judicial-recusal
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A877 | Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Application | criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus | Question not identified. | |
| 25A763 | Peter Szanto v. Evye Geller Szanto, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Application | appellate-review certiorari-extension judicial-bias judicial-recusal liteky-standard supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 25A737 | Frank Polo v. Scott Bernstein, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal procedural-fairness shotgun-pleading | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6365 | Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Pending | IFP | ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access | 1. Recusal and Void Orders Whether the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause permit a state judge to continue issuing substantive custody, cont… |
| 25-6160 | Pamela Short Powell, Individually and on Behalf of Diana Lynn Short, Margaret Julia Short, Daniel Alan Short, and Jack Warren Short, Jr. v. Anthony Decicco, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | IFP | fifth-circuit-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-conflict judicial-recusal procedural-irregularity sua-sponte-dismissal | A. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by not addressing whether the district court should have first ruled on a motion for recusals about several conflic… |
| 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… | |
| 25-5754 | Biobele Georgewill v. Joshua M. Ball, et al. | Tennessee | 2025-09-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-recusal professional-relationship | I. This case presents a substantial federal due process question. The Fourteenth Amendment requires an impartial tribunal. A judge who maintained a 14… |
| 25-355 | James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Rehearing | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | appellate-deference bankruptcy-proceedings judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus-review standard-of-review | 1. Should a judge's order declining to recuse be reviewed de novo or for abuse of discretion? 2. When a litigant seeks review of a decision not to re… |
| 25-5483 | Z. G. v. M. C. | Pennsylvania | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal | The question presented is whether a judge who made a number of troubling statements that appear to have been motivated by stigma and stereotypes assoc… |
| 25A176 | James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion de-novo-review judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-petition standard-of-review | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5275 | Kayla Williams v. Pennsylvania State University, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-recusal | 1. ) Does the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require public universities to allow accused students a meaningful opportunity to cross examine… |
| 25-5175 | Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. | Florida | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause | One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup… |
| 25-5089 | Veronica M. Johnson v. William S. Moore, Judge, Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal pro-se-plaintiff | 1. Whether the unprecedented conduct of all the sitting judges of the Portsmouth Circuit Court in entering a "sua sponte " joint administrative Recusa… |
| 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 … |
| 24-1193 | In Re Sean Murphy, et al. | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights judicial-recusal judicial-review procedural-due-process | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit clerks had the authority to render judgment on dispositive motions without judicial review or proper delegation? 2. Whet… | |
| 24-7156 | Michael S. Main v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | defendant-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal post-conviction preliminary-hearing procedural-due-process | Nantel rs rereed va G Caw, what-73. thedeahp oo thetcourt may j vest cohe..7 to. the claim———done veda mitsal of Heclajme)——_ LL Rs there Some bent oo… |
| 24-1118 | Dongmei Li v. Richard Peck, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal | 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), federal judges are statutorily disqualified from hearing cases whenever their "impartiality might reasonably be questione… |
| 24-6767 | Brandon Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a federal district judge's refusal to recuse himself after making statements prejudging the merits of ineffective assistance claims, displa… |
| 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… |
| 24-763 | In Re Bo Zou | 2025-01-17 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review conflict-of-interest court-jurisdiction judicial-recusal legal-ethics procedural-irregularity | 1. Whether district judge John D. Russell may hear his Client's Case after he left his former law firm only one month. 2. Whether the panel of the Te… | |
| 24-722 | Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. | Tennessee | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent | 1. According to Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. 1 (2016) ("Williams"), is Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court ("Rule 10B") a structura… |
| 24A626 | Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee | Tennessee | 2024-12-26 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-judge judicial-recusal structural-right | Because it is a structural constitutional right, can any litigant for any reason agree, by waiver or can a State for any reason forfeit any litigant's… | |
| 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… |
| 24-5977 | Sammy Lee Gibbs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2024-11-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction | ARE ALL JUDGES IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNITED STATES BOUND TO FOLLOW ALL THE ARTICLES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES? CAN AND STATE COURT DEP… |
| 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… | |
| 24A365 | Patrick Comack v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Presumed Complete | academic-conflict bias disability-claim judicial-recusal mandamus social-security | Question not identified. | |
| 24A364 | Debra Brown v. et Bank of America Corporation, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Presumed Complete | court-integrity due-process financial-conflict judicial-recusal mandamus section-455 | Question not identified. | |
| 24A280 | Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Presumed Complete | criminal-proceeding district-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5334 | Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. | Oklahoma | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-support constitutional-challenges criminal-procedure due-process judicial-recusal state-taxation | Whether a court of law can convict an American citizen of a criminal charge without a trial, if such citizen has pled not guilty, and such citizen has… |
| 24-166 | In Re Mawule Tepe | 2024-08-15 | Denied | due-process federal-bar-admission judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-recusal oath-of-office sixth-amendment | Under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, it is well established that: (i) a Judge who lacks an Oath of Office cannot preside over a case; … | ||
| 23-1318 | Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Holding Corporation, et al. | California | 2024-06-18 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process emotional-distress judicial-recusal recusal self-representation standing | 1.) Should Due Process of Law as mandated by the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment be afforded to self-represented litigant Plaintiff re… | |
| 23-1266 | Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. | Texas | 2024-06-04 | Denied | campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal | I. Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, as viewed… | |
| 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… |
| 23-7360 | Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination | I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the Third Circuit and Fourth Circuit concerning whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recus… |
| 23-1123 | In Re Lawyers For Fair Reciprocal Admission | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process first-amendment judicial-recusal local-court-rules local-rules rules-enabling-act supervisory-power third-circuit | The patchwork of nonuniform District Court local rules that deny general admissions privileges to lawyers licensed in forty-nine states is challenged … | |
| 23-7234 | Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict | Would a reasonable and informed observer question the judge's impartiality who allowed an AUSA, through his own acknowledgement, to prosecute in the p… |
| 23-7137 | Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton | Texas | 2024-04-04 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal | 1) Can a state district judge be removed from a child custody case for violation of due process clause 14th Amendment, of petitioner after an interloc… |
| 23-1072 | Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Amici (3) | 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation | The federal disqualification statute, 28 U.S.C. §455, compels federal judges to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality mig… |
| 23-1015 | Norman Seabrook v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus habeas-law ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal light-most-favorable notice-and-hearing procedural-due-process sixth-amendment sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal | 1. Did the District Court's sua sponte denial of Petitioner's habeas petition alleging ineffectiveness of trial counsel filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C.… |
| 23-6811 | In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appearance-of-bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-fairness standing takings | Question not identified. | |
| 23-823 | 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… | |
| 23-6545 | Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing | A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit completely flout this Court's precedent as set forth in Buck v. Davis . 580 U.S. 100 … |
| 23-744 | Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church | California | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal recusal right-to-appeal self-represented-litigant standing | 1.) Should Due Process of Law as mandated by the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment be afforded to self-represented litigant Plaintiff re… |
| 23A611 | Linda Ann Wright v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | 42-usc-1985 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process elder-abuse judicial-recusal | 1. Whether District Court Judges who has material interest in the Case, PAWD Case No. 21-cv-01152-NR, should have Recused themselves, under 28 U.S.C. … | |
| 23-6232 | Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Relisted (7)IFP | bite-mark bite-mark-analysis conflicted-judge due-process expert-testimony forensic-evidence judicial-recusal recanted-testimony scientific-developments scientific-reliability | Whether, as several circuits have found, there is a due process right not to be convicted based on forensic evidence later shown to be fundamentally u… |
| 23-6137 | In Re Ronald Boyajian | 2023-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-of-right constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-recusal prejudice recusal three-judge-panel | 1. In an only appeal of right of a criminal judgment, did Respondents deny defendant-appellant Ronald Boyajian's ("Petitioner") Due Process in failing… | |
| 23A454 | Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. | Texas | 2023-11-21 | Presumed Complete | bill-of-review constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal | Question not identified. | |
| 23-510 | Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment | Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Right to Fair Hearing and Guarantees Clause, Article IV, Sec. 4: 1. Does a self-evaluative review applying no object… |
| 23-5943 | Saria Walker v. United States Federal Government, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-conspiracy civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal pro-se-plaintiff | 1.) Why is a Judge Not recusal themselves when they are Named as defendants in the case ? 2.) Why is a Civil Conspiracy being overlooked ? 3.) Why is… |
| 23-5892 | Shane Woodgeard v. Timothy Heavlin, et al. | Ohio | 2023-10-26 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion bond-setting case-consolidation change-of-venue civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal venue-change | Did a lower Court violate Rights in issuing an unheard of, $100,000 bond on a misdemeanor, when there was overwhelming evidence showing there was no c… |
| 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… |
| 23A268 | Patrick Lockhart v. Karen Lockhart | West Virginia | 2023-09-27 | Presumed Complete | due-process equal-protection equitable-distribution extrinsic-fraud judicial-recusal void-ab-initio | Question not identified. | |
| 23-281 | Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review | Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion of de novo? |
| 23-5592 | Beau John Greene v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-09-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review arizona constitutional-bias death-penalty due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal prosecutorial-conflict recusal williams-v-pennsylvania | Beau Greene is an Arizona death-row prisoner. Due to recent amendments to Arizona's death-penalty statute by the Arizona legislature, the sole aggrava… |
| 23-193 | Richard Rynn v. First Transit, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings dismissal due-process employment-retaliation freedom-of-speech judicial-recusal retaliation | 1. Should assigned District court judge John Tuchi recuse himself from personal involvement and conflict of interest of subject matter in dispute? 2.… |
| 23A191 | Anthony Kinney v. Supreme Court of New Hampshire | New Hampshire | 2023-08-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review attorney's-fees caperton-standard conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5330 | Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights | Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC-3443-22-0386-1-1) which was about Mr. Waschull not recuesing himself from t… |
| 23-5312 | In Re Brian D. Smith | 2023-08-09 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal plea-bargaining right-to-appeal | Is Smith's plea of guilty invalid because he was not informed of the true nature of his crime and was misled and misinformed by his court-appointed pu… | |
| 23-118 | Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing | Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action… | |
| 23-106 | Allan Nowicki, et al. v. Crown Financial Corporation | Pennsylvania | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal legal-procedure recusal standing void-judgment | 1. Are the judgments entered in this case void because they were obtained by a fraud upon the court? 2. Have the Petitioners' rights to Due Process b… |
| 22-7820 | Annamalai Annamalai v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing | I. Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality when the court's remarks at sent… |
| 22-1144 | Farva Jafri v. Signal Funding, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | appellate-review civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay equal-pay-act human-rights-act judicial-bias judicial-recusal media-attention summary-judgment | Whether the Honorable Judge Easterbrook and the Honorable Judge Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals should have voluntarily recused themselve… | |
| 22-7607 | Sensa Verogna v. Andrea K. Johnstone, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-duties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extrajudicial-knowledge federal-judges judicial-immunity judicial-recusal recusal standing | 1. Should a judge recuse themselves having learned through their administrative duties, material facts deriving from an extrajudicial source? 2. Does… |
| 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… |
| 22-1109 | Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. | Massachusetts | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal | Has Irving Rounds, Jr. (hereinafter "Petitioner") been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the… |
| 22-7534 | Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law | Question not identified. |
| 22-7519 | Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from. II. When the Circuit Cou… |
| 22-7298 | In Re Gabriel Desmond Yankey, Jr. | 2023-04-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-district judicial-recusal legal-standing petitioner-rights procedural-rights standing | Question not identified. | |
| 22-903 | Jay Goodley v. Charles M. Greene | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-capacity judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-recusal recusal separation-of-powers | 1. Whether a person can be treated equally under the law when a judge is changing the law? 2. Whether it is a normal judicial function for a judge wh… |
| 22-651 | Kenneth Kellogg, et al. v. Watts Guerra LLP, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-deceit class-action due-process fee-contract judicial-recusal mass-tort multidistrict-litigation | The Kellogg, et al. lawsuit and this petition address whether lawyers can mislead 60,000 corn growers across the United States into signing 40 percent… |
| 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… | |
| 22-449 | Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. | Washington | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal | 1. Whether judges in Washington State must specifically address the judicial partiality claims actually asserted by the parties against judicial offic… |
| 22-5995 | Collucci J. Myers v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-455 bias-complaint civil-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process judicial-recusal notice-of-lawsuit pro-se-litigation procedural-standards standing | The questions presented here are related to both the issues ruled upon by the district court, and appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and al… |
| 22-409 | Alexander Moskovits v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-recusal supervisory-power | This case presents a Constitutional question of fundamental public importance: whether instituting sealed proceedings in a civil case (in next day rea… |
| 22-5778 | William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bias civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal property-rights recusal sanctions | If a judge continuously refuses to recuse himself following an extreme amount of verifiable bias should another judge in a close, but separate divisio… |
| 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 … |
| 22-5348 | Clarence Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing | 1) Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge. 2) Whether the district court erred b… |
| 21-1560 | Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions | The Questions Presented are: 1. Rule 2.11 of the Code of Conduct and as pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455 and Cannon 3C(1) of the Code of United States Jud… | |
| 21-7820 | Darron Thomas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus-petition probable-cause standing | 1. "HA" is hereafter used or "hereafter." With respect to (wrt) "appeals" of Case 2:21-cv-03683-GJP Thomas v June et al (HA, Case 03683), and U.S. v. … |
| 21-7588 | Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment | #1. Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal, (Bias and Conflict of Interest was questionable)? United States Eastern District Of Wisconsin, 2… |
| 21-1343 | Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico | New Mexico | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing | Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so… |
| 21-1313 | Martin Gottesfeld v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | This case presents a clear and intractable conflict regarding an important statutory question under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. 3161 et se… | |
| 21-1299 | Nicholas D. Scoyni v. Daniel R. Salvador, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-recusal procedural-rules recuse service-mark service-marks takings-clause trademarks | 1. Does the district court have the right to adjudicate an intellectual property case without addressing parties' pleas, disregarding legal precedence… | |
| 21-1253 | Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | 28-usc-455a bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-settlement bar-order chapter-7-trustee due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-recusal stern-v-marshall | (i) Did the Chapter 7 Trustee fail to provide transparency and observe its fiduciary duties to Debtor, all as allowed by the Bankruptcy Court? (ii) D… | |
| 21-7377 | Rosee Torres, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction identity-theft judicial-recusal mortgage-fraud rico-act standing takings | (a) WHETHER Torres are entitled to protections of Amendments 5th, 6th, 7th-13th and 14th to the Constitution? (b) WHETHER dismissal with prejudice of… |
| 21-1224 | Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank, National Association | Washington | 2022-03-09 | Denied | due-process equity-jurisdiction foreclosure-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-partiality judicial-power judicial-recusal state-statute | Did judicial officer, the Honorable Robert E. Olson, legitimately exercise the judicial power of the Superior Court for Whatcom County, Washington as … | |
| 21-1109 | Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-10 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection | Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments to th… |
| 21-6805 | Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment | WHETHER THE HONORABLE JOHN A GIBNEY, JR., UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, IN THIS CIVIL RIGHTS ACTION, ERRORED WHEN HE DID NOT RECUSE HIMSELF, P… |
| 21-6630 | Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-455 appeal appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute guilty-plea judicial-recusal recusal waiver-of-rights | Whether an unconditional guilty plea waives a federal criminal defendant's right to appeal a district court's failure to recuse under 28 U.S.C. § 455(… |
| 21-866 | Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Did this Court sever the government exception retroactively, and if so, is it permissible to reimpose the unequal treatment that this Court held "v… |
| 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… |
| 21-6303 | C. K. J. v. M. J. T. | Pennsylvania | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights custody-proceedings due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal protective-orders recusal standing | 1. Is it a violation of the Constitution for a judge to evaluate their own judge recusal and if they do should the case be vacated? 2. Is it unconsti… |
| 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… | |
| 21-714 | Judy Morrow Wright, et vir v. Matthew G. Buyer, et al. | Tennessee | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | appearance-of-bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-recusal recusal structural-error structural-right williams-precedent williams-v-pennsylvania | 1. Per Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. 1, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 195 L. Ed. 2d 132 (2016) ("Williams"), because Petitioners' Fourteenth Amendment right t… |
| 21-5562 | Richard C. Curran v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment case-reassignment due-process equal-protection government-interference judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal reassignment recusal | DID, PRESIDENT JUDGE WILLIAM HARVEY WIEST ABUSE HIS AUTHORITY BY RECUSING THE ENTIRE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FROM HEARING ANY OF M… |
| 21-5309 | Zachary Cooper v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-08-06 | Denied | IFP | actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure | 1. Does the Due Process Clause require the recusal of a trial judge when a conflict of interest arises from their participation in an earlier proceedi… |
| 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… |
| 21-88 | Christina Paylan v. Darrell Dirks, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response Waived | accountability civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-recusal standing | Whether the standard for judicial recusal requires a second look with establishment of a strict uniform criteria whereby the largely relied upon discr… |
| 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… |
| 20-8178 | Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | Second Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal | 1. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal's criticism regarding the infamous Chicago 7 trial includes that "in comparable situations, the judge likely to… |
| 20-7789 | In Re Michael K. Ciacci | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | district-of-columbia district-of-columbia-code due-process exhaustion-of-remedies ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal procedural-exhaustion savings-clause state-remedies | Whether the scope of the savings clause under District of Columbia Code Section 23-110(g) is open to a claim supported by judicial failure to recuse? … | |
| 20-1227 | David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation | • Whether The 9™CIRCUIT COURT HAD FULL JURISDICTION OF THE APPEAL, HAVING NO NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED By PETITIONER IN THE Central DISTRICT COURT UNTIL … | |
| 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… | |
| 20-954 | 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 … | |
| 20-6766 | Steven Justin Villalona v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing haines-v-kerner ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal pro-se-pleadings recusal section-2255 | (1) What rights under the Due Process clause do prisoners have during the course of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings? (A) For example, if the record, mot… |
| 20-777 | In Re Darren Heyman | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment | This case provides this Court with multiple instances for it to ground the criteria by which presiding judges, with different active relationships wit… | |
| 20-745 | 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… |
| 20-6364 | 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… |
| 20-6119 | In Re Nira Woods | 2020-10-23 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal recusal standing superior-court | Three Orders by three Judges, at three different Superior Court branches in California, without hearing Petitioner (on 09/28/20, 09/30/20, 10/30/20), … | |
| 20-524 | Yi Tai Shao v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | court-jurisdiction court-records default-judgment disqualification due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal | 1. Did the district court and court of appeal violate due process by failing to rule on requests for recusal and disqualification, and failure to prov… |
| 20-5855 | In Re Ruben Orlando Benitez | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-authority civil-procedure court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent new-evidence recusal standing | Whether the Court committed errors therein arising from oversight Whether new evidence serves as precedence Whether the deciding Judges acted with m… | |
| 20-5830 | Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady brady-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the district court ignored due process by its repeated failure to rule on petitioner's Brady claims. Whether a district court judge's impa… |
| 20-248 | Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Charles Koch, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-08-31 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 5th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing | Has Irving Rounds, Jr. (hereinafter "Petitioner ") been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution of the United… |
| 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… |
| 19-1455 | Leigh Ann Youngblood-West v. Aflac Incorporated, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech hush-agreement judicial-recusal prior-restraint rumery standing | 1. Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon w… |
| 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 … |
| 19-8496 | 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), … |
| 19-8436 | In Re Michael A. Young | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing | I. Whether indigent petitioner's "GATEWAY" FACTUAL INNOCENCE" Showing while being Constructively "DENIED appointment of Counsel on" FIRST and "ALL" ot… | |
| 19-1235 | Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-04-20 | Denied | constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition | The petitioner, Brian Hampton Clark ("Brian Clark") seeks reversal of a conviction of contempt of court entered by the Honorable David V. Williams, ch… | |
| 19-7483 | Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing | Whether the List of California Vio rules Satin "firme (laeliPerks Satis "77 fatale hon Kar Jilerig Qe SCV V177G & kth of Cerhotars on fespondentt 18 f… |
| 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… |
| 19-7189 | Kevin D. Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing | 1) Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge Reed Charles O'Connor abuse his discretion when he refused to recuse himself/ in violation of the… |
| 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… | |
| 19-674 | James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company | Delaware | 2019-11-26 | Denied | appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court | Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue… | |
| 19-602 | Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal … |
| 19-6031 | In Re Keith E. Doyle | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-intent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-recusal montana-constitution preliminary-hearing recusal stare-decisis state-constitution unlawful-conviction | In the Montana Constitution it clearly states that the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall never be suspended; the Convention Notes of the Great Writ shall 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… |
| 19-5689 | Benjamin Oshea Calhoun v. Tony Villa, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-recusal judicial-supervision legal-authority motion-to-dismiss probable-cause standing warrantless-arrest | Rather the Appellant courts ruling to uphold the District Courts order which granted defendants motions to dismiss conflicts with the Supreme courts p… |
| 19-5097 | Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing | May a Court of Appeals [the Ninth Circuit] ignore an appellant's Request to Recuse itself in an appeal of a district court's Order dismissing a lawsui… |
| 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… |
| 18-9569 | Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro | Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA? Should Petitioner have received a strike for the denial of his P… |
| 18-9561 | In Re Benny Stewart | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-procedure due-process due-process,recusal,probable-cause,felony-prosecut felony-prosecution information judge-recusal judicial-bias judicial-recusal probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion recusal state-law | The unconstitutional potential for bias and judge recusal when a felony is prosecuted by an information under state law when the same judge makes the … | |
| 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… |
| 18-9317 | Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | Second Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction | Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C… |
| 18-9158 | Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe… |
| 18-8836 | Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | sovereign-immunity-waiver 28-usc-2106 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-process judicial-recusal judicial-review recusal sovereign-immunity standing | Whether the Supreme Court or any other court of appellate jurisdiction may affirm, modify, vacate, set aside or reverse any lower court judgment, decr… |
| 18-8390 | Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime | Whether, consistent with due process and 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a "vict… |
| 18-8162 | Eric V. Bartoli v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis | 1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho… |
| 18-7951 | Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial | 1. Should a judge recuse ones self from reviewing a motion that is challeging their rulings made during a bench trial? 2. Is it ineffective assistanc… |
| 18-7752 | Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-1915 appointment-of-counsel circuit-panel-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-complexity pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation recusal standing | 1. Whether the replacement Circuit Panel repeatedly refused to address/clarify Jurisdiction issues, ultimately dismissing the referenced appeal when t… |
| 18-1007 | Assem A. Abulkhair v. Google LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process email-privacy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-recusal law-enforcement-overreach privacy-rights recusal religious-discrimination search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | Whether the District Judge has the authority to dismiss suit while his/her recusal remains pending and his/her disqualification and impartiality comes… |
| 18-990 | R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii | (1) Whether, after this U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138, S. Ct. 42 (2017), the jurisdiction-lacking district … |
| 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. |
| 18-732 | Jean Coulter v. Blaze Tatananni, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process grand-jury-review impartiality judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal standing vagueness | Are Recusal Statutes 28 U.S. Code §455 and §144 Unconstitutionally Vague? Must the decision be overturned as Due Process is denied/impossible in the … |
| 18-6857 | Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing | 1. Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal? |
| 18-6796 | Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. | First Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing | Did the second panel, assigned to hear the appeal, err in denying Muckle's motion to remand the case or recuse itself because it concerns the appearan… |
| 18-5396 | Calvin McMillan v. Alabama | Alabama | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction | An Alabama jury voted to sentence Petitioner Calvin McMillan to life in prison for capital murder. Circuit Judge John Bush overrode the jury's decisio… |
| 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… |
| 18-5316 | Susan Wells Vaughan v. Jennifer Vaughan, et al. | North Carolina | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | absolute-immunity child-neglect child-neglect-cases-recusal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-initiations judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction troxel-v-granville | Whether a judge who regularly participates in unlawful ex parte initiations of child neglect cases should recuse herself from hearing a challenge to t… |
| 18-5020 | In Re Lewis Brown | 2018-06-28 | Dismissed | 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… | |
| 23A1158 | Rickey Lynch v. United States | Second Circuit | Presumed Complete | canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. |