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24-1043 Edward Plummer, Jr. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, et al. California 2025-04-01 Denied court-notification judicial-system leave-to-amend litigant-rights pro-se substantive-due-process Does our judicial system deny pro se litigants substantive due process when the courts are remise in ensuring that such litigants are timely and prope…
24A267 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-16 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment fifth-amendment leave-to-amend ninth-circuit redressability 1. The petition for a writ of certiorari would raise two issues. The first is the manner of analyzing the redressability prong of Article III standing…
21-8222 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing Whether federal courts from holding the Fifth Amendment prohibits litigants to the same pro se stringent standards as attorneys. Whether the Fifth Am…
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure 1. PA AmLiis alto poe bef t reac the istrict Ju twas corrected be fore his decisiow or his review the magishate cart fding. Divcew Litigtion histy was…
21-6153 Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. Texas 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Despite the freedoms and privileges of U.S. citizenship, for over 17 years, petitioner has been imprisoned within an illiberal democracy 1, having los…
20-8274 RaySean D. Barber v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-deficiencies district-court due-process equal-protection indigent-claims leave-to-amend meaningful-review prisoner-claims standing 1.) Whether the district court's finding with regard to Mr. Barber's equal protection claim conflicted with this Court's governing determinations. 2.…
20-1572 Ramon D. Johnson, II v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brand-name-liability brand-name-manufacturer FDA-approval generic-drug generic-drug-liability label-defect leave-to-amend preemption product-liability state-law-claims texas-presumption-of-no-liability unapproved-indication In Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing 564 U.S. 604 (2011) the only question before this Court was whether a state law duty for a generic drug manufacturer to p…
20-208 Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. Ethan Volungis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment civil-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure leave-to-amend motion-to-dismiss represented-plaintiff rule-15 sua-sponte When Liberty Mutual moved to dismiss Ethan Volungis's complaint alleging bad-faith handling of an insurance claim, Volungis and his counsel chose not …
19-8827 David Fowler v. Indymac Bank, FSB, et al. New York 2020-06-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review leave-to-amend motion-for-leave state-court-jurisdiction Whether justice is ultimately served when the State of New York Court of Appeals gave no detailed reasoning in denying Petitioner's motion for leave t…
19-8526 Quintez Talley v. Timothy Mazzocca, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion leave-to-amend mail-fraud pro-se-plaintiff racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act screening-phase standing supplemental-jurisdiction wire-fraud 1. Does the Disability to Shoulder Concrete Financial Loss Demonstrate a Lack of Standing When Bringing 2 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizatio…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
19-6324 Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato 1. "Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was "vacated and overturned" in light of Heck U. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, …
19-425 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis leave-to-amend notice notice-requirement pleading-standards procedural-dismissal standing statutory-interpretation What is the meaning of 28 U.S.C. Section 1915 (e) (2) (b) (ii), "fails to state a claim on which relief can be granted", as it relates to Rule 12 (b) …
19-5040 Jennifer Lu v. Stanford University Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-amendment complaint-amendment dismissal district-court-procedure due-process judicial-guidance leave-to-amend legal-notice pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness Whether when granting a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must identify the complaint deficiencies so that the pro se lit…
18-782 William C. Bond v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether when denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must provide a reason for that denial (as held by the Third, Sev…
18-780 Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination Under the Civil Rights Act, is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful "on the basis of sex," and/or "because of.. . sex," as held by the Second an…