party-presentation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6745 | Linda Sun v. D.C. Office of Employee Appeals, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | administrative-law due-process fraud-on-court judicial-integrity mandate-rule party-presentation | 1. Whether a court's inherent power to set aside a judgment for fraud on the court — as preserved in Super. Ct. Civ. R. 60(d) — is subject to a "reaso… |
| 25-900 | Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft | 1. Whether SMCA's prohibition that "no salvage rights or awards shall be granted" bars all admiralty salvage claims—including long-recognized in perso… | |
| 25A859 | Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | excessive-force party-presentation qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment taser-use | Question not identified. | |
| 25-867 | Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe… | |
| 25-820 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver | Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel… |
| 25-767 | Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Amici (2) | csra-preclusion district-court party-presentation personnel-actions summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed for violating the party-presentation principle. 2. Whether the decision below should be su… |
| 25-657 | Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power | Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner 's appeal, constituted such a substantial departure fro… |
| 25-6269 | Lairon Graham v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation plea-agreement | 1. Whether the right to due process on appeal is violated where, despite a criminal defendant-appellant's repeated invocations of the party presentati… |
| 25A531 | John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | appellate-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal merits-determination party-presentation procedural-rule sua-sponte | Question not identified. | |
| 25A530 | John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | appellate-procedure due-process jurisdictional-rule merits-determination party-presentation sua-sponte | Question not identified. | |
| 25A313 | Lairon Graham v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit | Whether, by signing a plea agreement with a generic appeal waiver, a criminal defendant waives his right to challenge his attorney's past, present, an… | |
| 25-52 | Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from granting habeas relief on any claim alleged by a habeas petiti… |
| 25A19 | Adrian Goudelock v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure jury-selection party-presentation prosecutorial-theory wholesale-exclusion | This case presents exceptionally important questions relating to the principle of party presentation and the extent to which federal courts of appeals… | |
| 24-6740 | Royel Page v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review | I. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to Direct Sales Co. v. United States, 319 U.S. 703… |
| 24-588 | Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction party-presentation state-proceedings younger-abstention | 1. Does the endorsement by the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals (among others) to raising Younger abstention sua sponte at the District Court or Court … |
| 24-417 | National Association of Realtors v. United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-10-15 | Denied | contract-withdrawal government-rights illusory-promises party-presentation statutory-interpretation unmistakability-doctrine | Whether the United States enjoys greater rights than a private party to withdraw from a contract based solely on its determination that it no longer w… | |
| 23-1057 | Paul Johnson v. Matthew Tepper | Texas | 2024-03-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-neutrality party-presentation pro-se pro-se-plaintiff sua-sponte sua-sponte-arguments supreme-court-review | Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the actions of a Texas Court of Appeals, which departed from its role as a neutral arbiter by enga… |
| 22-934 | Dale Sundby, Trustee v. Marquee Funding Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | civil-procedure court-of-appeal due-process judgment party-presentation precedential-ruling property-rights standing sua-sponte trustee-representation | This case concerns a revocable family trust represented by a non-lawyer trustee, which prevailed on the merits in the district court. Neither the dist… | |
| 22-6851 | David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction | (1) Under these circumstances, does a court of appeals violate the fundamental principles of party presentation and Petitioner's due process rights? … |
| 22-6842 | Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine | Massachusetts | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bedrock-of-jurisprudence court-procedure federal-courts jurisprudence litigation-principle neutral-arbiter party-presentation sineneng-smith state-courts united-states-v-sineneng-smith | Does the Principle of Party Presentation in which courts shall be a "neutral arbiter of matters the parties present "- called a bedrock of American ju… |
| 22-6593 | Steven C. Heiser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability certiorari-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus limitations-defense party-presentation statute-of-limitations sua-sponte | Mr. Heiser humbly asks this Honorable Court to invoke its judicial discretion and consider the following questions: 1. THIS COURT SHOULD EXERCISE ITS… |
| 21-8256 | Ortaz Sharp v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by permi… |
| 21-8249 | Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation | I. Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the principle of party presentation by adjudicating a habeas corpus petition under § 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-1468 | Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-23 | Denied | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion party-presentation sineneng-smith standing sua-sponte | Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by sua s… | |
| 21-6717 | Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-aid fourth-amendment greenlaw-v-united-states party-presentation warrantless-search | 1. Whether the "principle of party presentation" articulated in Greenlaw v. United States, is violated where: (1) the prosecution defends a warrantles… |
| 21-5084 | Donald H. Kimball v. Altoona Police Department, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process party-presentation second-amendment section-1983 | 1) The Supreme Court recently upheld a ruling unanimously holding that the Ninth Circuit "departed so drastically from the principle of party presenta… |
| 20-1135 | Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. | Connecticut | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights contempt due-process free-speech judicial-authority party-presentation | American courts possess an inherent supervisory authority over their proceedings. They exercise that authority through orders and, if necessary, sanct… |
| 20-7012 | Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith | Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of… |
| 20-6417 | Edwin Omar Almonte-Nunez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2112 abuse-of-discretion counsel-substitution crime-of-violence double-jeopardy due-process party-presentation resentencing sentencing-review | Did the district court adequately vet Mr. Almonte-Nuñez's dissatisfaction with his counsel? Was the denial of his request for substitution an abuse of… |
| 20-521 | Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review party-presentation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-district-court | 1. Did any Petitioner/Plaintiffs named in the three complaints filed with the District Court allege sufficient personal concrete and particularized ha… |
| 20-479 | David C. Shinn v. Ryan Robert Baker | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | adversarial-system appellate-procedure case-transformation civil-procedure gvr judicial-restraint ninth-circuit party-presentation sineneng-smith summary-reversal | 1. Whether this Court should reverse the decision below under Sineneng-Smith. 2. Whether this Court should grant, vacate and remand in light of Sinen… |
| 20-456 | Michael Elder v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-procedure official-misconduct party-presentation search-and-seizure supervisee-rights supervisee-search suspicionless-search | 1. Whether the Second Circuit violated the party presentation principle articulated in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020) when, i… | |
| 20-5826 | Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte | 1. In United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575, 1578 (2020), this Court held that the Ninth Circuit "departed so drastically from the principl… |
| 19-8873 | Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine | 1. Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife , 504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992), that a litigant have suffered an "actual or imminent" injury apply t… |
| 19-1359 | Michelle Dawn Murphy v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | an abuse of discretion because it violates the pa and wrong factually about the issue it reached ou which was based on an issue not presented on appe abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process party-presentation sineneng-smith standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit united-states-v-sineneng-smith | Is the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of summary judgment in favor of Defendant -Appellee City of Tulsa, which was based on an issue not presented on appe… | |
| 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… |
| 18-9188 | Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle | Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente… |