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25-5666 William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdictional-discovery llc-status removal 1. Whether a federal court may remand a case for lack of diversity jurisdiction based on speculation about an LLC 's citizenship without allowing ju…
24-783 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Granted Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b)(1).
24-724 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal 1. Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred b…
24A519 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraudulent-joinder post-removal-amendment removal Question not identified.
24A337 Ayton Sanchez Romero v. Merrick Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied discretionary-action due-process immigration judicial-review nationality-act removal Question not identified.
24-329 Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw…
24A107 Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Denied 28-usc-1443 civil-rights remand removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-80 Eliezer Taveras v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied claim-splitting due-process federal-jurisdiction procedural-removal removal rooker-feldman state-law state-law-claims Does the removal of a case from state to federal court, under allegations of fraudulent procedural conduct by the defendants and when the principal cl…
23-7281 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1446 civil-procedure discretion federal-jurisdiction remand remand-petition removal removal-statute state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction after the removal to the District Court? 2. Whether "the state court shall proceed no further u…
23-7212 Keith P. Sequeira, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law federal-question jurisdiction jurisdictional-grant remand removal subject-matter-jurisdiction A case was filed in State Court. It stated on its face a Federal Question. Petitioners removed to District Court. Respondent moved to remand. A reman…
23A871 Pushpa Shekar v. PHH Mortgage Group Illinois 2024-04-01 Denied federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct mortgage-servicing removal state-court sua-sponte I. Whether Illinois Supreme court could endorse a Cook county state lower court abuses and could abridge/Infringe/encroach the Federal Jurisdiction o…
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights 1. Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject matter jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject ma…
23-962 Oxnard Manor, LP, dba Oxnard Manor Healthcare Center, et al. v. Anna Sigala, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights complete-preemption covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-remedies preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-6816 Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights /. y^<l<L^g)lV/sf <3 7>/£ C&tvejr >*3 tier?**/-7bM&r*t£>/£^JY Ua/H>£'& CJ)TPi_ 4Ctf7A*SWtK gL/t-' Z/- 2.0/Zj &/£-&£> A/OT£ a//3£ zC /7> ~Zo2/ 3ttaciO£…
23-894 Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation The petitioner brought a breach of contract action in Nevada state court against the law firm which represented him in a bankruptcy filed by his ex-wi…
23-677 Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-question jurisdiction post-removal-amendment removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction This Petition presents two separate but related questions concerning the ability of a plaintiff, in an action properly removed to federal court pursua…
23-558 United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc. and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Fifth Circuit 2023-11-22 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure definite-term federal-office federal-officer nlrb-procedure removal removal-authority statutory-interpretation 1. Whether statutes that prescribe a definite term for a federal office, without providing for removal of the officer during the prescribed term, impl…
23-534 Peter Otoh v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-rule real-party-in-interest removal removal-jurisdiction securitized-trust traditional-trust trustee trustee-citizenship (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit was required to apply Navarro's rule to the Respondent, before concluding that the Respondent is the real party to th…
23-5974 Timothy Kaler v. ESA Management, LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied IFP amendment-interpretation cares-act cares-act-violation civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-conflict removal The issue here is jurisdictional and that the state matter should be heard in Federal court for the reasons detailed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for th…
23-434 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, By Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, Trustees ad Litem Third Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) CAFA cafa-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdictional-rules procedural-gamesmanship removal standing voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether plaintiffs can evade federal CAFA jurisdiction through pleading artifices, while pursuing a representative action for the purported benefit…
23-355 Donnie T. A. M. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County Fourth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1964 civil-rights-removal district-court-remand due-process removal section-1443 section-1447d standing Whether the Fourth Circuit has appellate jurisdiction when a District Court remands a case that was removed pursuant 28 U.S.C. §1443, whereas the Peti…
23-294 San Pablo Healthcare & Wellness Center, LLC v. Lynetta Westbrook Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-removal preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-141 Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Before the Court is a novel case and controversy involving a patent related conflict of laws. The case was removed from state court after the expirati…
23-5341 Regina Nachael Howell Foster v. Areya Holder Aurzada, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process removal removal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' memorandum opinion directly conflict with an opinion by other Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court…
22-7677 Francis Okiemute Akpore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-tort-claims-act immigration immigration-law jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice removal removal-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Does 8 U.S.C. 1252(g) strip the district court of subject matter jurisdiction to hear a noncitizen's FTCA claim of wrongful removal in violation of a …
22-962 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied 28-usc-1443 anti-injunction-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal finality jurisdictional-challenge remand removal statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review when finality is not reached in the District case as there is no formal written remand order i…
22-955 Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is the court-created "futility" doctrine, which allows a United States court to decide a case removed from state court even though it lacks jurisdi…
22-7072 Montoyya Sims v. Fox Ridge Apartments Michigan 2023-03-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-transfer court-of-claims due-process judicial-review jurisdiction michigan-law procedural-rules removal standing supreme-court-procedure transfer "Whether" The United States Supreme Court Should vacate The Michigan Supreme Courts Order and Transfer the individual Claim to The Michigan Court of C…
22-910 Javitch Block, LLC v. Jerome Redman Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction procedural-remand remand removal state-court-litigation waiver The questions presented are whether waiver by participation in state court litigation is a permissible basis for District Courts to decline to exercis…
22-870 Eliezer Taveras v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied civil-procedure claim-splitting district-court due-process federal-courts forum-shopping improper-claim-splitting mandamus removal removal-jurisdiction Whether a district court's decision to dismiss with prejudice an action improperly removed from state court is clear and manifest error that should be…
22-6954 Juanita Burch v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-removal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lien-extinguishment loan-management procedural-error removal summary-judgment The defendant, Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC (Rushmore) lost a hearing in the state court because they did not have a loan on the property an…
22-761 Todd Bowers v. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers, AFL-CIO Fourth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied due-process federal-question-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act motion-to-remand notice-of-removal preemption removal state-law-claims Whether it was proper for a district court to maintain federal question jurisdiction upon Notice of Removal and Response in Opposition/Motion to Reman…
22-6270 Charles H. Carter v. Gardaworld Security Services-US, et al. Maryland 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-hac-vice removal removal-procedure standing unauthorized-practice-of-law This case originated as a "adverse employment actions " event, which included a termination of employment, where Mr. Carter (hereinafter "Carter "), w…
22-524 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island First Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption public-nuisance removal state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction transboundary-harm Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused…
22-5604 John Gregory Lambros v. Federative Republic of Brazil, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-state foreign-state-defendant jurisdictional-defect motion-to-remand remand removal removal-procedure service-of-process timeliness QUESTION ONE (1): Whether an untimely "Motion for Removal" by a foreign state, 28 U.S.C. 1441(d) - 652 days to late - suffices when the non-jurisdicti…
22-5526 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-judge bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal removal-jurisdiction standing state-court "Is it a violation of the United States Constitution for a federal court to accept removal of a case from state court after thirty days or can it be e…
22-5425 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-removal federal-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation removal sanction-fees sanctions vexatious-litigant Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the…
22-5357 Deanna D. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2022-08-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights due-process ex-parte-order iv-e-funding parental-rights removal state-intervention 1.) What is the purpose of the removal of the children from the mother's care, when there is no reason for the removal of children from her care? …
22-112 Simonetta Vespucci Sutton v. Mountain High Investments, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judgment-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss motion-to-remand removal standing A. Whether The District Court Erred In Denying Petitioner's Motion To Remand When The Respondent, Realty Shares Had Failed To Meet The Statutory Requi…
22-5228 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-court civil-procedure federal-issue federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements removal removal-procedure service-of-process state-court state-court-removal state-issue Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the…
22-5157 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-hearing jurisdiction removal removal-procedure sanctions unconstitutional-rulings Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the…
22-5145 Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent 1. Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 139 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 5-4 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a c…
21-8161 Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation 1. Does berg derled equol civl Rights on the basis fOR REMOU pRSANt tO 28 USC & 1443(1)? 2. CaN A CRimIrAl stote cASE be RemovEd puRsJANt tO 28 USC &…
21-1537 Donnie T. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County Fourth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447 appellate-review civil-rights civil-rights-removal federal-officer-statute jurisdictional-review pari-materia removal removal-statute statutory-interpretation 1. Section 1447(d) of Title 28 of the United States Code expressly provides that an order remanding a case that was removed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §144…
21-7805 William Paul Burch v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant removal sanctions The legal definition of frivolous is incomplete. What should the complete legal definition of frivolous be? On an appeal to the circuit court regardi…
21-1280 In Re J. Cory Cordova 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority when it failed to review Petitioner's repeated objections to the subj…
21-1219 Estela Mabel Argueta Romero v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied administrative-law immigration immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction notice-to-appear order-of-removal removal removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who leaves the United States after receiving notice to appear at a removal hearing, but before receiving an order of removal, is …
21-1061 Courtney Kristek v. The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-discrimination diversity due-process jurisdiction removal standing Ninth Circuit affirmed jurisdiction over two insurance companies, one insurance agency, and the insured, Petitioner, when there is no complete diversi…
21-738 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-jurisdiction remand removal standing This Court has recently sought to define when 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)-(d) preclude appeals from remand orders. Carlsbad Tech., Inc. v. HIF Bio, Inc., 556 …
21-481 Betty R. Shipley v. Helping Hands Therapy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction notice-of-removal procedural-defect remand removal reply statutory-authority Whether the court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an order remanding a case to state court based on a procedural defect, when the plaintiff file…
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur This Court has recognized that while the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) reflects a federal policy of favoring arbitration, "there is no federal policy …
21-204 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response Waived bivens-claim constitutional-authority due-process first-amendment frivolous judicial-immunity removal separation-of-powers sua-sponte-dismissal Whether a District Court Judge runs afoul of due process by a sua sponte dismissal of Petitioner's Complaint without "hearing" argument and then deemi…
21-207 Behrman Capital IV, L.P., et al. v. Thomas E. Reynolds, Trustee Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied derivative-jurisdiction federal-courts lambert-run-coal-co-v-baltimore-o-r-co personal-jurisdiction removal state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the derivative jurisdiction doctrine precludes federal courts from exercising personal jurisdiction following removal from state courts that l…
20-1651 Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a diversity-destroying defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thu…
20-1144 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. 1447(d), courts of appeals generally may not review orders remanding removed cases to state court. But Section 1447(d) also states tha…
20-7013 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-02-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdiction remand removal removal-and-remand standing texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand? The decisions in this case conflict with a recent decision of this Court and…
20-6965 Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia T. Dunn Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights contempt court-fine court-fines due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-party judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal Whether the levying of a court fine against an indigent party represents a violation of constitutional Due Process. Whether a finding of contempt aga…
20-6877 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-01-14 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-law jurisdiction remand removal texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand? The decisions in this case conflict with a recent decision of this Court an…
20-783 Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-12-08 GVR Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal jurisdiction remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
20-6423 Byron Lee v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract breach-of-duty equal-protection federal-question feha feha-violation procedural-due-process removal removal-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.) Did Los Angeles' Central District of California Court or The Ninth Cir. Ct. of Appeals, commit an Equal Protection Under The Law violation or Cali…
20-615 Petra Martinez, et al. v. America's Wholesale Lender Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response Waived capacity civil-procedure claim-preclusion conflict-of-laws corporate-capacity corporate-dissolution dissolution federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit-conflict notice-of-removal removal standing 1. Is the Opinion below in conflict with the opinions of the Courts of the State of New York in that Respondent America 's Wholesale Lender is a disso…
20-589 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? Can a state-judge refuse to obey …
20-5881 Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa…
20-313 Acer America Corporation, et al. v. Intellisoft, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1451 claim-construction federal-jurisdiction gunn-v-minton inventorship patent-law removal removal-jurisdiction trade-secret (1) Where Plaintiffs' theories of trade secret ownership, misappropriation, and damages depend on deciding the patent law issues of inventorship, clai…
20-169 Lawrence Richard Metsch v. Timothy Hajdasz Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-procedure removal removal-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions sanctions stonewalling subject-matter-jurisdiction time-limit Did the Eleventh Circuit err when it affirmed the District Court's imposition of sanctions pursuant to Rule 11, for the removal by Petitioners Lawrenc…
19-8777 In Re Garvester Bracken 2020-06-22 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination jurisdiction probable-cause removal standing trial-court-jurisdiction WHETHER IN ABSENCE OF DEFENDANT AND DEFENSE COUNSEL HAVING NOT BEEN PERSONALLY PRESENT DURING ANY STAGE OF THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS DID THE TRIAL COURT H…
19-8638 Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, (Chicago IL. 60604), review and discredit a previously entered: "Certified Copy of Order of Rem…
19-1315 Nevada, et al. v. Donald Walden, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal judicial-procedure removal sovereign-immunity state-courts state-immunity Whether a state remains immune from suit after voluntarily removing a federal claim to federal court when the state is immune from such claims in its …
19-1189 BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Fourth Circuit 2020-03-31 Judgment Issued Amici (20) appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
19-1158 Airbus Helicopters, Inc. v. Mary Riggs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Amici (1) 28-usc-1442 administrative-delegation aviation-law civil-procedure delegation faa federal-aviation-administration federal-officer federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-removal removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a private party is "acting under" a federal officer and may remove under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1), where it is carrying out duties formally and …
19-895 R. Kirk McDonald v. Bellco Credit Union Colorado 2020-01-17 Denied case-removal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication procedural-integrity removal standing state-court Whether a State judge can fabricate a lie into the Record attempt­ing to prevent removal of a state case to federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441…
19-802 David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing To plead diversity of citizenship, is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on "information and belief" sufficient, or must a…
19-565 Antonio Passaro, Jr. v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied civil-procedure federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents litigation removal sovereign-immunity state-court waiver Whether, in the context of a federal claim brought in state court where the state would enjoy sovereign immunity, a state's voluntary removal to feder…
19-6438 Jose Luis Tapia-Fierro v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-diligence due-process evidence-removal federal-jurisdiction innocence-claim procedural-limitations removal standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State of Arizona's statute of limitations found in the Arizona Revised Statute ("A.R.S." 812-542) applies to a federal action in a distric…
19-6074 Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule 1. Complete-Preemption Doctrine refers to a rule that a federal statue's preemptive force may be so extraordinary and all-encompassing that it convert…
19-238 In Re Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. 2019-08-23 Denied appellate-review article-iii-standing civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction en-banc-review proposition-65 remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction (1) Whether the remand order constitutes an appealable abuse of discretion for failing to reach or resolve the jurisdictional issues raised below. (2…
19-226 Noel L. Smith v. Diane Smith Carusos Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics procedural-due-process remand remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a U.S. District Court have subject-matter jurisdiction to grant a motion that admittedly has never been served? Does a U.S. Court of Appeals hav…
19-219 Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response Waived citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee In Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods, 136 S.Ct. 1012 (2016), this Court ruled that, for diversity, a real estate investment trust was a citizen …
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal In Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (2002), the Court held that when a State voluntarily removes a case from …
19-140 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation Whether, once an appeal of a remand order has been explicitly authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the en…
18-1578 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Amici (2) cafa-removal civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-court joint-trial mass-action products-liability removal state-court state-court-proposal This Petition presents an important, unsettled, and recurring question concerning the "mass action" provisions of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)…
18-1456 William Mauldin, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Pauline Gibson, Deceased v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent-to-removal deception diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal rule-interpretation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction FIRST: Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(h)(3)1 require every federal court, including this Court, to "dismiss" this case because the federal co…
18-1352 Commerce Bank v. Beverly Williamson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-court jurisdictional-requirements original-defendant removal removal-statute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a counterclaim defendant in a state court class action is "any defendant" entitled to remove a class action which satisfies the jurisdictional…
18-1330 Gavin B. Davis v. Timothy G. O'Connor Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-disclosures civil-rights civil-rights-removal due-process interlocutory-appeal parallel-claims removal removal-action state-criminal-proceeding Whether (a) a State-to-Federal Removal Action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1443, expressly reserved for supplemental jurisdiction inside of (b) a 42 U.S.C.…
18-8795 Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause?
18A1000 Parviz Karim-Panahi v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-01 Presumed Complete district-court federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure pro-se removal writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-1190 DoctorDirectory.com, LLC, et al. v. Davis Neurology, P.A. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1446 article-iii federal-court jurisdictional-timing notice-of-removal other-paper removal removal-statute second-removal spokeo-v-robins standing state-court statutory-interpretation thirty-day-deadline Whether the thirty-day deadline for filing a notice of second removal from a state court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(3) can begin and expire in fe…
18-8178 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. David Liebel, et al. Indiana 2019-02-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure exceptions federal-court federal-removal judicial-discretion jurisdiction multi-defendant procedural-rules removal state-court unrelated-claims Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 18 allows a case with unrelated claims to be removed from state court to federal court, and, if so, the except…
18-1118 Kim Kerrigan v. Qualstar Credit Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction presumption-against-jurisdiction procedural-presumption removal removal-jurisdiction standing standing-challenge state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction washington-law When the standing of a removing defendant is challenged in the Court of Appeals must that Court directly address such standing challenge pursuant to i…
18-1051 James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department First Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C…
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment 1.)The Court of Appeal is a Court of Law. The Court reviews the trial courts and lower appellate tribunal's legal rulings for error. Did Harmful legal…
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 This case presents issues related to the failure of the 330th Family District Court, Dallas County, Texas, to observe federal jurisdiction during a re…
18-550 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva conventions.
18-502 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fraud post-removal-statute remand remand-order removal vacatur Does the post removal statute, Title 28 Section 1447, bar the vacatur of a remand order obtained by attorney misconduct and fraud? Plaintiffs were uns…
18-419 Len Boogaard, et ux., as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Derek Boogaard, Deceased v. National Hockey League, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights federal-jurisdiction forfeiture judicial-discretion pleading-requirements remand removal state-law-claims tort-law Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in usurping a states' power to adjudicate common law tort claim s originally filed in state court ,…
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-5382 Muriel Fiedler v. Mace Brindley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1441 civil-procedure civil-procedure-removal diversity-jurisdiction due-process forum-defendant-rule judicial-bias remand remand-procedures removal removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction The forum defendant rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a), provides out of state defendants protection against biases of local courts and juries by procedurally p…
25A439 William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied 28-usc-1447 diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules remand removal sua-sponte Whether due process and controlling circuit precedent require a district court to permit jurisdictional discovery before remanding a removed case when…