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25-6673 James R. Caputo v. Richard S. Tubiolo, et al. New York 2026-01-29 Pending IFP attorney-client-relationship legal-malpractice negligence-standard pleading-amendment professional-medical-conduct summary-judgment Question not identified.
25-6632 Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray Eighth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending IFP attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action Whether the pla intiff 'is allow to sue his formal attorney under the color of state law, and to where the violation occurred while the defendant acte…
25A796 James L. Martin v. Bruce L. Hudson, et al. Delaware 2026-01-09 Application conditional-payment health-insurance-recovery legal-malpractice medical-expert-testimony medicare-subrogation personal-injury Question not identified.
25-101 J. M. F. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant effective-counsel legal-malpractice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the threat of a civil action by a criminal defendant against his attorney is a per se denial of the right to the effective of counsel guarante…
25A61 Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones Virginia 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-1208 Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case "substantial," such that it would give rise to federal question jurisdiction …
24-1012 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Martin J. O’Leary, et al. Montana 2025-03-21 Denied choice-of-law legal-malpractice multi-jurisdictional-practice personal-jurisdiction professional-liability specific-jurisdiction Is a lawyer with a multi-jurisdictional law practice subject to specific personal jurisdiction for a legal malpractice claim in a state where the lawy…
24-593 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights legal-malpractice separation-of-powers treason Can this Court, consistently with its obligations to uphold and to enforce the Constitution, trade the constitutionally guaranteed rights of millions …
24-5323 Muhidin Salad Omar v. John C. Gardner Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights criminal-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice Question not identified.
24-8 John Meyer v. John Pellegrin Sixth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied attorney-liability breach-of-contract civil-procedure criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney exoneration legal-malpractice post-conviction-relief 1. Whether a criminal defense lawyer should be held responsible for his actions and inactions even if his client is guilty of a lesser offense. 2. Wh…
23-7178 Shawn Titus v. Donald L. Schense Nebraska 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment appellate-process due-process equal-access expert-affidavit legal-malpractice seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury 1. COULD THE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVE PETITIONER OF HIS 7TH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT BASED SOLELY UPON THE DEFENDANT-EXPERT…
23-815 Laurie Ann McRay, et al. v. Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath PLLC Texas 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees counterclaims due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics legal-malpractice prosecutorial-fees substitute-counsel summary-judgment trial-procedure When a law firm sues its own clients, demanding an award for both alleged past-due attorney's fees and then attorney's fees for prosecuting the lawsui…
23-516 Michael D. Smith v. Derek Gordon, et al. Kentucky 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment immunity legal-immunity legal-malpractice prisoner-rights standing 1 Will this court let stand as Kentucky courts have ruled that lawyers in a criminal case, in essence have the same IMMUNITY as judges and prosecuto…
23-5681 Justin Weible v. Kevin Provost, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitrary-or-capricious civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-malpractice license-revocation procedural-due-process unlawful-procedure 1. That substantial rights of the Petitioner have been prejudiced because of the Lower Courts and Department's findings, inferences, conclusions and/o…
23-86 Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation 1. Whether HBH (concealing its family rela tionship with the adverse party in the underlying probate litigation) violated Petitioner's constitutiona…
23-5215 Aisha Wright v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-rules financial-gain judicial-misconduct legal-malpractice oath-of-office summary-judgment The Petitioner Aisha Wright conducted an overall review of my case record and Concluded newly substantial evidence that was not supported by the Admin…
22-7789 Douglas Manning v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP case-merits civil-rights defendant-justification due-process harmful-consequences ineffective-assistance legal-excuses legal-malpractice plaintiff-claims procedural-grounds professional-responsibility standing I] bcfe'idan '] $o $,t\ck<2k\c> The harmful consequence +e>~he PjatViiifF+W't Wt 5h&uld be h^M flQ6w(l5 1h 2 fof if ?9 II] i^o5-f)^efe any 6rpiwd orl…
22-7719 Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. Nebraska 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve…
22-1040 William Carlson, et al. v. Thomas Cronin, et al. Illinois 2023-04-26 Denied due-process full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure legal-malpractice sham-proceeding statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose Whether Carlson's constitutional right to due process and constitutional right to receive full faith and credit of a final judgment was violated when …
22-6958 Thomas Powers v. David Doll, et al. Illinois 2023-03-08 Dismissed IFP civil-commitment civil-detainee civil-rights due-process illinois-supreme-court legal-malpractice sexual-violent-person-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial WHETHER PETITIONER THOMAS POWERS WHO HAS BEEN PENDING A CIVIL DETAINEE SINCE JUNE 26,2012 PENDING A CIVIL COMMITMENT HEARING IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN …
22-6795 Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal 1. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE WHEN HE FAILED TO FILE THE NOTICE OF APPEAL WHEN REQUESTED.
22-6298 Antoinne Lee Washington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-action equitable-tolling failure-to-state-a-claim habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings heck-doctrine legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations 1. May a legal malpractice cause of action be dismissed for a failure to state a claim, in pursuant to the "Heck Doctrine" (Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.…
22-482 Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., et al. v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey 2022-11-21 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-fees causation causation-damages constitutional-rights damages due-process jury-award legal-malpractice 1. Whether the Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated when the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey substitut…
22-5257 Daryl Stephen v. New York New York 2022-08-02 Denied IFP attorney-conduct attorney-misconduct civil-procedure damages legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-responsibility professional-standards standing tort-law Legal malpractice by petitioner attorney Contravenion of the law
21-7893 Paul Mueller v. Bert Parnall New Mexico 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights discovery-rule due-process legal-malpractice section-1981 statute-of-limitations (1) Whether my right to sue was violated in New Mexico under the 14th amend., and § 1981, after a state court denied my right to sue, when it decided …
21-1309 Wendy Meigs v. Todd Zucker, et al. Texas 2022-03-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations court-bias court-corruption due-process due-process-rights judicial-system-accountability legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-discrimination 1. Does this Country contribute to Court Bias, Violations of Due Process and Constitutional Rights, and Discrimination in courts by consciously ignori…
21-7181 Mary Ellen Samuels v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice performance prejudice prejudice-presumption supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the California Supreme Court unreasonably fail to apply clearly established Supreme Court precedent that requires prejudice to be presumed wher…
21-7075 Ian T. Cooke v. John R. Williams, et al. Connecticut 2022-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-plaintiffs favorable-termination heck-bar heck-v-humphrey justiciability legal-malpractice tort-action tort-actions Does the justiciability bar articulated by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) requiring criminal plaintiffs to favorably terminate their conviction…
21-565 Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied contract-location contractual-obligations damages damages-jurisdiction judicial-bias legal-malpractice out-of-state-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction representation-agreement In a suit alleging an ongoing scheme, affecting multiple clients, over a period of more than ten years, of legal malpractice, and judicial bias based …
21-452 Falisha Bell v. Scott Wagner & Associates Florida 2021-09-23 Denied Response Waived answer-brief civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations timely-filing After filing case within the lower court and being dealt unfairly. I immediately filed with the Third district court of appeal. On January 16, 2020 I …
21-263 Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. Arkansas 2021-08-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing 1. Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time, whether in Arkansas state court or in Federal Court, with or without cause, subject…
21-239 Daniel Loring v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-misconduct legal-malpractice obstruction-of-justice public-record On www.pacermonitor.com the "OFFICIAL " Publics Domain of the governments; United States Courts Cases. On PACER Service Center pacer@psc.uscourts.gov …
20-6295 Donna Raively v. Thomas A. Whelihan New Jersey 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (3)IFP attorney-ethics attorney-misconduct case-conflict civil-procedure client-representation client-trust fiduciary-duty legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-misconduct standing 1. Whether an attorney is held to a certain standard of fiduciary duty in lower courts; his knowledge of the law far exceeds that of the average perso…
19-8609 Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages declarative-relief district-court due-process injunctive-relief legal-malpractice standing unconstitutional-judgment void-judgments 1. Whether District Court 's Characterisation of a suit seeking injunctive, declarative relief and damages against making of Unconstitutional and Void…
19-1312 Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation 1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test…
19-1205 Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments 1. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents and judgments in this case within …
19-1144 Michael McCarron v. DeCarlo & Shanley, P.C. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty labor-law labor-union legal-advice legal-malpractice preemption professional-misconduct standing state-law-claims I. Does The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA ") (29 U.S.C. §1144(a)), preempt state law claims of a labor union official agains…
19-7405 Francienna B. Grant v. Marshall L. Williams New Jersey 2020-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights damages-denial due-process evidence ex-parte-evidence judicial-fairness legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether a Pro Se litigant can prevail in a Legal malpractice case on liability after having suffered damages and be denied damages incurred. Whether …
19-918 Anthony J. Lucero v. James R. Koncilja, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice motion-for-default-judgment res-judicata state-action Pursuant to Rule 14 of Supreme Court of the United States Rules effective July 1, 2019 Preface: Petitioner reiterated his multiple complaints against…
19-888 Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP New York 2020-01-16 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination legal-malpractice motion-to-appeal prima-facie procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner's Motion for Leave to Appeal when sua sponte and without notice to Petitioner, and w…
19-7216 Daniel A. Ramet v. Robert LeGrande, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper legal-malpractice plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington If a defense attorney advises a client to reject a favorable plea offer based on a grave miscalculation about the viability of a legal defense, has th…
19-716 Zhi Gang Zhang v. Dan Rasmus, et al. South Dakota 2019-12-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fraud attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fraud legal-malpractice Whether differences in the acquittal process between fraud committed by an attorney and fraud committed by a non-attorney in some but not all federal …
19-6112 In Re Larry Pouncy 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus Question not identified.
19-5914 Lena Lasher v. Roger Stavis, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence best-evidence-rule civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-defense due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-malpractice 1. Should a civil action be granted to proceed to correct the District Court's error where they misrepresented a precedent, Hoffenberg v. Meyers, and …
19-5700 Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment WHETHER GARZA v. IDAHO, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), APPLIES TO PETITIONER'S CLAIM THAT HIS DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BY FAILING TO FILE A NOTICE OF A…
19-240 Noah Thomas Ballard v. Vicky Lynn Ballard Tennessee 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-malpractice attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights damages divorce-decree due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-malpractice punitive-damages standing supreme-court-review 1. Can you, Please, overrule, the No. 2016DV97 decree, and award, decree, mandate, to me Noah T. Ballard, the accurate, appropriate, equitable, fair, …
19-5662 Carter Stephens v. Marcelo Britto Gomez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process henderson-factors judicial-intervention legal-ethics legal-malpractice sanctions standing state-bar state-bar-regulation 1. The plaintiff Carter Stephens was not informed by the State Bar of the abhorrent record of the neglectful attorney he subsequently retained. This a…
19-5437 Ekaterini Alexopoulos v. Steven Goldsmith, P.A., et al. Florida 2019-08-02 Denied IFP district-court-error duty-to-control duty-to-control-third-person ethics-violation expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence legal-malpractice rule-702 special-relation standard-of-care 1. The issue presented by Petitioner's Writ of Certiorari in this legal malpractice case is not whether a properly instructed jury could have ruled in…
19-5163 Michael A. Kelley, Jr. v. Phillip W. Gerth Ohio 2019-07-12 Denied IFP attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations summary-judgment # (1) The sole issue presented in this petition is whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpract…
18-8193 Ada Albors Gonzalez v. William M. Stern, et al. Florida 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fla-r-civ-p-1-540b legal-malpractice procedural-rights sovereign-powers statute-of-limitations void-or-voidable-orders void-orders Whether the State of Florida court abuse its discretion by decision of denial on Petitioner's legal malpractice cause of action on the statute of limi…
18-1087 Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se 1. Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could f…
18-7937 Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing Thfl the Lower courts erred in judgment by dismissing Petitioner 'Actual Conflict in dual-representation" when trial counsel's dementia was cause for …
18-7908 Twila Haynes v. Walmart, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment standing Federal rule 39. (in forma Pauperis) [FP. Is an [FP that is granted by District Court (Eastern District of Pa.) transferable to another district Court…
18-1036 Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied 60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment 1. If a client is blameless, is a lawyer's gross neglect of the client's case a basis for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6)? (7-2 …
18-1005 Eileen L. Zell v. Katherine M. Klingelhafer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure court-misconduct cover-up due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice perjury political-influence settlement-conference Whether the following actions of the district and appellate courts below represented concrete evidence of actual bias that violates due process of law…
18-6743 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing is theRookerLFeidrñandoctrine constitutional when it fails, "to protect individual rights under the Constitution. . . the purpose of the U.S. Supreme …
18-6383 Robert J. Kulick v. Steven Rein Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation attorney-client attorney-client-rights civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice legal-representation pro-per-status pro-se standing state-bar-bias Why the CA State Bar denied an investigation against Steven Rein, Esq. for his blackmail against me, & :-;why attorneys allowed to be relieved as an a…
18-5677 Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,du ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice negligence prejudice trial-outcome trial-procedure Question not identified.