mandamus-review
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-544 | May Yan Chen, dba Ability Customs Broker v. Ameriway Corporation | Second Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2) | ancillary-jurisdiction common-nucleus mandamus-review rico-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the district court had exceeded its subject-matter jurisdiction when it exercised ancillary supplemental jurisdiction over a third-party co… |
| 25-355 | James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | appellate-deference bankruptcy-proceedings judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus-review standard-of-review | 1. Should a judge's order declining to recuse be reviewed de novo or for abuse of discretion? 2. When a litigant seeks review of a decision not to re… |
| 22-6982 | Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard | WHETHER MANDAMUS REVIEW ON ISSUE OF FIRST IMPRESSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO CLAIM THAT WAS CREATED BY WAY OF INTERVENING CHANGE OF FIRST STEP ACT… |
| 20-699 | Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal | Whether, as the Ninth Circuit has held, a plaintiff has an "absolute right" to voluntary dismissal under FRCP, Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), if no answer or mo… |
| 19-1010 | Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Amici (6) | civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery claw-back discovery discovery-scope document-production federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus mandamus-review proportionality relevance relevance-standard rule-26 scope-of-discovery | Whether, contrary to Rule 26(b), this Court's decisions, and the decisions of five circuits, a district court may compel a party that has not engaged … |