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25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25A700 Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-16 Application circuit-split federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice legislative-fact statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-244 Demetric Simon v. Officer Keith Gladstone, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment judicial-notice law-enforcement-conspiracy statute-of-limitations In a now proven criminal conspiracy framing Petitioner but likely undiscoverable before Federal indictment on Conspiracy to Deprive Civil Rights, shou…
25-222 Victor Everette Silvers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-notice maritime-jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Certain federal criminal offenses under Title 18 of the United States Code, including under § 1(b) (murder), § 1113 (attempted murder or manslaughter)…
24A1227 Victor Everette Silvers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jury-trial sixth-amendment special-maritime-jurisdiction 1. This case presents an important question regarding a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the…
24-6558 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-notice statutory-interpretation witness-testimony 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in including the Government's post-trial misinterpretation of Florida Statute § 794.05 and 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), …
24-824 Bernice M. Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee of the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust Mississippi 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) chancery-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice rule-56 summary-judgment This case presents one of first impression and of national importance and significance because it conflicts with well-established rules and principles…
24-642 Lamel Jeffery, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-scrutiny curfew-restrictions due-process emergency-powers fundamental-rights judicial-notice The freedom of movement is "a necessary concomitant of the stronger Union the Constitution created." U.S. v. Guest, 383 U.S. 745, 758 (1966). It is "a…
24A489 Bernice Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee for the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust Mississippi 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete divorce-decree evidence-rules judicial-notice property-settlement summary-judgment trust-interpretation Question not identified.
24-444 Otto L. Haselhoff, Individually and as Trustee v. City of Santa Monica, California California 2024-10-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violation due-process judicial-notice notice-requirement property-rights takings-clause The City of Santa Monica placed a "historic" designation on a home owned by Petitioner's predecessor without ever providing notice of either the heari…
24-5696 Gregory Savoy v. Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland Maryland 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP chemical-lobotomy constitutional-rights customary-international-law due-process federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-notice Under united rules of evidence (state and federal,) can the courts of America deny a request for judicial notice of a fact "whose accuracy cannot be r…
23A1121 Gary Pisner v. Robert McCarthy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete district-court due-process judicial-notice motion-clarification oral-arguments procedural-defects Question not identified.
23-1211 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-discovery federal-claims fraud judicial-notice prima-facie-evidence rule-60-motion standing void-order Petitioner presents the following questions to this Court and asserts all below should be answered in the affirmative: 1. Whether the Court below mis…
23-7257 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice premeditated-murder self-defense use-of-force witness-testimony A) Whether the jury used unreasonable facts to prove a premeditated design. Where there was sufficient [provocation] to find Petitioner not guilty. B…
23-6676 Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo v. Bestway USA Inc., et al. Arizona 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-service evidentiary-hearing interlocutory-decision judicial-notice parol-evidence res-judicata service-of-process settlement-agreement settlement-agreements void-order May a Court take judicial notice of another Court's Order that is void due to deficient service; where the agreements that gave rise to the dispute we…
23-6014 Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing 1. Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan la…
23-5715 Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consular-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice national-identity sovereign-status standing state-law treaty-rights Question not identified.
23-5260 Mary Beth Harcrow v. Clyde Harcrow, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-enforcement judicial-notice protective-order vawa Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10(a), the Question Presented herein is whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in adopting the ruling of the …
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court CAN A STATE TRIBUNAL DEPRIVE LITIGANTS TO THAT TRIBUNAL EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AND EVEN HANDED JUSTICE BASED UPON A COMMITMENT OFFENSE? DOES THE…
22-1141 Gary Pisner v. Marla Rubinstein, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied civil-procedure cross-jurisdictional-preclusion defamation defamation-privilege documentary-evidence evidence forum-non-conveniens judicial-notice litigation-privilege procedural-requirements 1. Fed. R. Evid. Rule 201 and caselaw gives the parties the ability to enter documentary evidence through judicial notice; under what conditions can a…
22-7408 Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-denial habeas-corpus judicial-notice post-conviction postconviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation wrongful-conviction The Wisconsin Supreme Court Should Not Have EX PARTE discriminatively continued with the 2018-ongoing DENIALS OF the UNHEARD PETITIONS FILED FOR JUDIC…
22-995 Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil…
22-845 Robert Thornton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process duty-to-assist judicial-notice judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits In the veterans-benefits system, Congress has provided that an otherwise-final agency decision is sub ject to one review on appeal to the Secretary. …
22-5444 Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied IFP expert-witness indigent-litigants judicial-notice medical-evidence medical-information pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-201 rule-706 undue-burden 1. Does requiring an expert witness to present medical information, pursuant to Fed.R.Evid. Rule 201 Judicial Notice, create an undue burden on the co…
21-8280 James Michael Forney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process electronic-dockets federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-notice procedural-dismissal rule-4 section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, 28 U.S.C. foll. § 2254, which prohibits a district court from dismissing a habeas corpus pet…
21-6675 Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness fed-r-evid-706 indigent-party judicial-notice medical-facts pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the appellate courts should apply case law established under Fed.R.Evid. 706, which denies the appointment of expert witnesses because of …
21-831 Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation 1. Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case? 2. Must a District Court find f…
21-449 Bilal Abdul Kareem v. William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights d-c-circuit due-process government-media government-transparency judicial-notice online-publication standing sua-sponte technology WHETHER THE D.C. CIRCUIT'S DECISION TO DISMISS THE CASE BASED ON DISPUTED FACTS NOTICED SUA SPONTE AND WITHOUT DUE PROCESS WAS IMPROPER. WHETHER THE …
21-5014 John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain?
20-8140 Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas Whether, in pursuit of his first federal habeas corpus petition, Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling during the d…
20-1014 Organic Cannabis Foundation, LLC, dba Organicann Health Center v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied administrative-law due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment judicial-notice jurisdictional-deadline tax-law tax-procedure L Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) Filing Deadline jurisdictional (such that it is not subject to equitable tolling) under curren…
20-784 Jeffry Schmidt v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-review arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-standard disability-evaluation disability-ratings judicial-notice medical-evidence military-compensation military-disability new-and-material-evidence veterans-affairs veterans-disability 1. Did Federal Circuits, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Refuse to Recognize that the U.S. Military and the …
20-764 Mark E. O'Brien v. U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust Connecticut 2020-12-03 Denied due-process foreclosure foreclosure-procedure judicial-notice loan-servicer mortgage-note new-evidence procedural-defect standing standing-challenge testimony Were the Defendants ' due process rights violated when they were not given notice of the foreclosure proceeding? Were the Defendants ' due process ri…
20-5696 Dan Grandberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure forfeiture-rule habeas-corpus judicial-notice limitations-period procedural-waiver state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction (a) Would the ordinary Forfeiture rule, as codified in the Civil Rules, apply to the limitations period of the 28 U.S.C. § 2254? (b) Would a § 2244(d…
20-230 Donald L. Baker v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process judicial-notice judicial-review patent patent-law pro-se-litigation retaliation 1. Whether U.S. Agencies, in particular the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), may under law render shoddy, arbitrary, capricious and dishonest…
20-121 Marshall Spiegal v. Michael C. Kim Seventh Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel debt-collection debt-collector-allegations debtor-conduct direct-connection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa judicial-notice statutory-interpretation transaction-nexus The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") covers debts "arising out of" certain transactions. Does "arising out of" require a "direct" connecti…
20-112 Sherry Hernandez v. PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors, LLC, et al. California 2020-08-03 Denied Relisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-documents judicial-notice law-of-case law-of-the-case mers-system notice wrongful-foreclosure Did the California Superior Court and the Court of Appeal deprive Petitioner of her right to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by Re…
20-5083 Telly Kavantzas v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court electronic-dockets federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-notice rule-4 rules-governing-section-2254-cases section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, 28 U.S.C. foll. § 2254, which prohibits a district court from dismissing a habeas corpus pet…
19-8533 Michael A. Lajeunesse v. Megan Anne Chambers, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 standing 1. WHETHER OR NOT I CAN PETITION THE COURT FOR RELIEF AND OR AN INJUNCTION UNDER OUR CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTE TITLE 42 USCS § 1983, 1985, OR 1986 WHEN TH…
19-8302 Richard H. Morrison v. Florida Florida 2020-04-19 Denied IFP burden-of-proof due-process habitual-offender hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-notice preponderance-of-evidence prison-release-reoffender sentencing-enhancement It is true the state has the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant qualifies as a PRR as defined in the statute Flor…
19-8133 Jorge A. Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation causation constitutional-rights conviction-notice criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process health-care-fraud judicial-notice statutory-interpretation 1. WHETHER THE 'BUT-FOR' TEST OF GENERAL CAUSATION IS SYNONYMOUS TO THE STATUTORIAL ELEMENT OF ACTUAL CAUSATION IN THOSE STATUTES LIKE 18 USCS § 1347H…
19-902 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1846 civil-conspiracy collateral-order collateral-orders constitutional-protection criminal-complaints defamation judicial-notice pa-constitution trial-court-discretion 1. The questions posed in the course of appellate actions at FD-07-000190 were made cognizable by stipulation of all represented parties. Each questio…
19-7174 John H. Stewart v. William Honsal, as Public Administrator of Humboldt County, California, et al. California 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP domestic-violence due-process evidence-admission fair-trial hearsay judicial-notice property-rights 1. Was Petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process of law violated by an unfair trial in which the trial Judge ruled "that any documents …
18-9816 Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing 1)- WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS RIGHT'S SECURED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND DUE PROCE…
18-8719 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. A jury convicted petitioner of federal assault offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 113. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit …
18A1005 Jiying Wei v. University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-03 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure judicial-notice pro-se-pleading res-judicata seventh-amendment Question not identified.
18-7060 Brian William Schumaker v. Hector Joyner, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process judicial-notice jury-instructions prudential-consideration theory-of-defense void-for-vagueness WHETHER the lower courts, hearing the petitioner's Constitutional claims of "actual innocence" and "theory of defense" instructions delivered to the t…
18-6720 Joseph Witchard v. Bryan M. Antonelli, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-procedure due-process false-charges judicial-notice prosecutorial-misconduct standing THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE U.S. FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ARE DENYING PETITIONER EFFECTIVE ACCESS TO THE COUR…
18-520 WeConnect, Incorporated v. Brooks Goplin Seventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice standing sua-sponte unauthenticated-website website-authentication Whether Federal Rules of Evidence 201, 901, and 902 and principles of due process forbid a district court to, sua sponte, take judicial notice of info…
18-6133 Bernardo Olivares-Cepeda v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-notice notice service-of-process supervisory-power Question not identified.
18-5635 Charles Alfred Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court-proceedings strickland-standard [1] DID THE DISTRICT COURT SIDE STEP THE COA DETERMINATION UNDER §2253(c) WHEN IT DENIED JACKSONS APPEAL AND HIS COA AND JUSTIFIED IT'S DENIAL OF HIS …