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25-6735 May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-procedure default-judgment judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct procedural-rules writ-of-certiorari 1. Supreme Court Rule 20 and Rules of Judicial Conduct Rule 1.1, "a judge(s) shall comply with the law, including the Code of Judicial Conduct ". In r…
25-6506 John Wesley Patton v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Louisiana 2026-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights district-court judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal Could a Louisiana District Judge, namely, Steven C. Grefer, 24th Judicial District Court, in Division "J" in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana be considered…
25-6139 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-prosecution due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal reasonable-person-standard In the recusal context, would a reasonable person conclude that a judge could remain impartial during a conspiracy prosecution of a defendant when the…
25-5855 In Re Caleb McGillvary 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3rd-circuit conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus 1. Should the writ of mandamus issue to require Circuit Judge Michael A. Chagares to recuse himself from the instant habeas corpus proceedings, when e…
25-5231 Joseph-Allen Davis v. OM SRP, LLC Ohio 2025-07-29 Denied IFP constitutional-violation disciplinary-counsel due-process ex-parte-communication judicial-ethics recusal-standard Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court judge, previously disciplined for ex parte communication, en…
24-7437 Kaveh L. Afrasiabi v. President and Fellows of Harvard College Massachusetts 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process harvard-university judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-fairness 1. Whether a presiding justice presiding over a case involving Harvard University as a defendant should have recused himself from the case due to the …
24A988 Carlos Moore v. Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance Mississippi 2025-04-16 Presumed Complete extrajudicial-speech first-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-ethics judicial-removal racial-justice Question not identified.
24-6904 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Garmin International, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process financial-conflict judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics pro-se-plaintiff rule-60-motion Whether the District Court in Kansas denied pro se Plaintiff due process when it declined to file Plaintiff's Rule 60(b)(6) motion requesting the Cour…
24-944 Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Relisted (2) conflict-of-interest due-process investment-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation 28 U.S.C. § 455 outlines the grounds for disqual ification of judges and magistrates due to potential biases or conflicts of interest. This Honorable …
24-6580 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics judicial-recusal 1. Should not a Judge have recused himself, reference 28 U.S.C. §455 (b)(2), from prosecutions and sentencing of the Petitioner, and his Companies, wh…
24-747 Erik Cooper v. Tennessee, et al. Tennessee 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) agency-policy court-rules disciplinary-proceedings judicial-ethics legal-accountability procedural-integrity Whether the public can maintain trust or confidence in a state supreme court if the court ignores its own rules and its agency's own policies and rule…
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…
24A562 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, LLC Fifth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied conflict-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality mandamus-petition procedural-irregularity writ-of-possession Question not identified.
24-6042 David Leonard Wood v. Texas Texas 2024-11-26 Denied IFP atkins-standard criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics On his campaign website seeking election to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a judge provided a link to a news story praising his ruling that Davi…
24-6012 Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2024-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct 1. How must judicial legitimacy be restored when judicial ethics are ignored and deprecated by systemic policy of courts in California, while judicial…
24-5873 In Re Dana Albrecht 2024-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-influence judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus official-communication Recent national news coverage describes a current crisis in the Supreme Court of New Hampshire wherein Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi, a sitting J…
24-431 Danny Ray Dunn v. Caryn Alissa Dunn Georgia 2024-10-17 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal-motion Is a lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism, as evidenced by the Georgia Court of Appeal's ignoring the recusal motion and by the Georgia S…
24-324 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-infirmity due-process fair-trial judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics This petition exposes the vacuum in Florida's appellate judicial disqualification mechanism that creates a constitutional infirmity for all Floridians…
23-1350 Robert Korman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2024-06-27 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process extrajudicial-evidence judicial-bias judicial-bias-and-prejudice judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics legal-procedure recusal Whether proof of a judge's commission of bias and prejudice against a litigant in a case alone mandates his immediate disqualification and reversal of…
23-1313 Natin Paul v. The Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation Texas 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-contempt due-process due-process,criminal-contempt,sixth-amendment,stan habeas-corpus judicial-ethics sixth-amendment A Texas court permitted a financially interested civil party's lawyer to prosecute his opposing party, petitioner Natin Paul, for criminal contempt. T…
23-7758 In Re Janice Wolk Grenadier 2024-06-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accountability judicial-accountability judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency oversight public-trust transparency 1. Judges play a crucial role in upholding justice and the rule of law within a society. However, like any position of power, judges are not immune to…
23-7555 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure due-process federal-defender judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review Should a court of appeals review a judge's denial of a motion to recuse de novo or for an abuse of discretion? Did Judge Brown himself created the ap…
23-7101 Deborah A. Redman v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process ethical-lapses free-speech judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation procedural-trap standing May federal judges reframe and distort Petitioner's arguments so they can knock them down and dismiss her case? May federal judges ensnare Petitioner…
23-966 Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release 1. Whether or not 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges, with apparent intent to issue new cross-designations each year, in pe…
23-823 Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing 1. Whether enforcing the statutory requirement of the appearance of conflict-of-interest, 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), will restore the public's recordlow conf…
23-816 In Re Shiva Akula 2024-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue (1) Does the law demand that the district court judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana are obligated to disc…
23-6284 David Pontier v. Joseph Dang, dba Law Office of Joseph Dang Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest fdcpa federal-interpleader federal-jurisdiction interpleader judicial-ethics standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Question I United States Supreme Court bears responsibility to exercise authority over United States District Court Judges and provide an outline of …
23-6209 Eddie Savage v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2023-12-08 Denied IFP due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Can a judge failure to uphold the law during a trial demonstrate a spirit of ill-will or undue friendship, "actual bias" or favoritism toward one of t…
23-6027 Christy Kay Sweet v. Kathryn Sweet, et al. Nevada 2023-11-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP foreign-will inheritance-law judicial-ethics nrs-133 nrs-133a probate probate-law testamentary-intent will-contest will-requirements 1. Can a foreign will be admitted under NRS133 if it fails to comply with the requirements of a foreign will as set forth in NRS 133A? 2. Can any wil…
23-469 Andrew P. Witt v. United States Armed Forces 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-ethics military-justice military-sentencing prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing The prosecutor repeatedly exhorted the panel members to consider how their sentence would reflect on them personally and professional and suggested th…
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…
23-5651 Harry J. Williby v. Sergey Brin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 28-U.S.C-455(a) district-court due-process judge judicial-ethics recusal section-455 sua-sponte 1. Does a District Court Judge violate a litigant's right to Due Process, Under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, Section I, when …
23-5354 D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo Pennsylvania 2023-08-15 Denied IFP chief-clerk clerk-authority court-administration eastern-district-of-pennsylvania judicial-authority judicial-duties judicial-ethics legal-procedure procedural-irregularity separation-of-powers supreme-court 1. Is It Lawful For A Chief Clerk Of The Supreme Court Of The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania To Act And Perform Judicial Duties As A Judge Such As S…
22-1214 Mohsin Mazhar Syed v. Texas Texas 2023-06-15 Denied campaign-contributions caperton-precedent caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co constitutional-conflict due-process impartial-judge judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality recusal recusal-standards This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflicts engendered by the Caperton case concerning the due process right to an impartial judge.
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge 1. Did former Judge Henderson 's secret extramarital affair with a prosecutor in the same county in which he presided as judge create an "unconstitut…
22-7624 Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process When "former" Oklahoma County District Judge Timothy Henderson entered in a sexual relationship with the prosecuting attorney, was Mr. Smith's substan…
22-7601 Daniel E. Hall v. Twitter, Inc. First Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Was recusal mandatory under § 455(b)(1) where the trial judge's administrative activities had involved her in "disputed evidentiary facts? Was recusa…
22-6997 John B. Freitas v. Noel Wise, Judge, Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy domestic-terrorism due-process first-amendment free-speech government-corruption judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud sedition 1. No one is above the law. Local, State and Federal judges are not above the law. Federal judges who assume that they are above the law should realiz…
22-861 John F. Marchisotto v. Debra E. Canova, et al. New Jersey 2023-03-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate estate-trust judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct legal-procedure trust The Supreme Court of New Jersey denied Petitioners, Petition for Certification, from a decision of the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division…
22-6930 Robert Earl Hackney v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jury-trial standing writ-of-certiorari The questions before this Court is asked with impartialities on whether it can be presumed given the facts underlined in this writ, that if a petition…
22-782 Carol Pulliam v. University of Southern California California 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal standing takings Do state court trial judges, court of appeal justices and supreme court justices "war against the (United States) Constitution" by denying state litig…
22-6703 Earnest A. Davis v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. California 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-accommodation case-dismissal civil-proceedings court-procedure criminal-reporting due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics racial-bias 1) Are judges in a trial court and justices in an appeals court and state supreme court in civil proceedings required to report direct evidence of cri…
22-6701 In Re Astarte Davis 2023-02-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion accountability civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct public-importance vexatious-litigant 1. Whether the Respondents decisions in Astarte's case is non-judicial conduct under color of law and constitution, failed in their judicial ethics, a…
22-6254 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality-standard judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal media-bias media-coverage recusal Whether numerous local and national media reports, which brought facts to light that have caused the public to question the district court's impartial…
22-458 TIG Insurance Company v. ExxonMobil Oil Corporation Second Circuit 2022-11-15 Dismissed 28-usc-455 appellate-review financial-conflict judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal legal-procedure liljeberg-test public-confidence-in-judiciary In Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corporation, 486 U.S. 847 (1988), this Court set forth a three-factor test to determine whether it is appr…
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency 1. Should a final report of a chapter 7 bankruptcy case be divided into five parts thus depriving the debtor of transparency so as to prevent errors, …
22-246 Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Amici (4) blind-trust financial-interest harmless-error judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp stock-divestment 28 U.S.C. §455(f) aims to preserve judicial resources and avoid the harsh consequences of recusal when a minor financial interest is discovered after …
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…
21-1575 Geoffrey M. Young v. Jeremy Mattox, Judge, Circuit Court of Kentucky, 14th Judicial Circuit Kentucky 2022-06-21 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure clerk court-clerk judicial-discretion judicial-ethics mandamus ministerial-duties prohibition 1. Does any circuit court judge have the authority or discretion to prevent the clerk of the circuit court from properly performing her ministerial du…
21-1424 Marjana Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan Michigan 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) due-process external-influence fair-trial judicial-ethics jury-misconduct jury-tampering prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Is it an external influence-on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior , secret contacts before the trial starts? Is it …
21-7658 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether The Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment of the…
21-1257 Brian K. Evans, as Administrator of the Estate of Helen Marie Bousquet v. Ronald A. Marvin, et al. Massachusetts 2022-03-16 Denied appearance-of-impropriety conflict-of-interest due-process interests-of-justice judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice recusal 1. Was it appropriate for a judge to conceal that he was married to a doctor admitted to practice in the very hospital Plaintiff was suing in a medica…
21-7304 Wilfredo Torres v. New York City Police Department, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct presidential-power standing torture-allegations warrantless-search warrantless-surveillance Whether United States Judge Ronnie Abrams and United States Magistrate-Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox violated rules of ethics and my right to due process …
21-7193 Jose Yeyille v. Justin Cole Speigel Florida 2022-02-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics privileges-and-immunities recusal Whether a state trial court judge should be disqualified on Fourteenth Amendment due process, equal protection, and privileges and immunities grounds …
21-1176 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia 2022-02-25 Denied bribery civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Judge James C Clark, twice, after hearings had already completed, added handwritten rulings into pre-typed orders without notice and without due proce…
21-1026 Camille A. Walters v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation, et al. Wisconsin 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-ethics procedural-irregularity prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-requirement standing I. Was it illegal that the Wisconsin Supreme Court disregarded their own rules of internal operating procedures, which require all decisions of the co…
21-6777 Carol Garrard, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied IFP appearance-of-impropriety civil-rights due-process first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics paupers-penalty standing 1. Neither an allegation of infra-judicial acts of bias, nor proof of acts of bias, is an 'essential element ' of the appearance of impropriety, and i…
21-929 Marie Henry v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2021-12-23 Denied Response Waived bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech integrated-bar judicial-ethics keller-v-state-bar-of-california standing 1. Whether this Court's First Amendment speech and petitioning precedents on the fundamental constitutional right to access the court as expressed in …
21-6608 Wilfredo Torres v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights cointelpro domestic-assassinations domestic-surveillance due-process ethics judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct standing Whether U.S. Judge Edgardo Ramos and U.S. Magistrate-Judge Katharine Parker violated rules of ethics and my right to due process of law when they lied…
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-6522 Mithun Banerjee v. Bank of America, N.A. Maryland 2021-12-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial judicial-corruption judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-recusal recusal 1) Will the Justice be served by the US Supreme Court by providing a fair trial to Plaintiff where the Circuit Court Judges are Distance Cousin Brothe…
21-784 In Re Melba L. Ford 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct conscience-based-duty court-discretion due-process equitable-relief fraud fraud-allegations judicial-duty judicial-ethics petition-review standing Question I. Do Justices owe a mandatory , non-discretionary, equitable, conscience-based moral duty to themselves, to all Federal Bar attorneys and …
21-753 Trina L. Janura v. John J. Janura, Jr. West Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct recusal 1. Did the non-disclosure and non-recusal from either the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals both violate the petitioner's ri…
21-6084 Jacquelyne Jones v. Nicole Jobe Kansas 2021-10-27 Denied IFP canon-of-judicial-ethics civil-rights court-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding judicial-canon judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-rules state-courts supreme-court-precedent DID THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRESENDENT FAILED TO FOLLOW THE LAW AND RULES OF THE JUDICIARY IN CONDON…
21-5907 In Re Matthew James Leachman 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance The Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory provisio…
21-5643 Kaon-Jabbar East El v. United Parcel Service, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias judicial-ethics race-classification religious-accommodation religious-discrimination standing title-vii In Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress generally prohibited private employers from discriminating against an individual "because of su…
21-360 Joseph Constant v. DTE Electric Company, aka DTE Energy, aka Detroit Edison Company, aka DTE, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights contract-conspiracy fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct rico rico-act I Did Judge Kumar and the Executives of the Judges' RICO Enterprise made frauds upon the court when1. They litigated cases for DTE under the DTE-to-En…
21-5390 Jeanette S. R. Lipinski v. Yolanda Castaneda, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-administration due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-disability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal Question not identified.
21-5254 Baboucar Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. New Hampshire 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal May a party who appears before a state judge who at the same time is donating to the political campaign of the defendant chairman be entitled to a new…
21-8 Wilma M. Pennington-Thurman v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-rights due-process fraud-on-court judicial-ethics preclusion priority-rules standing 1. A finding of fraud on the court is reserved for material, intentional misrepresentations that could not have been discovered earlier. Do instances …
20-8423 Wilfredo Torres v. New York Legal Assistance Group, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights court-corruption due-process extrajudicial-activities judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct law-clinic pro-se-litigation recusal standing Whether Southern District of New York federal Judge Ronnie Abrams, who supports government hit lists (SCOTUS 19-71), the Deep State (SDNY 13CV7173), a…
20-8249 Brittian Willie Young v. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-ethics standing Question not identified.
20-1491 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-04-26 Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court A- Is being a stakeholder, not just a member, of an organization which solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a violation of the…
20-7650 In Re Bo Zou 2021-04-02 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion contempt copyright-infringement judicial-discretion judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct liljeberg-standard magistrate-disqualification perjury procedural-irregularity 1. How did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit disregard and ignore the facts and factual evidence, and prohibition criteria, whi…
20-1361 Regina B. Heisler, Individually and as the Executrix of the Succession of Frederick P. Heisler v. Girod LoanCo, LLC Louisiana 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) caperton-standard civil-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct loan-enforcement standing supreme-court-review takings vulture-fund 1. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err by failing to enforce Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009) ("Caperton"), as to District Judge …
20-7354 In Re Michael Robinson 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct mandamus self-representation The issue here goes beyond a miscarriage of justice. It's lower courts ' and it's officers as such in this case District Attorney Matulewicz blatant …
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it refused to follow the unanimous holdings of the Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit…
20-949 Angelica Christina Limcaco v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied 28-usc-455 court-impartiality court-payments extrajudicial-source judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics liljeberg-v-health-services liteky-v-us procedural-standards statutory-interpretation The first question presented is whether the language "might reasonably be questioned" under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) can be judicially restricted to require…
20-954 Ohio, ex rel. Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. v. Maureen O’Connor, et al. Ohio 2021-01-14 Denied civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal panel-composition procedural-fairness recusal standing I. Whether it constitutes a violation of the Due Process Clause when a majority of judges on a judicial panel are also named parties in a case before …
20-6364 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing statutory-compliance Whether a case must proceed to final judgment with a judge who harbors actual bias against a litigant in order to obtain appellate review of the judge…
20-6114 Shong-Ching Tong v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2020-10-23 Denied IFP california-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeal due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct standing supreme-court-california 1. Whether Supreme Court of California, En Banc, had abused their positions denying Petitioner 's filing of, S262227, 'Petition For Writ of Mandate/Pr…
20-5701 Prakash Narayan v. Rabindra Prasad California 2020-09-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-bias due-process judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-corruption judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-transparency legal-procedure procedural-irregularity 1. Why are judges corrupted in California? 2. Why California judges are racist? 3. Why don 't judges don 't follow laws that are on the books? 4. W…
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"?
20-2 Hector L. Valentin v. City of Rochester, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived brady-rule civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-bias due-process judicial-conflict judicial-ethics pro-se-litigation suppression-of-evidence FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED. Should the Brady Rule versus a self-decided Judicial ethical issue by a seriously conflicted Federal Judge and involving the…
19-8785 Brandon Williams v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics qualified-immunity standing I. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism which seemed …
19-8708 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Presidio Bank Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-ethics patent patent-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether this Court's duty to enforce its Governing Precedents as declared by Chief Justice J. Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck (1810) and Trustees of D…
19-8496 C. K. J. v. M. J. T. Pennsylvania 2020-05-19 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights domestic-relations due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal judicial-review standing 1. Is it lawful for judges to evaluate a judge recusal on themselves? 2. Should Domestic Relations Code (23 PA.C.S.) and Judicial Code (42 PA.C. S), …
19-1224 Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim California 2020-04-16 Denied campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal I. The public record shows that Judge Susan Greenberg of the California Superior Court of San Mateo County accepted campaign contributions from Respon…
19-7541 Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial 1. Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his…
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…
19-7176 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion bias due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief recusal trial-procedure Should recusal of a judge be allowed during the post conviction relief phase if the prejudice and bias of the trial judge is apparent on the face of t…
19-7172 Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks, Judge, Assistant United States District …
19-6983 Kwasi Andrade McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure de-novo-review discretionary-standard due-process hearing-requirement judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics mandatory-recusal objective-standard standard-of-review Question not identified.
19-6974 Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation In her short tenure as U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York, the Honorable Ronnie Abrams has presided over a number of cases that …
19-681 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing 1. Can a Federal Court deny an attorney admission to the bar of the court, as a punishment for the alleged violation of ABA Model Rule of Professional…
19-6695 Ilana Rigwan v. Jordan Lee Neus Florida 2019-11-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure court-records docket-alteration evidence-tampering judicial-accountability judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency legal-accountability public-trust Q: Should Judges be allowed to alter dockets and go unpunished? (Many) Judges don't base their judgements on the merits of the case, include all of th…
19-5961 Mark Whitehead v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove…
19-212 Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston Louisiana 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing 1. Whether Armand Roos ' participation as Plaintiff 's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Pro …
18-9841 Charles Hines v. JTH Tax, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-oath due-process federal-courts judicial-accountability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-oath justice-system legal-proceedings oath standing supreme-court Question not identified.
18-9669 Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association California 2019-06-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing The Justices of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 refused to recuse themselves from the appeal of a judgment against Petitioners…
18-9668 Miguel Angel Arias v. Ashley B. Moody, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud fraud-abuse government-immunity government-misconduct judicial-ethics official-immunity official-misconduct qualified-immunity takings Does a government official, e.g., .a Judge, or a CIA agent maintain their immunity after it has been discovered that they use their position to commit…
18-8750 Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal Must a judge who had a improper ex parte communication with the prosecuting team off-docket, with no in camera review, and directed the prosecuting to…
18-1216 R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. Florida 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis Question not identified.
18-1020 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Communicar, Inc., et al. New York 2019-02-06 Denied case-consolidation civil-procedure Conflict-of-interest consolidation Discovery due-process Examination-before-trial judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-review pro-se-litigation standing subpoena Subpoena-Duces-Tecum Three cases bearing individual case index numbers, CV-092419-1IJQU, CV-027168-12/QU, CV-032361-12/QU, court fees paid, different filing dates, grandfa…
18-7758 Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar Texas 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial? Has Mary Cummins been deprived of due process by use of a retired Texas v…
18-7463 Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law In the present case before the Court, the question is asked if a federal judge or justice condones the following items: I) a fraudulent misrepresentat…
18-800 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2018-12-21 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appeal-dismissal california-rules-of-court conflict-of-interest court-procedure dismissal due-process fraud insufficient-records judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct notice procedural-deception The questions presented in this case are: 1. Does due process require reversal of the dismissal of appealbased on the fact that the California 6th Di…
18-7104 Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation May the government avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument information not …
18-7030 S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia 2018-12-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Question not identified.
18-6643 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision Sobhy Iskander, a state prisoner proceeding in forma pauperis r extraordinary circumstance moves this motion on a writ of certi- orari that a state co…
18-577 David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata Premise of the Question: A Federal Judge is a Board member and Board advisor of a major social organization. The defendant in a case being heard by th…
18-6361 Bob Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense in violation of the Judge's ethical canons and in front of the jury impeded Mr.…
18-497 Jean Coulter v. Cathy Bissoon, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal rule-of-law separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Have the Courts' refusal to recuse and noncompliance with criminal/civil statutes, Case Law and their Code of Conduct and the Rule of Law - resulted i…
18-372 Ryan Joe Coddington v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-21 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality prosecutor-conflict prosecutorial-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Is a criminal defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial before a fair and impartial tribunal denied when the tribunal is linked by marriage to …
18-6044 Richard James Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-19 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania Does the right to due process guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and upheld by the precedent of Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S.Ct 189…
18-6031 Noah R. Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review direct-appeal due-process evidence-misstatement evidence-of-record evidence-tampering judicial-animosity judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-review supreme-court-vacated Whether former Circuit Court Chief Judge Richard A. Posner misstated the evidence of record in the Green remand opinion, as a means to the end of just…
18-344 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2018-09-17 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts american-inns-of-court attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest court-of-appeal due-process judge-disclosure judicial-ethics recusal right-to-appeal social-relationship Does due process require reversal of the dismissals as Presiding Justice Mary J. Greenwood failed to recuse or disclose her conflicts of interests? I…
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a…
18-112 Vance D. Day, Judge, Circuit Court of Oregon, Third Judicial District v. Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability Oregon 2018-07-25 Denied Amici (2) 14th-amendment constitutional-defenses due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech judicial-ethics oregon-supreme-court original-jurisdiction procedural-due-process (1) Whether it is a Due Process violation for a court of original jurisdiction to refuse to consider, or to reject without sufficient analysis, substa…
23A1158 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit Denied canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.