mailbox-rule

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25-187 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split evidentiary-presumption federal-rule-of-evidence mailbox-rule state-law-preemption In 2021, Petitioner discovered that New York City had issued him a notice of violation in 2015. When he filed this lawsuit to challenge the constituti…
24A1137 Braun Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-22 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment legal-mail mailbox-rule prisoner-rights supreme-court Question not identified.
23-7077 Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing 1. Is this decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in ruling that the Petitioner's appeal was untimely is in direct conflict with this court in…
23-6429 Jan M. Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies due-process free-exercise free-exercise-clause mailbox-rule property-rights religious-exercise rluipa summary-judgment WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DISTRICT-COURT -FAILED TO UTILIZE THE,"MAILBOX RULE", WITHIN PLAINTIFFS TIMELY SUBMISSION OF HIS ADMINISTRATIVE RE-MEDIES/EXHAUS…
23-6273 Eugene Lucas v. J. N. Ottinger, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure diligence due-process judicial-discretion legal-filing mailbox-rule prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-rights procedural-diligence Can a district Court negate the Prison mailbox rule by finding A prisoner did not show diligence in Following up on his filing to prison Authorities?
23A537 Armin Wand, III v. Becky Kramer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete extension-of-time incarcerated-litigant mailbox-rule pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
22-6939 Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default Can a Clerk of a federal appellate court refuse to file a pleading by a State habeas petitioner seeking a Panel Rehearing from the denial of an applic…
22-5240 Robert C. Del Cid v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-taint counsel-of-choice due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mailbox-rule standing voir-dire I. WHETHER OR NOT THE EQUITABLE TOLLING, THE MAILBOX RULE ENTITLES PETITIONER FOR RELIEF WHEN THE SUPREME COURT, AS WELL AS THE LOWER COURTS ACCORD DE…
21-221 Blake Cretacci v. Joe Call, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied civil-rights counsel-communication court-of-appeals-split due-process federal-law legal-representation mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-representation pro-se-filing standing In Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988), this Court held that filings by prisoners receive the benefit of the mailbox rule, which means that a prisone…
20-7657 David Erike MacLloyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-standard standing I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue because the Sixth Circurit failed to apply the Pro Se litigant standard to a Pro Se Defendant 's pleadings?
20-6229 Jerry Earl Johnson v. Erin McReynolds Nevada 2020-11-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mailbox-rule pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations In a state does the ceeding Court Civil P of the Complaintg mailbox Rule apply to filing litigant, Submits When the pro-se [incrrcerafed] the Cinil Co…
19-7582 Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing My question Des roof of) Prison mail Log (2) Prisone declaration oficer who receives DosumentFrom Prisoner for mailing, acknowledementof receivin docu…
19-488 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held, in conflict with precedents in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that under 26 CFR §301.750…
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to ALL Notices of Appeal, that must be filed in the trial court, particularly for pro se Prisoner litigants? Sh…
19-5068 Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation I. WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL(S) DECISION WAS IN CONTRARY WITH U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT, BY FAILING TO LIBERALLY CONSTRUE THE MAILB…
18-8929 In Re Lavont Flanders, Jr. 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus indictment-amendment mailbox-rule postal-service-error pro-se-filing pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have considered Petitioner's timely filed Amended Certificate of Appealability and Motion to Expand the A…
18-1260 Jessica Cooke v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation Whether the common-law "mailbox rule" applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a).
18-8595 Charles Kenneth Wallace, Sr. v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-03-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process filing-deadline free-speech legal-procedure mailbox-rule petition-timing standing takings DID WE 44 Sego-Ghi deny CEertkelatr AS emtimels ) whew vuder malbex rule is , timely hifed ? J3 s7 THE sone/76e JATTY. CEVERALS DpeTy ge PRESS 7HS C…
18-8545 Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-8096 Antonio R. Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court houston-v-lack mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se timeliness timely-filing DOES THE PRESUMPTION OF TIMELINESS TO BE ACCORDED THE PETITIONER'S PRO SE NOTICE OF APPEAL UNDER THE "MAIL BOX" RULE OF HOUSTON v. LACK, 487 U.S. 266 …
18-6291 Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness -Is the issue 'j accordingly of great import to potentially thousand's of prisoners similarly situated and does if have significant impact on the publ…
18-5758 Annamalai Annamalai v. Parvathi Sivanadiyan Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-68 dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice federal-rule-68 federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules frivolous frivolous-complaint judgment-offer mailbox-rule offer-and-acceptance offer-of-judgment prejudice prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing Whether a district court can dismiss a complaint filed under 9 U.S.C.4 as frivolus and can dismiss with prejudice, after " the' mailing " of an "uncon…