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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6449 Cynthia Lynn Pollick v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-12-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights disorderly-conduct due-process legal-counsel pro-se sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania when it failed to honor…
24-6992 Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment guilty-plea legal-counsel motion-to-withdraw 1. Whether the district judge's decision to deny the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to …
24-6852 Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-03-26 Denied IFP double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment 1. - Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by sentencing the Petitioner in accordance with…
24-761 William H. Viehweg v. Insurance Programs Management Group, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection kay-v-ehrler legal-counsel pro-se-representation Whether the lower courts' recognition of three defendants' entries of appearances as their own attorneys, including legal counsel, rather than persona…
24-26 Hugh H. Baldwin, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2024-07-10 Denied Response Waived bad-faith collateral-consequences due-process due-process,collateral-consequences,bad-faith,lega ineffective-assistance legal-counsel post-conviction-relief Did the State commit a Bad Faith Due Process Violation resulting in outstanding legal consequences to the petitioner, to wit: Significant Collateral C…
23A971 John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete certiorari court-procedure legal-counsel petition-filing supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
23-7068 Jabari J. Johnson v. Jill Brady, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-counsel post-conviction right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
23-7009 Warren Simpson v. Alan Simpson Arizona 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-counsel liberty pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trustee 1) Should every US citizen, on the defensive side of any adverse legal issue, be provided council if they wish such and cannot afford or find; and com…
23A609 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition Whether average citizens have a right to a finding of fact and law by the trial court on motion to compel arbitration, and whether the trial court's f…
23A605 Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-5855 Regina Tate v. Hamilton County Election Commission Sixth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-counsel pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Dismissal should be reconsidered for failure to appoint legal counsel
23-5706 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution The question presented here is, "can the courts prosecute (indict, try and sentence) indigent Companies without legal representation?" Without legal r…
22-6611 Joseph P. Counts v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights cohen-collateral-order due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-counsel notice-of-appeal pro-se standing timeliness urgent-matters Question not identified.
22-387 James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division Michigan 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition 1. Does the Ninth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantee rights to: a. Correction of mistakes as expeditiously as practical after disco…
21-1563 Reynaldo Antonio De Los Santos, et al. v. William Bosworth, In the Official Capacity as Employee and/or Administrator and/or Policymaker and/or Official of Johnson County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights county-commissioners due-process government-code indigent-appointment legal-counsel open-meetings open-meetings-act public-funds texas-government-code texas-open-meetings-act Plaintiffs claimed and provided documented evidence showing that multiple Defendants as members of commissioners courts from two Texas counties failed…
21-7497 In Re Willie T. Murphy 2022-03-30 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance legal-counsel martinez-v-ryan prisoner-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment "DOES A PRISONER HAVE A RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN A COLLATERAL PROCEEDING WHICH PROVIDES THE FIRST OCCASION TO RAISE A CLAIM OF INEF…
21-5451 John M. Wasson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-counsel mining-claim right-to-counsel The questions presented are: 1. Did Mr. Wasson have adequate counsel during his trial and appeal? 2. Was Mr. Wasson's accessing his mining claim's c…
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charg…
20-1596 Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm P.L.L.C. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (1) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split client-identity confidential-communication irs-audit irs-summons john-doe-summons legal-counsel tax-planning When the Government is aware of a citizen's confidential communication with legal counsel or the motive for seeking advice, but is unaware of the citi…
20-6934 Fred Cartwright v. Silver Cross Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-rehearing equal-protection legal-counsel medical-condition post-traumatic-stress-disorder standing writ-of-certiorari The Petitioner does not know what he are doing, please view the next page labeled "List of Parties " for more details and everything that listed may h…
20-6062 Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure criminal-process district-court due-process legal-counsel post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel standing subject-matter-jurisdiction THE APPELLATE COURT MUST FIRST CONSIDER WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAS SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION; and, SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION MAY BE RAISED AT…
20-5566 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-counsel relief-denial standing state-court-procedure Can the systematic deprivation of counsel be used as the primary reason to deny access-to-the-courts of Florida? 2. Is a two (2) year period reasonab…
19-8428 Marc Wyatt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-market-value fifth-circuit legal-counsel replacement-cost right-to-self-representation self-representation QUESTION ONE: IF THE RECORD IS VOID OF MARC TRACE WYATT BEING LEGALLY APPOINTED COUNSEL, DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DETERMINING THAT HIS CODE OF C…
19-8363 Daniel R. McClain v. Kenneth Sharp, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel post-conviction-relief prison-conditions 1) Why are alleged time limits excuses berg erroneaus le misused to disrtss abunclant matlérs of reversable error, and promote extraordinary asurpatio…
19-6575 Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida Florida 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing 1. On March 11, 2010, at the Felony Sounding Hearings The State of Florida was ready, and made the "Ore R." Why wasn't Attorney Robert L White, prepar…
19-493 James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC Federal Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Relisted (2) cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law 1. Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB Orders and Judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings —that required corporations to be represent…
18-5017 Glenn Lee Selden v. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-contract constitutional-provisions criminal-forfeiture due-process false-name-registration government-authority legal-counsel military-appeal national-security standing takings WILL COURT ENFORCE A COMMERCIAL CONTRACT? THE UNITED STATES IS UNDER NUCLEAR ASSULT AND THE PUBLIC IS IN GRAVE DANGER WILL COURT GRANT MILITARY APPE…