judicial-impartiality

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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…
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…
25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa…
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…
25-360 J. P. v. J. N. New Jersey 2025-09-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights judicial-corruption judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal 1. Did corruption within the NJ judiciary violate the petitioner-plaintiff's constitutional rights? 2. Why was the Appellate team switched to all ind…
25-260 Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter First Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 1. Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate have been disrupted so significantly that they ca…
24-1231 Andrew Dowd v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process harmless-error judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-conduct recusal restitution 1. Whether a district judge impermissibly blends the judicial and prosecutorial roles such that "his impartiality might reasonably be questioned," 28 …
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.
24-579 Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived ethics-commission expert-affidavit fifth-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-due-process Must a district court judge recuse himself in a criminal case pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§144 and 455 when provided a timely and sufficient expert affidav…
24-281 Kishna S. Minor v. Anne M. Heishman, Commissioner of Accounts Virginia 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest due-process fiduciary-oversight judicial-impartiality quasi-judicial-officer state-court-procedure It is a well-established maxim " aliquis non debet esse iudex in "—no one should be a judge in their own cause. The Commonwealth of Virginia, howeve…
24A121 Richard Lee Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court, et al. Arizona 2024-08-02 Presumed Complete due-process ex-parte fraud-allegations judicial-impartiality labor-law workplace-dispute Question not identified.
23-1348 In Re Charles Simon 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Three Judge Panel Two Page Order denied and rubber the Mandamus All Writs Act 28 U.S.C. section 1651, consolidated with the appeal, ign…
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…
23-6209 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…
23A468 Deirdre Baker v. JEA Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied civil-rights-act judicial-impartiality procedural-due-process race-retaliation summary-judgment title-vii 1. Is it a violation of substantial rights under procedural due process of law when a district judge at the pretrial stage and subsequent circuit judg…
23-399 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2023-10-17 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act article-iii circuit-disqualification civil-rights civil-rights-claims constitutional-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality mandamus mandamus-relief standing May a U.S. circuit concede its [dis]qualification to adjudicate matters naming the Petitioner; after the majority of its judges in regular active serv…
23A321 Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence due-process innocence-claim judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief recanted-expert-testimony Question not identified.
23-66 Norbert A. King, II v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure child-sex-crimes due-process federal-appellate-practice judicial-impartiality military-judge military-justice prosecutorial-ethics record-on-appeal record-supplementation statutory-interpretation 1. The lower court endorsed the Government's supplementation of the "record" with new documents mid-appeal. Does the lower Court's decision, which dem…
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.
22-1049 Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. California 2023-04-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment color-of-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-impartiality lien real-property-rights wage-property Whether the lack of an impartial judges, and that the state judges, under color of law, without due process of law, deprived appellant of his wage pro…
22-1013 J. R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure Whether, when a person's liberty is at stake, the right to an impartial judge guaranteed by the Due Process Clause is violated where the trial judge a…
22-7164 Paul A. Bernard v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-30 Granted IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-review opposing-parties procedural-rules standing state-procedure substantive-rights Question not identified.
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…
22-6158 L. Powers v. Unclaimed Property, et al. Florida 2022-11-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process guardianship-dispute inheritance inheritance-rights judicial-impartiality judicial-technicality standing state-funds 1. Shall we send the wrong message to public that judges use illogical technicalities over interests of justice to cover for Florida Governor? 2. For…
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…
22-218 Steven Christopher Knapp v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-standards rule-8 standing 1) Does a judge of the United States have an unqualified, absolute right to nullify a complaint under Rule 8 based on length alone? 2) Did the Distri…
21-1147 Yehoram Uziel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights discrimination due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-extortion self-representation self-represented-litigant standing Can a judge ignore a party' challenge to his impartiality, maintain jurisdiction and abuse his adjudicative authority to extort the challenging party …
21-1103 Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied appeal circuit-court civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and more particularly, Circuit Judge Edward Carnes, who prepared the opinion f…
21-6638 Michael Lewis Gibbons v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment alleged-victim contradictory-testimony criminal-procedure due-process impartial-juror inconsistent-statements judicial-impartiality no-physical-evidence physical-evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony Given 1) Inconsistent statements by the alledged victim 2) At least one statement by the alledged victim that is not physically possible 3) The 2 main…
21-6636 Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality In Sending And Receiving Derogatory Eknails Of Female Abuse, Racism, Hom…
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…
21-710 Valerie Jackson v. Lupe Valdez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal standing statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may disregard this Court's precedent and the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 144, review and rebut the merits of an affidavit s…
21-628 Ebenezer K. Howe, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process irs judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant recusal Question 1: A. Do courts of appeal exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of disrespected, unr…
21-5806 Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt 1. Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram nobis relief should remain unresolved. 2. Whether the test used by the 1st circui…
21-230 William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg…
21-5035 Ronald Pyles v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2021-07-08 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation civil-rights due-process ethical-standards ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal witness-testimony QUESTION I: Isn't it true, that, under the "recusal standard " addressed in 28 U.S.C.S. §455(a); "what matters is not the reality of bias or prejudice…
20-7995 John C. Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-12 Denied IFP due-process emancipation graft judicial-bias judicial-impartiality private-prisons subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Does the state court have subject-matter jurisdiction in a trial wherein the judge of which shall receive extrajudicially paid pecuniary gain ("Graft"…
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…
20-7735 DeAndre Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2021-04-14 Denied IFP advocacy-appearance constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-breach evidentiary-issues fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion I. Did the trial court's questioning of multiple witnesses that essentially advocated strengthen the prosecution's and pierce the veil of Case judicia…
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 1. Whether, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as The Civil Rights Act of 1871 "Sect…
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error (1) Whether this Court's decision in Rippo v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 905 (2017) which concerns a structural error of the Constitutional denial of an impart…
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…
20-5180 Matthew J. Frawley v. Victoria L. Frawley Missouri 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal missouri-supreme-court-rules parental-rights recusal I. Whether the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals committed err by not finding Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights were violated by…
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT JUDGE"S, A FORMER PROSECUTOR OF APPELLANT'S PRIOR CRIMINAL TRIAL, REFUSAL TO RECUSE HIMSELF AND HIS SUBSEQUENT JUDICIAL PART…
19-8631 Claude Simpson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal personal-bias plea-agreement 1. Is it an abuse of discretion if a Judge does not recuse himself from presiding over a hearing in which a reasonable person would have a reasonable …
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…
19-822 Laurie A. White, Judge, Section A of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, et al. v. Alana Cain, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-conflict criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fines-and-fees judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality state-court-funding state-court-jurisdiction Does the federal court have jurisdiction to disqualify state criminal court judges from adjudicating matters, over which they have exclusive jurisdict…
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 …
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WHETHER THE STATE DISTRICT-COURT JUDGE VIOLATED THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 'S PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES CLAUSE AS WELL AS THE FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH…
19-6295 Antonio Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure Does a broad appeal waiver included in a plea agreement between a defendant and the United States preclude appellate review of the district court's fi…
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…
19-5459 Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1S 0 (§LiMiNal defendant Constftutfonaly entitle to a Fate Trial From ow Partial Sudae WHO TS NOT CORRUET to Preside and Cule aver his Trial Court Pro…
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…
18-9517 Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-06-03 Denied Relisted (7)IFP adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure Sam Pope, as elected prosecutor for Arkansas's Tenth Judicial District, brought charges against Kenneth Isom three times in the span of 13 months. Iso…
18-8848 Antyane Robinson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-16 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-standard due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality rippo-v-baker standard-of-review standing state-court state-court-review vacatur 1. Where a state court denied a judicial bias claim based on another state court's finding that the judge in question had not demonstrated actual bias…
18-8240 Howard Anthony Moniz v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard I, Should the State Circuit Court Judge be disqualified from ruling on a collateral appeal for relief from judgmint where he personally opposed post-c…
18-1016 Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules 1. Was the new standard from People v. Stevens, 498 Mich. 162, 869 N.W.2d 233 (2015), for determining whether a trial judge exhibited improper partial…
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…
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr…
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…
18-6649 Thelma R. Davis v. Brown & Dortch LLC, et al. Maryland 2018-11-13 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-rights judicial-impartiality partiality standing state-court-corruption unfair-treatment This case involves corruption within the state court system, injustice, conflict of interest, partiality, unfair treatment of Petitioner; the denial o…
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…
18-372 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 …
18-5020 In Re Lewis Brown 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error Is an individual, who is named an adverse party opponent, allowed to sit as a Judge over the very proceeding in which he is named a defendant, or is h…