendant's r…
19-7740 Yolanda Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-dismissal civil-rights collateral-order disability disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion judicial-process motion-denial reasonable-accommodation Did the Court of Appeals commit legal error and abuse their discretion when denying Petitioner's appeal of the district courts denial of her motions r…
19-1041 Rostislav Khrapko v. Kristin Splain, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-corruption interlocutory-appeal standing 1. Whether discrimination with no legitimate rationale, motivated by government corruption violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United State…
19-1025 City of Ferguson, Missouri v. Keilee Fant, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal required-entity rule-19 section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-law 1. An interlocutory appeal lies from a denial of sovereign immunity to protect the sovereign's dignitary interests. Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 19, a case may …
19-679 Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force 1) Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense (placing the burden on the defendant to raise and prove it) or whether it is a pleading requir…
19-624 Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones qualified-immunity seventh-circuit (1) Whether the Seventh Circuit's renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners' interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995)…
19-614 Cesar Vizcarra, et al. v. Monica Ortiz, Individually and as Co-Successor in Interest to Decedent Christian Pena, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby armed-suspect civil-rights excessive-force interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones law-enforcement mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment taser use-of-force 1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995) foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und…
19-6394 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent I. Courts of Appeals may exercise jurisdiction over collateral orders. Petitioner appealed a District Court's Memorandum Order under the collateral or…
19-6335 James Morris Balagia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine counsel-of-choice disability-accommodation interlocutory-appeal legal-review reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1978 right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140, 126 S.Ct. 2557, 165 L.Ed.2d 409 (2006) abrogate Flanagan v. United States, 465 U.S. 259 (1984) and…
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…
19-6188 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment grand-jury-indictment-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN FAILING TO ASSUME INTERLOCUTORY APPELLATE JURISDICTION OVER PETITIONER 'S FIFTH AMENDMENT GRAND…
19-390 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice 1. Whether district court orders dedicate any section of the opinion(s) to deny petitioner's Civil RICO 18 U.S.C. 1961-1964, in the verified complaint…
19-5784 Michael Villecco v. Daniel W. Stark, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process interlocutory-appeal standing Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying the appointment of counsel in civil cases.
19-215 Darrel Conell Nevels v. Piggly Wiggly Corporation, et al. Alabama 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process gross-negligence interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction premises-liability qualified-immunity 1. In qualified liability cases, Supreme court prece dent shows an Appellate court has Jurisdiction to hear a Rights to Due Process, Gross Negligence,…
19-20 William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den…
18A1362 Marshall Leon Watkins v. Nurse Jones, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction Question not identified.
18-9335 Francisco Illarramendi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton In the context of a Motion for Summary Affirmance of a District Court decision, should lower courts follow the mandate of this Supreme Court - most re…
18-9170 Cynthia Ortiz v. Charles Perry, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1292 abuse-of-discretion ambiguity appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-dispute objections transfer venue-transfer Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider for Interlocutory Appeal, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a) (1) and (b), denial of Injunctive Relief, …
18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl…
18-1330 Gavin B. Davis v. Timothy G. O'Connor Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-disclosures civil-rights civil-rights-removal due-process interlocutory-appeal parallel-claims removal removal-action state-criminal-proceeding Whether (a) a State-to-Federal Removal Action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1443, expressly reserved for supplemental jurisdiction inside of (b) a 42 U.S.C.…
18-8535 Daniel Arthur Heleva v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-waiver jurisdiction prosecutorial-effectiveness prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-overreach right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion waiver-of-constitutional-rights waiver-of-rights WHERE STATE STATUTES PROVIDE PRE-TRIAL REMEDIES FOR PROSECUTORIAL OVERREACHING BY INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL, DOES DEFENSE COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO PERFECT THAT…
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment 1.)The Court of Appeal is a Court of Law. The Court reviews the trial courts and lower appellate tribunal's legal rulings for error. Did Harmful legal…
18-969 Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-25 Dismissed circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal 1. Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption that all class members were injured by …
18-724 City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture 1. Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny th…
18-6764 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does the "presumption of prejudice" recognized in Roe v. FloresOrtega , 528 U.S. 470 (2000), apply where a criminal defendant instructs his trial coun…
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power (1) Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege…
18-6507 Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECIDED IN BERGER THE JUDGE TO RETIRE FROM THE CASE WHEN THE AFFIANT BELIEVES THAT THE JUDGE HAS A PERSONAL BIAS OR PR…
18-110 Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV Eighth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force 1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995) foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und…