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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6861 | Kyuhwan Hwang v. Jerry Quezada Arita, et al. | Tennessee | 2026-02-19 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process judicial-crime rule-of-law victim-protection | 1. When and where both hybrid crime and judicial crime exist in such extreme cases including this case, how should the Constitution of the United Sta… |
| 25-832 | Bonnie Michelle Smith v. Shirley Smith | Georgia | 2026-01-13 | Pending | constitutional-law judicial-activism legislative-interpretation policy-making rule-of-law separation-of-powers | 1) Does judicial activism violate the separation of powers? 2) Can the Court act as a super legislature that imposes its own policy preferences rathe… | |
| 24-5779 | Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-10-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure court-discretion error-waiver legal-interpretation procedural-rules rule-of-law | [I]. WHETHER THE COMMONWEALTH COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION OR COMMITTED AN ERROR OF LAW, BECAUSE APPLYING Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) TO CONCLUDE WAIVER OF ERROR … |
| 23-7761 | Eddie L. Hatch, Jr., et ux. v. Tom Barrett, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct mail-tampering political-corruption pro-se-litigation rule-of-law | Will Justice be provided by the Federal Courts to these Pro se, Minority Entrepreneurs during an ongoing conspiracy and media cover-up with evidence o… |
| 23-5650 | Lijo Panghat v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process national-security public-interest rule-of-law standing title-ix whistleblower-protection | Whether the illegal denial of 'Due Process ' to Petitioner and the harm being persistently inflicted upon him, violates the rights promised by the U.… |
| 23-277 | Usha Soujanya Karri v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention bribery civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law criminal-cover-up judicial-misconduct murder-conspiracy procedural-technicality rule-of-law | 1. Is it lawful when the Trial Court cites 'absten tion grounds ' and refuses to order for investigation as per the 'Rule of Law ', as Chicago Polic… |
| 23-5366 | Ricky Alan Deephouse v. Wyoming | Wyoming | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence illegal-opinion-issuance judicial-review rule-of-law single-justice-opinion state-court-procedure state-power-abuse state-supreme-court wyoming-rules-of-evidence | 1. DID THE STATE SUPREME COURT IN THIS MATTER ABUSE ITS POWER? 2. DID THE STATE SUPREME COURT IN THIS MATTER MISUSE ITS POWER? 3. DID THE STATE SUPR… |
| 23-114 | Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Third Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit | 1) Did the decision of the of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of … |
| 23-5214 | Cody J. Key v. Florida | Florida | 2023-07-26 | Denied | IFP | codification constitutional-provisions due-process federal-judicial-canon judicial-canon legislative-power notice rule-of-law rule-of-strict-construction state-legislature statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS/NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OF A FEDERAL JUDICIAL CANON (RULE OF STRICT CONSTRUCTION) CAN BE ABROGATED BY A STATE LEGISLATURE BY CODIF… |
| 22-7830 | Steven Nicholson v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-circuit constitutional-rights diminished-capacity due-process federal-circuit-courts michigan-law rule-of-law voluntary-intoxication | Does the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals position to acquiesce to MCL 768.37 by not interfering with Michigan's jurisdiction conflict with how multiple U… |
| 22-1176 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction rule-of-law standing | Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an improper Order stating the Court had no j… |
| 22-7556 | R. J. Kulick v. Patrick Soon-Shiong, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | IFP | 9th-circuit civil-procedure constitution constitutional-rights discretionary-exception due-process greater-good judicial-procedure judicial-process rule-of-law | 1. Petitioner was denied due process in U.S. Court Of Appeals, For The for Extension of Time, in reply to 9th Circuit in Form 14. Motion: this 9th Cir… |
| 22-1030 | Gary Lewis v. United Automobile Insurance Company, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism insurance-law insurance-regulation judicial-procedure jury-trial rule-of-law | The question presented is whether the constitutional right to a jury trial can be usurped by the trial court and appellate court interfering with the … |
| 22-6946 | Clement Mosseri v. 7 West 21 LI LLC | Second Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process government-immunity judicial-immunity legal-standing rule-of-law standing | 1. Judicial immunity and any other immunities by the government, its employees and officials conflict with the Constitution of the United States and i… |
| 22-780 | Scott Meide, et al. v. Noah Centineo, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review brief-requirements civil-rights court-obligations due-process judicial-discretion judicial-independence judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law separation-of-powers | 1. Do we have a government of laws and not of men? 2. Must a deciding panel in a court of appeals address all of the issues raised in the opening bri… |
| 22-763 | Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence cross-examination due-process evidence fraud-on-the-court judicial-procedure rule-of-law sanctions | Whether the Sixth Circuit panel's decision to affirm the District Court decision that was based on the "application of the wrong legal test" constitut… |
| 22-590 | Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii | 1. Is it an important federal question of law for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether U.S. Courts of Appeal should be permitted to issue "NOT P… |
| 22-6380 | Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. | Minnesota | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation | 1.) Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion? (a) The C… |
| 22-6367 | Randall Bernard Allen v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-action individual-rights rule-of-law standing takings | Where government, state and city administrations are regulators, can The Rule of Law, and U.S.Constitutional rights be abandoned for those administrat… |
| 22-6040 | William H. Wyttenbach v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | article-iii-court civil-procedure conclusions-of-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process findings-of-fact fourth-circuit-court jurisdiction rule-of-law | Question: Has the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court and the lower court violated all three foundational corner stones of Rule of Law; Jurisdiction, Fin… |
| 22-390 | Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-rights attorney-fees attorneys-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-sanction limited-jurisdiction rule-of-law sanctions | (1) Can a limited jurisdiction court of California award attorneys' fees in excess of its jurisdictional limit of $10,000.00? (2) Is it justified to … |
| 22-122 | Philip Snyder v. Tenth Presbyterian Church | Pennsylvania | 2022-08-09 | Denied | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process factual-findings legal-review pennsylvania-law rule-of-law standard-of-review superior-court | 1) Did the decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly stated rule of law… | |
| 21-7941 | Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank | New Hampshire | 2022-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata rule-of-law state-court-jurisdiction summary-judgment | 1. Having legally granted Pro Se Defendant's/Petitioner's, Linda A. Petralia, Motion to Dismiss with prejudice on December 2, 2020, and "(without obje… |
| 21-1101 | Allan J. Nowicki v. Tinicum Township, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud municipal-action political-agenda pro-se-litigation property-rights rule-of-law standing | (1) Is it unlawful to advance the Political agenda of a Pennsylvania Municipality by violating the Civil Rights of its resident? (2) Is it unlawful f… |
| 21-1095 | "I Am" School, Inc. v. City of Mount Shasta, California | California | 2022-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | cannabis-regulation civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights retroactive-overruling rule-of-law school-protection takings | Petitioner "I AM" School, Inc. was denied declaratory relief in which it sought the full extent of State mandated 600-foot protection from cannabis ac… |
| 21-6799 | Erich William Norris v. Brook Forest Community Association, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation racial-inequality rule-of-law state-court-procedure state-remedy texas-constitution | 1) Does patently unequal, disparate state administration of the Rule of Law and failure to provide state remedy in strict accordance with the Texas Co… |
| 21-55 | Genet McCann v. Ward E. Taleff, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights court-integrity due-process fraud judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-standards ninth-circuit rule-11 rule-of-law standing vexatious-litigant | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit 's departure from "the settled course of antecedent principles " in disregard of this Court 's and its own well-establis… |
| 21-22 | Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. | California | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-corruption judicial-independence jury-trial legal-misconduct rule-of-law standing | The value of this case is over tens of millions of dollars. Defendant obtained huge amount of illegal proceeds through illegal business pattern: wage … |
| 20-8454 | In Re Randy Dale Jackson | 2021-06-30 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question rule-of-law standing | WHETHER PETITIONER DEPRIVED EQUAL JUSTICE AND LIBERTY UNDER RULE OF LAW? HV. 6. CAN8 "Equal Rights Under The Law:" Federal Question | |
| 20-1191 | Robert Singletary v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection jurisdiction rule-of-law | A. Do The Accused hAve Righto? C.Do the Constitution guArAnted rights For Allthe people? dIS COMpLUSON PrOCESS A CONStiTUTiONAL RighT. ALONg WeTh LA… |
| 20-935 | Anne Richards, et al. v. Sam Olens, et al. | Georgia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction obstruction-of-justice rico-act rule-of-law | 1. Whether the total breakdown of Georgia's justice system —in which the state never responded to documented allegations of fraud, obstruction, briber… |
| 20-6028 | Carmencita Maria Pedro v. City Fitness, LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-duty due-process equal-protection evidence-fabrication forgery judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct rule-of-law standing | 1. If United States District Court Judges are: (a.) unable to "decipher "ox discern the falsity, inauthenticity, illegitimacy and invalidity of The FO… |
| 20-5970 | Dominique Little v. District of Columbia Public Schools, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability government-misconduct legal-liability oath-of-office official-accountability public-officials rule-of-law | Who is responsible for holding public officials of the law accountable for 1) violating a citizen of the United States God-given rights protected by t… |
| 20-5255 | Don Mashak v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment irs-authority natural-law natural-rights retaliation rule-of-law tax-enforcement | 1)At every step in the process, is it unconstitutional for Respondent Commissioner of Internal Revenue (IRS) to be punish or retaliate against any cit… |
| 20-44 | In Re David A. Golden | 2020-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process false-claims-act free-speech judicial-discretion rule-of-law standing | Whether the 9th Circuit and Western Washington District Ct. have abused their discretion by dismissing Plaintiffs False Claims complaint and appeal, w… | |
| 19-8853 | Alan Rene Sajous v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-significance due-process federalism judicial-review legal-meaning legal-validity national-principles rule-of-law standing | Does the Constitution mean anything in the United States of America anymore? |
| 19-8829 | Anastasia Purnell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation pro-se rule-of-law standing | SHOULDENT A COURT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS ABUSE OF DESCRETION WHEN IT FAILS TO FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW AS IT IS WRITTEN??? SHOULDENT A RULE OF LA… |
| 19-1302 | David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-20 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (9) | aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr… |
| 19-7989 | Roger Bryner v. Clearfield City, Utah, et al. | Utah | 2020-03-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-bias rule-of-law standing summary-judgment utah-rule-of-civil-procedure-83 | Once the "unmeritorious ... redundant, immaterial, impertinent or scandalous " bar of Utah Rule of Civil Procedure 83C(a)(l)(C) is interpreted fairly,… |
| 19-591 | Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-transparency patent reasoned-opinions rule-of-law summary-affirmation summary-affirmations | 1. Can a court ever choose to write reasoned opinions for one class of losing appellants and not another under the Due Process and Equal Protection Cl… |
| 19-5226 | Patrick Demon Caldwell, II v. Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | arizona-court-system civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief rule-of-law standing | Cose Not be Reconigzed Ho Can my W Proven Evidence is Persented if How Reconsidersation be Can denied TW when to the best of my knowledge The court Of… |
| 19-34 | Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis | New Hampshire | 2019-07-03 | Denied | attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness | 1. Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact … | |
| 18-1375 | Douglas Walter Greene v. Independent Pilots Association, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-trial rule-of-law | A National precedent setting question is asked, may Federal District & Appellate Courts render a Decision abridging First Amendment Rights to Freedom … | |
| 18-8887 | Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-19 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex post facto clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due process at … |
| 18-7463 | Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law | In the present case before the Court, the question is asked if a federal judge or justice condones the following items: I) a fraudulent misrepresentat… |
| 18-7438 | Armando A. Villa v. Robert J. Kowalski | Illinois | 2019-01-16 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure legal-profession rule-of-law standing unclean-hands | Why would the United States Supreme Court refuse to hear the Appeal of a case in which an individual, who as an "Honorable" member of the legal profes… |
| 18-7095 | Miguel Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant | Rigid legal rules are ill-suited'" to an analysis of probable cause. Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 232 (1986) (citation omitted). Did the Court of … |
| 18-6741 | Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | IFP | 18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis? |
| 18-611 | John J. Tatar v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-claim burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection frivolous-claims rule-of-law tax-evasion tax-refund | Did Petitioner—Tatar when he filed his Form(s) 843, Claim(s) for Refund concerning the tax years 1996 through and inclusive to 2010, with the Responde… |
| 18-6643 | Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision | Sobhy Iskander, a state prisoner proceeding in forma pauperis r extraordinary circumstance moves this motion on a writ of certi- orari that a state co… |
| 18-497 | Jean Coulter v. Cathy Bissoon, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal rule-of-law separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant | Have the Courts' refusal to recuse and noncompliance with criminal/civil statutes, Case Law and their Code of Conduct and the Rule of Law - resulted i… |
| 18-330 | Douglas Walter Greene v. Frost Brown Todd, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | amendment-violations constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct jury-trial perjured-witnesses perjury public-policy rule-of-law | A National precedent setting question is asked, may the Federal District & Appellate Courts knowingly & purposely render a Decision based on overwhelm… |