jurisdictional-defect
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6800 | In Re Felix Verdejo-Sanchez | 2026-02-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-error due-process jurisdictional-defect mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may continue adjudicating the merits of a criminal appeal without first verifying, sua sponte, the existence of … | |
| 25-955 | Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Colorado | 2026-02-11 | Pending | constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar | Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise all meritorious claims on di… | |
| 25-6485 | Michelle Renee Morton v. Iowa | Iowa | 2026-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-proceedings due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-defect structural-error void-ab-initio | 1. Whether a conviction initiated by a warrant issued by a magistrate who is later adjudicated not neutral and detached, constitutes a structural juri… |
| 25-6443 | Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee | Connecticut | 2025-12-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-defect recusal standing | 1. Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate… |
| 25-6372 | Andre Belous v. City of Battle Creek, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-defect loper-bright municipal-officer oath-of-office | 1. Oath of Office & Due Process Whether a state court judgment is void when initiated by a municipal officer who never filed the constitutionally req… |
| 25-6228 | James Anthony Hale v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arraignment criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-defect right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | WHERE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL DURING HIS INITIAL ARRAIGNMENT PROCEEDING, JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT DEPRIVE THE STATE C… |
| 25A503 | William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias | Colorado | 2025-11-03 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure | Question not identified. | |
| 25-508 | Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. | Arizona | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect | 1. Whether due process is violated when state courts rely on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent allegations —previously adjudicated as l… |
| 25A408 | In Re Gregory Alvin James Van Etten | First Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | constitutional-injury due-process federal-review jurisdictional-defect service-of-process void-judgment | 1. Whether enforcement of Title IV-D orders entered without lawful service of process constitutes irreparable harm and requires a stay. 2. Whether a … | |
| 25A380 | William Scott v. Howard Hanna | Third Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-defect mandatory-deadline notice-of-appeal time-limit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A325 | Delmart Edward Vreeland v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari-petition due-process extraordinary-circumstances illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5574 | In Re Paul Patrick Jolivette | 2025-09-08 | Denied | IFP | conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-defect magistrate-judge-authority | L Did the united states fnagistrate ju^e dennis M. Cota abuse and usurp his authority and. jurisdiction wen he denied Petitioner' Motion to Disqualif… | |
| 25-5548 | Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | AEDPA due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect state-prisoner | Whether the Federal Courts have misapplied habeas restrictions introduced by the AEDPA to State prisoners under FRCP rule 60(b)(4) Motion Based on Fun… |
| 25-5449 | John Todd Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-three due-process judicial-designation jurisdictional-defect separation-of-powers structural-error | 1. Whether a federal judge who is not properly designated under 28 U.S.C. §§ 291-296 may lawfully preside over a criminal case and its post-conviction… |
| 25-130 | Francis McLain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conviction indictment-elements jurisdictional-defect jury-instructions rule-60b4 trust-fund-penalty | I. Can a district court properly deny a motion under Rule 60(b)(4), F.R.Civ.P., to vacate a criminal conviction where the motion shows the conviction … |
| 24-7235 | Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-05-16 | Denied | IFP | due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect | DID THE DISTRICT COURT COMMIT A RADICAL JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT BY NOT FOLLOWING MICHIGAN'S LAW AND STANDARDS SET FORTH BY MCL's, MCR's, AND FOURTH, FIF… |
| 24-6639 | Mario Ayala Alfaro v. California | California | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law-infant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jurisdictional-defect mens-rea | 1. Whether punishing a common-law infant in violation of a substantive rule of criminal procedure when devoid of the requisite knowledge and guilty me… |
| 23-6351 | Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when the district court failed to give notice of its intent to depart upwards 147 months and … |
| 23-5738 | Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process fair-procedure judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect procedural-fairness res-judicata rule-60b4 subject-matter-jurisdiction usurpation-of-power | 1. Whether factors of correct administration of the rules and fair procedure to allow a party an opportunity to litigate the question of jurisdiction… |
| 23-5232 | In Re Marcus Antone Peterson | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-imprisonment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect mandamus mandamus-relief sentencing | 1. The lower court acted outside its jurisdiction. 2. A quite bee ath lower court record jurisdiction 3. Peterson is illegally in-prison. (An amets… | |
| 23-5009 | Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 | A. Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete "as to all causes of action," as required by Collins v. Miller, 252 U.S. … |
| 22-7004 | Amit Khanna, et ux. v. Westport Village at Irongate Community Association | California | 2023-03-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hoa-declaration-bylaws home-owners-association jurisdictional-defect procedural-irregularity standing unauthorized-counsel vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation | Whether a case without a plaintiff may proceed against persons mis-alleged to be defendants by attorneys who are unauthorized to represent any plainti… |
| 22-833 | John E. Reardon v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equity-relief judicial-immunity jurisdictional-defect legal-recourse mandamus ministerial-acts standing | Given this Court's Mandate found in Wong Kim Ark v U.S., 169 U.S. 649, 654, 1898 that all Courts must consider the Common Law in its decisions and Pay… |
| 22-6392 | Adam Tello v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard | Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence is "non-law" and cannot be adjudicated time or procedurally barred under U.S. Supreme Court law of United … |
| 22-5865 | Charles Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Smith's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is… |
| 22-5708 | David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent | LACK OF STANDING IS A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT PANEL. LACK OF POWER TO DECREE IS ALSO A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT. THE PANEL DECISION CO… |
| 22-5604 | John Gregory Lambros v. Federative Republic of Brazil, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-09-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-state foreign-state-defendant jurisdictional-defect motion-to-remand remand removal removal-procedure service-of-process timeliness | QUESTION ONE (1): Whether an untimely "Motion for Removal" by a foreign state, 28 U.S.C. 1441(d) - 652 days to late - suffices when the non-jurisdicti… |
| 21-7819 | Kevin Ray Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect | 1. Did Petitioner have Article standing to collaterally attack a federal criminal conviction, assuming 28 U.S.C. §2255, relying on this Court's preced… |
| 21-7486 | Eric Jamar Goodall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-error waiver waiver-doctrine | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Goodall's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is … |
| 21-1097 | Vinod Kumar Dahiya v. Neptune Shipmanagement Services, PTE, Limited, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | arbitration-agreement compelled-arbitration foreign-arbitration foreign-award interlocutory-order judicial-review jurisdictional-defect new-york-convention preclusive-effect | Relying on a minority view of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention) definition of an arbi… | |
| 21-899 | Lauren Rosecan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-order-doctrine criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process felony grand-jury grand-jury-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-defect pretrial-motion | Whether the denial of a pretrial motion to dismiss a criminal information that charges, in violation of theGrand Jury Clause, felony offenses without … |
| 20-8195 | Calvin James Reid v. Michigan | Michigan | 2021-06-02 | Denied | IFP | collateral-attack constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-defect legal-remedy retroactivity state-court-conviction statute-of-limitations time-limitation | WHETHER A 30 YEAR OLD JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT IN STATE COURT CONVICTION SHOULD STAND UNCORRECTED BECAUSE THE VIOLATION OCCURRED OVER 30 YEARS AGO? |
| 20-5881 | Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry | Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa… |
| 20-338 | Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION Federal district courts have their jurisdiction limited to violations of laws of the United States. During the per… |
| 20-5529 | Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-31 | Denied | IFP | aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition | Question not identified. |
| 19-722 | Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association | California | 2019-12-06 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments | 1. Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute? 2. D… |
| 19-5661 | David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing | 1. WHETHER THERE EXIST A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT IN THIS CASE AND THE UNANIMOUS DE… |
| 19-5519 | Rubin R. Weeks v. Jason Lewis, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect liberty-interest parole-revocation state-court-review state-jurisdiction void-judgment | (1).Does Petitioner have the Fundamental Rights to be free from the Missouri State Court's void judgment that has him restrained of liberty ? (2). Do… |
| 18-9468 | Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation | Whether, when a state court enters a nunc pro tune judgment to attempt to cure a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, the first … |
| 18-9376 | Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY THEIR FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE JURISDICTIONAL DEFECTS THAT DEPRIVE THEM OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTI… |
| 18-8638 | Michael Bennefield v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects | When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair? When the Plea … |
| 18-7478 | Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-01-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment | 1. Are the sentencino proceedinos that was found to be urconstitutionel made to be invalid? 2. Did the 'trial court ebuse its discretion by refusinn … |
| 18-6953 | Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-12-10 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution | Question 1. Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional … |
| 18-6964 | Henry L. Wallace v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct standing | 1.) Whether a jurisdiction defective indictment can he procedurally or time bar adjudication after twenty years if it violate these Supreme Court Full… |
| 18-6535 | Rodney Williams v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-11-01 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment-violation jurisdictional-defect jury-trial-rights restitution right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment-right void-judgment void-restitution-order void-sentence | WAS DEFENDANT DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT HIS SENTENCING AND RESTITUTION HEARING; CONSTITUTING A VOID SENTENCE AND RESTITUTION ORDER… |
| 18-264 | New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal | Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k… |
| 18-5368 | Gabriel Werdene v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity | I. Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jur… |
| 18-5202 | Samuel Knowles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect | Is the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in error for ignoring this Courts mandates in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), where this Court has deter… |