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25-6492 Arthur Fayne v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud 1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis). Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 conf…
25-5861 Julius Rucks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-offense fentanyl misrepresentation sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission Whether, under the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(13), a defendant's offense can be enhanced by four levels, when there is no evidence that the defendant misrep…
25-75 Crocs, Inc. v. Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Amici (1) commercial-advertising intangible-properties lanham-act misrepresentation patent-status trademark-law Whether the Lanham Act's prohibition on "misrepresent[ations]" as to "nature, characteristics, [or] qualities" extends to misrepresentations about the…
24-510 Kevin Abbey, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied federal-tort-claims-act misrepresentation negligence-claims sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction toxic-exposure Whether Petitioners' negligence claims "aris[ e] out of … misrepresentation," and thus are barred by section 2680(h) of the FTCA , even though Petitio…
24-262 Stacy Makhnevich v. Gregory S. Bougopoulos, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-09 Dismissed consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa-violation legal-standing misrepresentation unfair-practices Whether a debt collector misrepresentations to consumers that an entity (such as an Unincorporated Association) on behalf of which the debt collection…
24-5246 Lissette Salazar Napoleoni v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee, on Behalf of the Holders of the Impac Secured Assets Corp. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-1 Nevada 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure-evidence-authentication-trial-witn deed-of-trust evidence-authentication fraud-misrepresentation-errors-in-evidence integrity-of-legal-process-validity-of-legal-decis legal-scrutiny lost-note-affidavit lost-note-affidavit-reliability-credibility-incons misrepresentation ownership-rights-determination-probative-value-of- preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-evidence-authentication-discovery Is it, permissible for evidence riddled, with blatant errors to be used to infer a legal 1. decision without undergoing authentication, trial, witness…
23-1321 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud Proving federal mail or wire fraud requires proving a defendant's specific intent to defraud. A defendant's good faith that his representations are tr…
23-619 Puerto Rico Supplies Group, Inc., et al. v. Bautista Cayman Asset Company Puerto Rico 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction misrepresentation mistake puerto-rico-law relief-from-judgment rule-49.2 1. Whether Puerto Rico Courts can foreclose all access to relief from appellate court judgments despite Rule 49.2's clear language stating that Courts…
23-595 Peter R. Hall v. Michael J. Geoffrey Fulton, et al. Delaware 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process foreign-corrupt-practices-act fraud fraudulent-concealment misrepresentation state-sponsored-fraud sua-sponte treaty-obligations When a Delaware court has ruled that a Delaware company committed "a clear act of fraudulent concealment " on a foreign court and has also ruled there…
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines ' misrepresentation of the terms …
22-7238 Yousry Amin Rizk v. Edward Sandler, et al. Florida 2023-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
22-7142 William Matthew Plump v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am…
22-945 Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud 1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were…
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-690 Acquanitta L. Harris-Patterson v. Armco Steel, aka AK Steel Corporation, et al. Missouri 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) benefits-book benefits-package benefits-payments benefits-policy benefits-termination compensation-dispute death-benefits employee-benefits interest-accrued misrepresentation social-security wage-deduction There are a number of tentative questions presented by the Petitioner as following: 1. What cancel checks have been paid? And if so who were they pai…
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa 1. Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action "alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact" when the complaint contains no such alleg…
21-7760 William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants Did the Supreme Court change the Federal Courts have the eight and the doch, Sn, Protect Aself Crore Raud miscepresembation ancl misconduct and +e eig…
21-1266 Erica Talasek v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employee-benefits erisa estoppel misrepresentation summary-judgment Whether the beneficiary of an employee benefits plan can bring an equitable estoppel claim under ERISA based on misrepresentations at variance with th…
21-1023 Kay Gow v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1348 contract contract-breach federal-statute grant-application grant-funding investment-agreement investor-sophistication misrepresentation subscription-agreement wire-fraud 1. Can the provisions of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, be interpreted to criminalize a breach of a contract by grant recipient, wh…
21-6802 Tarvis Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-representation constitutional-error due-process fraud-practice fraud-upon-court fundamental-error judicial-misconduct manifest-injustice misrepresentation plea-change show-cause-order 1. Is it fraud practice upon the Court when an Assistant State Attorney misrepresents the facts of a Petitioner's Motion in their Response to a show c…
21-5362 Robert Lee Crawford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-misconduct misrepresentation pretextual-stop seizure warrantless-search A. Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless off-site forced entry search of a gunsafe is preceded by a warrantless seizure of the gunsafe f…
20-8319 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure criminal-counsel direct-appeal due-process florida-bar-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation plea-bargaining torture 1. Can same criminal counsel misrepresenting defendant in the same L.T. case, and other cases in the trial court documenting instances of "torture" t…
20-7762 Biner Ma v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules jurisdiction misrepresentation reliance standing Whether a plaintiff has standing to sue while she did not act in reliance on the defendant's misrepresentation but another party acted in reliance on …
20-6259 Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel impermissibly violated, when the district court erred in failing …
20-5159 Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment 1. ) Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment when custody of the vehicle was obtained by a misrepresentation with respect …
19-1422 Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing 1. Is it considered "misrepresentation " when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entit…
19-1395 Raleigh Rogers v. Discover Bank North Carolina 2020-06-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fraud misconduct misrepresentation new-trial north-carolina-rules pro-se relief-from-judgment DOES "PRO SE" MEAN "NO SAY " OR ARE EVEN PRO SE LITIGANTS ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT AND A NEW TRIAL PURSUANT NC §1A- 1RULE 60(b)(3) WHEN COURT…
19-8615 Vera Zhiry and Pyotr Bondaruk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination federal-statute jurisdictional-hook mail-fraud materiality misrepresentation ninth-circuit remote-connection substantial-connection 1. For the crime of mail fraud, what level of connection between the fraudulent scheme and the mailing is required to trigger the federal statute's ju…
19-7581 James Ryan Taylor and Steven Vincent Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geographic-scope good-faith-exception misrepresentation search-warrant Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to evidence seized under an invalid warrant if agents knowingly misrepresented the fact t…
19-457 Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing 1. Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud…
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing 1. Does appeals court 's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts? 2. Did the appeals court…
19-77 Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims The familiar express preemption provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") outlaws any state laws that "relate to" an …
18-1395 Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-intervention civil-rights consent-decree deception due-process intervention intervention-motion misrepresentation rule-24 statutory-rights timeliness timely-filing timely-intervention unrebutted-facts Whether a motion to intervene is timely when it is filed shortly after a would-be intervenor learns that the existing parties misrepresented that the …
18-6268 Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure 1. IS llcir. Court of Appeals required to conduct a factual deternination baring review of his constftutional claims ? 2234 petition without making a…
18-402 Anna Pezhman v. Chanel, et al. New York 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment court-denial due-process due-process-clause fraud fraud-motion judgment judgment-set-aside legal-pertinence misconduct misrepresentation motion-to-set-aside-judgment When dealing with a motion to set aside a judgment based on fraud, misconduct and misrepresentation, must a court proffer reasons for its denial or ca…