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25-6441 Kamlesh Banga v. Lawrence R. Lustig Second Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending IFP article-three judicial-recommendation magistrate-judge objection-standard procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Whether a district court violates 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) and Article III when it adopts a magistrate judge's recommendation through complete judicia…
25-94 Angela DeBose v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-error district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-judge motion-to-dismiss rule-65 (1) Whether the district court properly dismissed and closed the case if the Plaintiff-Petitioner filed in the wrong court, rather than transfer it …
24A906 Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation Fifth Circuit 2025-03-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se Question not identified.
24A733 Joshua Gunnar Olson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-27 Presumed Complete court-authority federal-appeals-court jurisdictional-challenge magistrate-judge procedural-forfeiture writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-6392 Joseph Raymond McCoy v. Angel Gonzales, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP district-court judicial-review legislative-intent magistrate-judge procedural-fairness summary-judgment 1. Whdb statutory time period is computed from a particular day sr^v&ntf First day is excluded and the last day included. Does this apply also to the …
24-27 Next Generation Technology, Inc., et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure de-novo-review district-court federal-magistrates-act federal-procedure judicial-review magistrate-judge subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-objections 1. Can arguments in support of a court's subject-matter jurisdiction be waived? 2. The Federal Magistrates Act provides that a "judge of the [distric…
23-1216 Moliere Dimanche, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-constitution civil-consent-jurisdiction civil-procedure election-interference federal-magistrate-act federal-magistrates-act judicial-conflict-of-interest magistrate-judge thompson-v-clark void-conviction writ-of-prohibition 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that the Writ of Prohibition was frivolous? 2. Does the Federal Magistrate's Act contempl…
23-912 Dora L. Adkins v. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate-judge standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ("Fourth Circuit") properly AFFIRMED the district court's and magistrate judge's orders. Pet.…
23-887 In Re Eugene Misquith 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review magistrate-judge magistrate-review procedural-fairness Did the Opinion of The Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, namely: "After reviewing the briefs and the record, we find no error, And we affirm th…
23-6513 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction recusal rule-11-sanctions standing Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s…
23-6140 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2023-11-30 Pending IFP 28-usc-636 civil-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-conspiracy judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge venue-change Whether the District Court's dismissal order must be reversed and remanded to a neutral District Court when it is undisputed and no appellees objected…
23-5928 Michael David Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process initial-appearance judicial-procedure legal-representation magistrate-judge right-to-counsel 1. Can a magistrate judge at an initial appearance force counsel upon a defendant who has never waived his rights and never participated in the right …
23-5633 Demetrius Verardi Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process factual-error judicial-procedure magistrate-judge objection-standard report-and-recommendation waiver In United States v. Raddatz , 447 U.S. 667 (1980), this Court made clear that the designation of authority to a magistrate judge to conduct evidentiar…
23-5401 Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing Why did Erin Wilder-Doomes, U.S. Magistrate Judge grant service by U.S. Marshall's office Rule (4)(c)(3)i then said that cleric of court is directed t…
23-5268 Marc Amouri Bakambia v. Paul Schnell, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation summary-judgment I. Whether the provision of the 28 U.S.C. 636 requires the district court judge to prevent the assigned magistrate judge from issuing a report and re…
23-5169 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s…
22-7375 R. J. Kulick v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-authority magistrate-judge pro-per-status procedural-fairness report-and-recommendations standing The USDC & USCA-9 denied Kulick's right to Due Process by NOT Addressing Clause "(5) Filing Of Magistrate Judge's Report And Recommendations Before Th…
22-819 Franz Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard magistrate-judge markman-test patent patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation 35 U.S.C. § 282(a) provides that "[a] patent shall be presumed valid." This Court has ruled that when a court reviews validity of a patent, the presum…
21-7952 Steven P. Grados v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-assignment magistrate-judge procedural-error recusal retaliation third-circuit-court-of-appeals 1. Is it proper for Trial Judge, Kim R. Gibson, to "assign" a non consent Magistrate Judge, Keith A. Pesto, who works out of the same Courthouse as Ju…
21-7187 Paul E. Jozwiak v. Raytheon Missile Systems, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alternative-service civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-restrictions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure jurisdictional-authority magistrate-judge service-of-process This Case Raises Federal Questions Under Article III, Section 2 Of The U.S. Constitution Which Provides That Federal Courts Are To Hear Cases "Arising…
21-7164 Charles Pyne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination 1. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue where there is a conflict in the Circuits concerning the ability to employ Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) b…
21-635 Larry Fields v. Cincinnati, Ohio Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure magistrate-judge standing trial-fairness 1. Whether the magistrate judge intended violation of the federal rules of civil Procedure? 2. Whether petitioner constitutional rights where viola…
21-562 Kenneth A. Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights default-judgment due-process government-authority injunctive-relief magistrate-judge paris-climate-accord standing ultra-vires uncac As used herein, "Respondent Ultra Vires Actor " (RUVA) means any Respondent, either individual or agency, not acting within authorized scope of offici…
20-6550 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech magistrate-judge school-discipline standing student-speech I. D(0M)T UVmA^Cr me jwGe v»£*fe f!eNi>?£0 a1* <J.$T ttss^stj c\cxihs <5- ■# tiw TH£ LQteytA 9-oP- CMftAOgrA) 4L G>^ RgSPdAiP^wt To rm (te<jugS7 Mtrn…
20-5749 Elijah Hart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu…
20-5746 Brandon Thomas Finnesy v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-636 consent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea judicial-consent magistrate-judge statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(3) authorizes a federal magistrate judge to accept a guilty plea with the parties' consent?
19-1423 George Vortman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
19-8603 Melvin P. White, Jr. v. Internal Revenue Service Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-docket-entry civil-procedure constitutional-challenge district-court-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-review notice-and-certification procedural-standards record-keeping standard-of-review Did THE US.DISIRET CF. CITRK EAI TH ENTER PETITION FoR REVIEW ST. CT, CASENG LXCYDI6T FUOCE ORDER FoR MONEY OWED IN THE cai DOCKET ? PCLoRDIWE TC FR …
19-8031 James Allen Gregg v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure credibility credibility-determination district-court due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review magistrate-judge procedural-fairness witness Is a defendant's due process rights adequetLy protected when a district judge rejects a magistrate judge's proposed findings on credibility when those…
19-7991 Oscar Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP article-iii-judge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-magistrates-act guilty-plea magistrate-judge rule-11 Whether or not a magistrate judge can fully and finally accept a felony guilty plea with the defendant's consent such that it cannot be withdrawn for …
19-7886 Dennis Mahon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing The question presented, then, is whether the lower courts err in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason co…
19-7521 Elisha Paul Harley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission free-speech judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case legal-review magistrate-judge magistrate-procedure racist-comments review standing Whether a trial court may depart from the law of the case on an evidentiary ruling after a mistrial when the initial legal ruling was not clearly erro…
19-7112 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist…
19-7053 Jason Dean Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers…
19-6890 Kevin Lamont Pearson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure final-revocation-hearing magistrate-judge probable-cause procedural-review revocation-hearing rule-32.1 standing Does the plain text of Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure bar a district court from considering an alleged violation at a final revo…
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule (1). Whether this Court should exercise its discretionary certiorari jurisdiction and grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case…
19-6187 Jon Kaiser v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP affiant-misconduct affidavit child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review lascivious-exhibition magistrate-judge probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant When an agent-affiant intentionally or recklessly omits the images of purported child pornography from a search warrant application in a case alleging…
19-6008 David W. Tippens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
19-5748 Seth Mitchell v. Macy's, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-motion disability-accommodation due-process employment-discrimination erisa federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment hipaa magistrate-judge motion-to-amend timeliness title-vii 1. When, if ever, can a magistrate judge assigned to handle nondispositive matters in a Federal lawsuit intentionally violate Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
19-5357 Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t…
19-5339 James Kenneth Ganzer, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-authority magistrate-judge search-warrant void-ab-initio Can the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that was void ab initio, and therefore without lega…
18-1547 Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied 28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Ninth Circuit—in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit—erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from …
18-9075 Ponce D. Howard v. Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict conflict-of-evidence declaration-conflict declarations investigation investigation-findings magistrate-judge procedural-review summary-judgment workplace-policy Did the Magistrate Judge assigned to the case for the United States Court for the Middle District of Alabama, the District Court, and the Eleventh Cir…
18-9023 Keith Clayton Brooks Jr. v. David Gabriel, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-collateral-order-doctrine collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-violations due-process enlargement-of-time federal-relief habeas-corpus magistrate-judge prison-litigation prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner standing The appeal was determined to be taken in bad-faith on the following issues: First, an issue of first impression raises the question of whether the co…
18-8626 Aaron Murray v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process federal-criminal-procedure initial-appearance magistrate-judge plea-bargaining plea-hearing right-to-counsel Was Petitioner Aaron Murray Entiteled to an initial apperanc.e. before a United States Magistrate Judge under Fed. R. Criminal P Rule 5? How was Peti…
18-8174 Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order Should this Supreme Court Grant Certiorari, to determine this question of first impression "Dose the specific langauge of Federal Habeas Corpus Rule 8…
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-7791 Joyce Ann Smith v. City of Princeton, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-dismissal civil-mediation civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court due-process magistrate-judge mediation procedural-review reconsideration settlement settlement-dispute standing towing District Court Final Decision of Petitioner not having a claim, but there is a claim. District Court Magistrate Judge Decision of not allowing the Pe…
18-7354 Derrick L. Johnson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-magistrate-act magistrate-judge notice procedural-rules service service-of-process sixth-circuit supervisory-power Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to exercise it's supervisory power to establish a rule that preclude a United States District Magistrate Judge f…
18-6875 Kendall Thrift v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh…
18-6847 Sergio Antonio Haro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing government-agent-reports impeachment impeachment-of-credibility magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-plea-negotiations plea-negotiations prejudice pro-se pro-se-habeas sixth-amendment I Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel based on trial counsel's failure to effectively use gover…
18-6507 Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECIDED IN BERGER THE JUDGE TO RETIRE FROM THE CASE WHEN THE AFFIANT BELIEVES THAT THE JUDGE HAS A PERSONAL BIAS OR PR…
18-5771 Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a conflict among the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and find that the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming Petitioner…
18-5134 Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules PURSUANT TO USCS RULE 10(a) AND (c), HAS THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION WHICH CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN DAY v. M…