local-rules

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A559 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-13 Application bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith."
25-359 Rambod Sotoodeh, et al. v. City of South El-Monte, California, a Municipal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure local-rules merits-consideration motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 Whether Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 83(a)(1) require a district court to consider the merits of an unopposed Rule 12(b)(6) motion to…
24-7350 Rusty James Driscoll v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-material fifth-amendment inmate-rights local-rules sixth-amendment 1. Whether District Court of South Dakota's Local Rules, 16.1 and 57.10, which restrict an inmate's ability to access and to personally possess his/he…
24-5675 Lenore Albert v. Roxanne Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-suspension district-court legal-practice local-rules rules-enabling-act state-bar Whether a United States District Court can automatically suspend an attorney's membership to practice law in that District Court based upon a State Ba…
23-1198 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure first-amendment frcp-56 independent-review local-rules material-facts religious-harassment statement-of-material-facts summary-judgment supreme-court-precedents workplace-discrimination Supreme Court precedents require, "The evidence of the nonmovant is to be believed, and all justifiable inferences are to be drawn in his favor." Ande…
23-1123 In Re Lawyers For Fair Reciprocal Admission 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment judicial-recusal local-court-rules local-rules rules-enabling-act supervisory-power third-circuit The patchwork of nonuniform District Court local rules that deny general admissions privileges to lawyers licensed in forty-nine states is challenged …
23A309 Aaron Mohanlal v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied AEDPA habeas-corpus local-rules page-limits pro-se-prisoner section-2254 Question not identified.
23-244 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process free-speech judicial-admission local-rules nonuniform-standards professional-speech standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Has the Petitioner established good cause for this Court to issue a writ of certiorari before judgment because the nonuniform local rules directly con…
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER …
21-875 Harry Barnett v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-power local-rule local-rules procedural-authority separation-of-powers Whether a district judge has the power to enact a local rule that contravenes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
21-507 Lawyers United Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-06 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2071 28-usc-2072 attorney-licensing bar-association constitutional-rights district-court district-court-licensing judicial-council local-rules rule-making-authority 1. The first question presented is whether Local Rules that on their face create classes of citizens and lawyers exceed the rule-making authority of t…
21-205 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act administrative-record default-judgment department-of-labor frap-17 local-rules res-judicata sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Should an unopposed default judgement be granted because the Department of Labor ("DOL ") did not submit the full administrative record to the cou…
20-7466 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure cost-waiver costs court-discretion deposition-costs indigency local-rules waiver 1. Whether a party wavies costs if it does not file a bill of cost on time pursuant to local rules? 2. Whether a district court should consider a par…
20-1075 John Robert Reichard, et ux. v. Russell A. Brown, Chapter 13 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-13-bankruptcy due-process federal-statutory-interpretation local-rules privacy privacy-protection tax-return-confidentiality tax-returns Whether the privacy protections due Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtors' income tax returns pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §521(g)(2), and implemented by the Directo…
19-1005 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re…
19-478 Amadou Sowe v. Pall Corporation Second Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1746 affidavit affidavit-substitution age-discrimination civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure local-rule-violation local-rules owbpa perjury-statute summary-judgment sworn-declaration unsworn-declaration Even though the Plaintiffs counter statement is not accepted because of local rule violation, can the Plaintiffs counter statement still be used to sh…
19-6197 Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation 1) Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in Martinez v. United States , that the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions, inconsistent …
19-5399 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP cestui-que civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal dismissals federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure local-procedural-rules local-rules pendent-jurisdiction standing (pendent jurisdiction): a. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedures of the Court of Appeals for the Second C…
19-5398 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure internal-operating-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-claims local-rules pendent-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing 1. Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i), L.R. 40.2 and 22 NYCRR §500.20(d) (pendent jurisdiction): Will the Court provide for questioning upon Fed…
18-6601 Stefone Dwayne Palomo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-review appeal appeal-rights appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit-rules frivolous frivolous-issues ineffective-assistance local-rules merits right-to-appeal sua-sponte-dismissal I. Does Petitioner's right to an appeal require either a decision on the merits or an Anders review with a finding that all issues are frivolous? II.…
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations 1. In 198 7 petitioner Guy Rowland was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the State of California . In 1994 he exhausted his state remedies…