judicial-sanctions

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6717 Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. Washington 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-limits due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigation 1- UNCONSTITUTIONALLY BIASED ADJUDICATION (RULE OF NECESSITY/ SELF-INTEREST): Did the state appellate court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
25-808 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th…
25A774 Raymond E. Butler v. Eli Eddi, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-05 Application appellate-review attorney-advocacy disqualification-motion due-process first-amendment judicial-sanctions Question not identified.
25-6394 Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda New Jersey 2025-12-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment 1. Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations. 2. Whether judicial sanctions imposed as penalties require due pr…
24A772 Samuel Pfeiffer v. Mid-Town Development Limited Partnership, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appellate-mandate circuit-court-procedure due-process frivolous-argument judicial-sanctions right-to-be-heard Question not identified.
24-791 Barry J. Byrnes v. Sylvia Marie Byrnes Tenth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-review eighth-amendment judicial-sanctions jury-trial-right 1. Did the bankruptcy judge enter an illegal judgment and violate Petitioner's right to a jury trial in district court on the tort claims? 2. Are the…
24-385 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees canon-of-judicial-conduct fair-housing-act fraud-allegations judicial-sanctions procedural-errors 1. - Whether the CA, erred and violated the Canon 3B (6) of the Code of Conduct of U.S. Judges for not ordering the DC, to investigate the fraud upon …
24A328 Good Lawgic, LLC, et al. v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County New York 2024-10-04 Presumed Complete first-amendment judicial-sanctions legal-ethics media-litigation professional-responsibility trial-court-conduct Question not identified.
23-1237 County of Fulton, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-authority county-boards-of-elections due-process election-integrity election-law elections judicial-sanctions pennsylvania-general-assembly pennsylvania-supreme-court voting-equipment voting-machines 1. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in allowing a Special Master to order that voting machines owned by the County of Fulton were to be placed i…
23A425 Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation Question not identified.
23A68 Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint Question not identified.
23-40 Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence In considering the standards set forth in Flury, should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evid…
21-524 Schlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York Connecticut 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure discovery due-process foreclosure judicial-sanctions mortgage-law notice property-rights sanctions Questions presented as follows: Granting sanctions without the court's adequate notice of its intention to impose sanctions and the opportunity to be…
20-1600 Sae Han Sheet Co., Ltd. v. Eastman Performance Films, LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure contract-action dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-sanctions legal-procedure sanctions warnings 1. The district court below dismissed Petitioner's complaint with prejudice based upon a false representation made by Respondent and without providing…
20-6491 In Re Mario Allan Montano 2020-12-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process fee-waiver filing-injunction judicial-sanctions jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits michigan-supreme-court sanctions The Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the Petitioner's motions to waive fees in multiple cases before the Court. Based on this failure, the Mic…
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah 2020-06-29 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner Autumn Stavely's and her counsel's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when it sanctioned both …
19-7762 Galen LeMar Amerson, et al. v. Atlas Law Firm, P.C., et al. Colorado 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-contempt civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process hearing hearing-requirements judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions kidnapping liberty property warrantless-search If the right to a hearing, is assured under due process, according to the 6th and 14th amendments, before a person can be deprived of life, liberty or…
18-9249 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-rules answering-brief appellate-procedure brief-filing civil-procedure deadlines judicial-sanctions motion-for-sanctions notification pro-se-litigation procedural-deadlines sanctions Litigating the Preliminary Injunction Appeal pursuant to the 9th Circuit's Rule 3-3(b), shall the Defendant-Appellee file an Answering Brief "within 2…
18-1406 Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. Arizona 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing …
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Whether the 3rd Circuit Appeals Court erred in upholding the decision of Federal District Court to dismiss Petitioner One employment discrimination La…