rule-11-sanctions

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-882 Andrew D. Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending district-court-discretion election-litigation first-amendment legal-procedure political-speech rule-11-sanctions Petitioners brought claims on behalf of candidates in advance of the 2022 election, challenging the procedures Arizona would use to count votes in tha…
25A1 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete bad-faith civil-procedure discretionary-power eighth-circuit rule-11-sanctions standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-6513 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction recusal rule-11-sanctions standing Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s…
23-497 L. Lin Wood v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived attorney-ethics attorney-liability civil-procedure due-process federal-civil-procedure frivolous-pleading of-counsel rule-11 rule-11-sanctions safe-harbor-period sanctions standing 1. Whether an attorney whose name is designated as "Of Counsel" on the signature page of a frivolous pleading that the attorney did not sign, file, su…
23-181 Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal district-court-discretion federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standards rule-11-sanctions sanctions settlement sua-sponte-sanctions 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Petitioner sua sponte pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 11 after settlem…
23-5169 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit —in direct conflict with the Seventh Circuit —erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from s…
20-1363 Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 If this Court determines in Case No. 20-773 that the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the award of attorney fees as sanctions under Rule 11, should …
20-1024 Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. Kentucky 2021-01-28 Denied appellate-procedure civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigation rule-11-sanctions rule-12-dismissal sanctions standing 1) If a trial court never construes the allegations in a civil complaint favorably to the plaintiff or never construes them at all, are all of its Civ…
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…
18-1228 Barbara Mrzlak Brundo v. Christ the King Church of Omaha Eighth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation due-process employment estate-administration estate-litigation frivolous-litigation judicial-retaliation ministerial-exception probate-court retaliation rule-11-sanctions Whether the Rule 11 sanctions paid by petitioner for the alleged frivolous complaints from 2001 and yet unresolved, should be returned with interest a…
18-7916 Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether a state court has the right to bar a litigant of having access to the courts? Whether due process violations toll the state's statute of limi…