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25A927 Lowery Wilkinson Lowery, LLC, et al. v. Illinois, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-19 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act federal-rule-civil-procedure-41 personal-jurisdiction sanctions ultra-vires void-ab-initio Question not identified.
25-860 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions 1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec…
25-6525 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure legal-ethics model-rules professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics sanctions Is requesting, For sanctions inapplicable in criminal Proceedings when an or violates the Model Rules i professiona| Con uct ? Tin requesting that so…
25A733 Scott Erik Stafne v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Application appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-questions judicial-authority pro-se sanctions Question not identified.
25A606 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-11-21 Application bad-faith discovery due-process federal-courts inherent-authority sanctions Question not identified.
25-6192 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case (in hidden 5thC 20-50025) now a ripe Article III of the US Constitution bankruptcy case ready to proc…
25A559 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-13 Application bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith."
25A540 Andrew Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Application attorney-conduct due-process election-litigation first-amendment rule-11 sanctions Question not identified.
25-6056 Ruben Santoyo v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sanctions 1. Jurisdiction after appeal. Whether a district court may impose a punitive monetary sanction sua sponte after a notice of appeal has divested it of …
25A348 Adriano Kruel Budri v. Greg Patrick McAllister, et al. Texas 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure due-process pro-se sanctions texas-supreme-court Question not identified.
25-276 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure legal-standard non-signing-party reasonable-inquiry rule-11 sanctions Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 permits a court to sanction represented parties for violations of that rule. In Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic …
25A217 Geronimo Velasco v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied court-integrity due-process federal-rules judicial-estoppel phantom-hearing sanctions 1. Whether a federal district judge commits judicial estoppel by issuing contradictory orders stating that a plaintiff both "failed to appear" at a he…
24-1168 M. D., By Next Friend, Sarah R. Stukenberg, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-contempt compliance court-order due-process judicial-procedure sanctions 1. Whether civil contempt sanctions imposed through proceedings that undisputedly comported with civil due process may be affirmed even if the cont…
24-989 Cedrick Frazier, et al. v. Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied Response Waived due-process electronic-stored-information fraud-upon-court inherent-authority sanctions seventh-amendment 1. Now exists split of authority where Ninth Circuit, in Gregory v. State of Montana, 118 F.4th 1069 (9th Cir. 2024), held district court committed le…
24-552 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2024-11-18 Denied Response Waived article-three due-process fifth-amendment intervention legal-standing sanctions Whether the 7th Cir. Violated Article III of the United States Constitution and the 5th Amendment when they allowed JPMorgan Chase, to enter as a defe…
24-501 V.V.V. & Sons Edible Oils Limited v. Meenakashi Overseas, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied appellate-damages circuit-precedent due-process federal-statute frivolous-appeal sanctions 1.) May an appellate court award damages for an appeal they find frivolous when a test is espoused that is neither supported by the case precedence of…
24-233 Johnmack Cohen v. Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied attorney-conduct bad-faith civil-procedure inherent-powers rule-11 sanctions 1. Courts must find subjective bad faith to impose sanctions under inherent powers or 28 U.S.C. §1927 ("1927"). Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32 (…
24-5363 Anthony Wong v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals false-testimony federal-employee judicial-review perjury sanctions 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying the Motion for Sanctions Against the Second Defendant for Perjury and the Motion for Referral of…
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit utterly failed or abandoned its duty to engage in the GOA process with respect to four remaining COA issues: Issues One, Two…
23-1032 Gary Topolewski v. URS Holdings, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inherent-authority ninth-circuit rule-37 sanctions In Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers, 357 U.S. 197, 209 (1958) ("Societe Internationale") this…
23-823 Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing 1. Whether enforcing the statutory requirement of the appearance of conflict-of-interest, 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), will restore the public's recordlow conf…
23A662 Jacques Saade v. Fay Servicing, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure filing-restrictions judicial-economy mortgage-default pro-se-litigation sanctions Question not identified.
23-731 Kyros Law P.C., et al. v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-amendment inherent-judicial-power rules-enabling-act sanctions In judicial proceedings in United States District Courts, what Due Process mandates under United States Constitution Article III and Amendment V, Rule…
23-704 Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt decisional-law equitable-remedies federal-trade-commission ftc-act permanent-injunction rule-60(b)(6) sanctions Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 53(b), permits the Commission to obtain a "permanent injunction" in court to stop viola…
23-697 Tony Evers, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Wisconsin v. Michael Dean, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-mandate civil-procedure costs district-court fees judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-fees sanctions sanctions-motion section-1927 It is "well established that a federal court may consider collateral issues," including "motions for costs and attorney's fees," even after the underl…
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…
23-486 Sidney Powell, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure electoral-college first-amendment petition petition-clause rule-11 safe-harbor sanctions The Sixth Circuit upheld large joint-and-several monetary sanctions and bar-referral sanctions under Rule 11(c)(2) for a complaint against Michigan's …
23-5870 George Tolbert v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Seventh Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation consumer-protection discovery due-process federal-regulation foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure property-rights sanctions 1 NATIONSTAR d/b/a MISTER COOPER FAIL TO MAKE DISCLOSURE AND COOPERATE IN DISCOVERY, UNDER RULE 37 AND SANCTIONS 2.NATIONSTAR dba MR. COOPER VIOLATE…
23-5783 Edward Francis Davis v. Power Authority of the State of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-handling in-forma-pauperis judicial-precedent procedural-fairness sanctions supervisory-power Petitioner and Plaintiff-Appellant, Edward Francis Davis, believes the lower courts have "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judici…
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…
23-118 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action…
23-55 J. Cory Cordova v. Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College Board of Supervisors, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adversary-system attorney-misconduct first-amendment fraud judicial-review litigation-tactics medicare-fraud public-interest sanctions viewpoint-discrimination Litigants may not weaponize the judicial system to sanction colorable arguments that in effect insulate its conduct from legitimate judicial challenge…
23-40 Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence In considering the standards set forth in Flury, should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evid…
22-1215 Darren Thomas Delafield v. Gerard R. Vetter, Acting United States Trustee Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied attorney-client-privilege bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-sanctions due-process judicial-discretion non-compensatory-punitive-damages professional-conduct sanctions subpoena In Watts v. Indiana , 338 U.S. 49 (1949), Supreme Court Justice Jackson writes "[A]ny lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain t…
22-1140 Dr. Chinwe Offor v. Mercy Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabrication forgery fraud hospital-records mcdonnell-douglas precedent sanctions summary-judgment I. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that egregious and repetitive a…
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-1117 Charlotte Freeman, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied civil-conspiracy civil-rights conspiracy deferred-prosecution-agreements due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations jasta material-support sanctions terrorism terrorism-sanctions 1. Whether a JASTA claim for civil conspiracy requires only that acts of international terrorism be a foreseeable consequence of the terrorism sanctio…
22-1084 Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing 1. Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned under a district court's inherent authority for asserting standing on behalf of voters for damages aga…
22-7306 Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing 1. Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st amendment rights and 7th amend…
22-7294 Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment Question not identified.
22-7285 Susan Lloyd v. Thomas Pokorny, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial sanctions standing trial-procedure 1. ARE THE ORDERS FROM THE 6TH CIRCUIT VOID. SHOULD 2LLOYDS MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION BE DENIED. 2. IS A JUDGE IMMUNE FROM CIVIL LIABILITY WHEN HE H…
22-7102 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion arbitration-costs civil-procedure civil-rights discovery-order due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata sanctions standing Whether redetermination is warranted of a) my claims in Komatsu v. NTT Data , Inc., No. 15-7007 (LGS)(S.D.N.Y. May 17, 2016) (hereinafter referred to…
22-6850 Raul Mendez v. Community Health Clinics, Inc., dba Terry Reilly Health Services Ninth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure discovery-sanction dismissal-sanction due-process finality-rule judicial-discretion res-judicata sanctions usurpation-of-judicial-power writ-of-certiorari 1) Is a dismissal sanction a decision on the legal merits of the case? And does res judicata and the finality rule apply to cases dismissed as a disco…
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…
22-6405 David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usua…
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Gakuba's one—and only—§2254 habeas petition was not "frivolous" rendering the USCA-7's sanction against Gakuba of "$500" and bar from any future feder…
22-553 Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching QUESTION 1: Should Arbitrators deciding a Federal case have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure …
22-440 Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction This case presents the following question: whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts …
22-5959 William A. White v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-order document-entry due-process false-statements judicial-discretion procedural-standards sanctions standing Did the Seventh Circuit err in upholding two orders issued by United States District Judge J. Phil Grilbert of the United States District Court for th…
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 …
22-5778 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal property-rights recusal sanctions If a judge continuously refuses to recuse himself following an extreme amount of verifiable bias should another judge in a close, but separate divisio…
22-5501 In Re Eric Drake 2022-09-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation sanctions state-courts vexatious-litigant Under the First Amendment, every U.S. citizen has a right of speech (right to petition), and 42 USC §1981 (right to sue, give evidence, to be parties …
22-180 Matthew Stanek, et al. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303 Board of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-compliance civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-challenges deposition-discrimination discovery due-process equal-access law-office-accessibility sanctions 1. Whether a law office is subject to the non-dis crimination requirements of the Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12181…
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…
22-5157 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…
21-1607 Oleg Deripaska v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-orders foreign-assets-control international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-law national-emergency national-security sanctions treasury-department In 2018, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Oleg Deripaska under Executive Orders 13661 and 13…
21-8239 Lawrence L. Crawford, aka Johah Gabriel, aka Jahjah T. Tishbite v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure sanctions separation-of-powers spoliation standing (1) DOES THE FILING SUBMITTED BY THE PETITIONE (S ) UNDER CASE 20-7073 FILED BEFORE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT SERVES AS A FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENT TO AN INFORMA…
21-1513 Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III Fourth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection 1. Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an appli cable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an exemption under said statute? 2. May a …
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…
21-1331 Marcus A. Murphy v. Amanda Cameron Dalton, aka Mandy Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-discretion due-process energy-company pro-se-plaintiff sanctions tort-law Appeal of Order granting Defendant - Appellees ' Motions to Dismiss & for Sanctions, and Judgment dismissing all claims on May 6, 2021 (5-6-21), by th…
21-7550 Sharon Neal v. Natalia Neal Oregon 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection indigent involuntary-dismissal judicial-discretion sanctions 1) Is it a violation of due process to involuntarily dismiss a case with prejudice for a party's failure to pay a monetary sanction that bears no rele…
21-1029 Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. Kentucky 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-allegations defendant-sanctions dismissal due-process good-faith-findings pre-discovery-dismissal sanctions standing trial-court-dismissal I filed a lawsuit in 2019 against 33 defendants for conspiracy to rig several primary elections. 1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss all alleg…
21-776 Billy Duncan, as Next Friend of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. v. Tonya Barina, as Guardian of the Estate of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. Texas 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process guardianship jurisdiction next-friend pre-trial-sanctions sanctions standing Question No. 1: Whether the Court of Appeals' Memorandum Opinion and Judgment, dated March 31, 2021, dismissing the appeal by Charlie, by and through …
21-604 Stephen Kantos v. Leonard Major, et al. Michigan 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-right court-of-appeals dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial legal-sanction sanctions standing vicencio-v-ramirez 1. Did the court of appeals manifestly err in affirming the trial court's erroneous order that denied plaintiff his constitutional right to a jury tri…
21-524 Schlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York Connecticut 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure discovery due-process foreclosure judicial-sanctions mortgage-law notice property-rights sanctions Questions presented as follows: Granting sanctions without the court's adequate notice of its intention to impose sanctions and the opportunity to be…
21-5864 Deloris Phillips v. Columbia Luxar Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights court-system due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sanctions vexatious-litigant 1) Whether it is unconstitutional, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment- Equal Protection Clause, for any litigant alleging discrimination in the…
21-425 Riccardo Green v. Washington State Employment Security Department Washington 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-reconsideration petition-for-review sanctions state-supreme-court us-constitution washington-state-constitution 1. Whether or not the Washington State Supreme Court erred in judgement & abused discretion when it failed/refused to grant the Petition for Review un…
21-329 Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment The questions presented show conflict with Precedent of this Court and all Circuit Courts. The significant practical consequence is promotion of discr…
21-5508 Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation Upon 8/04/15 (9) Court's Denial of Petitioner's Constitutional Violation of Petitioner's USC Fourteenth Amendment due process Clause, equal protection…
21-5126 Kevin Tyrell Beach v. Florida Florida 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process irreparable-harm mistrial pro-se pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sanctions Does it constitute "bad faith conduct " of "abuse of discretion ' when a judge denies a defendant 's numerous pre-trial requests for "stand-by " couns…
20-1600 Sae Han Sheet Co., Ltd. v. Eastman Performance Films, LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure contract-action dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-sanctions legal-procedure sanctions warnings 1. The district court below dismissed Petitioner's complaint with prejudice based upon a false representation made by Respondent and without providing…
20-1542 Michael Mogan v. Jeff Henry, et al. California 2021-05-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment arbitration attorney california-court due-process prevailing-party sanctions Whether a California Court is permitted to impose sanctions against an attorney without violating his rights to Due Process under the 5th and 14th Ame…
20-7860 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law pro-se-litigant property-rights sanctions statutory-interpretation Is the statutory law taking of a person's property arbitrary, too broad and discriminatory under Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161 (2002) and v…
20-7773 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an 1. intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Dist…
20-7756 Brandon Lamar Tademy v. Colorado Colorado 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence sanctions spoliation Whether the district court erroneously denied Mr. Tademy's motion to dismiss or other appropriate sanctions for destruction of evidence, in violation …
20-1422 76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing 1. Should the Supreme Court adopt, as a national standar d, Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports (U.S.) Inc., 631 F.3d 939, 944 (9th Cir. 2011), to balance the n…
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 …
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence, as the Second, Sixth, and D.C. Circuits have…
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity 1. May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions, against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress sta…
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…
20-6795 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2021-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process eviction ex-parte-eviction judicial-discretion property-rights sanctions Does the "Compel Obedience Clause " in Civil Code of Procedure Section 128 allow ex parte eviction on the court 's own motion? Would that order comply…
20-773 Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process Whether—in line with holdings from the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits—a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be gr…
20-6491 In Re Mario Allan Montano 2020-12-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process fee-waiver filing-injunction judicial-sanctions jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits michigan-supreme-court sanctions The Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the Petitioner's motions to waive fees in multiple cases before the Court. Based on this failure, the Mic…
20-749 Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. Texas 2020-12-01 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply (1) the proper standard of review and (2) perform the correct factual and le…
20-6429 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud chapter-7-proceeding embezzlement estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraud injunction sanctions secured-creditor trustee-misconduct Petitioner is a secured estate claimant in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Donald Grodsky. Pursuant to a Promissory Note and Security Agreement executed b…
20-699 Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal Whether, as the Ninth Circuit has held, a plaintiff has an "absolute right" to voluntary dismissal under FRCP, Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), if no answer or mo…
20-694 Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., et al. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, et al. Wisconsin 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection federal-law judicial-review notice procedural-due-process property property-rights religious-exercise sanctions sua-sponte sua-sponte-analysis 1) Did the Wisconsin Court of Appeals Deprive and Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court's Refusal to Accept the Case for Review Permit the Deprivation of Pe…
20-6235 Mario Montano v. Court of Appeals of Michigan Michigan 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts court-sanctions due-process indigent-litigants indigent-rights judicial-abuse judicial-authority legal-merit procedural-fairness sanctions 1. Did the Michigan Supreme Court abuse its authority by sanctioning the indigent Petitioner $1000 payable to the Clerk of the Court that it knew he …
20-565 George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Di…
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2) claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions U.S. court of appeals for the Federal Circuit has entered a decision in this case in conflict with the decision of U.S. Court of appeals for the Feder…
20-483 Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions Did The United States District Court District of Nevada (hereinafter "NV Court ") err in its Report and Recommendation Order For Case Terminating Sanc…
20-475 Stanley V. Campbell v. Eagle Force Holdings, LLC, et al. Delaware 2020-10-13 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-procedure personal-jurisdiction sanctions 1. Can a finding of civil contempt and the imposition of a sanction be sustained consistent with the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the C…
20-5989 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-10-09 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights court-procedure due-process evidentiary-challenges evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation pro-se sanctions Petitionee denied her due peocess WAS RioHts, Decause she is A PRo liticant? se fees on Petitionee, when Peritioner did seot bet AN oPPDR tUNiT4 TO Re…
20-5922 Julia Hook v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual …
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts defense cause prejudice } due to inadequate nofice? If so, is it bad favth -for a conscious prosecutor to seeK this outcome? Does a Federal Court's,…
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…
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah 2020-06-29 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner Autumn Stavely's and her counsel's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when it sanctioned both …
19-1287 In Re Robert Sarhan, et ux. 2020-05-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition rooker-feldman-doctrine sanctions standing state-court-judgment writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of mandamus be issued to the Eleventh Circuit, requiring it (A) to disregard matters dehors the record, (B) to rule without regard to ma…
19-1236 Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens South Dakota 2020-04-20 Denied Response Waived terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions 1. What constitutes "Due Process of Law"? Can binding orders be implemented, terminating visitation without any consideration of evidence or a hearing…
19-8215 Victor Rivera-Munoz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing manager-enhancement sanctions sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines subordinate-authority subordinates supervisor-enhancement supervisor-role 1. In the a bsence of a definiti on of the terms, can a defendant receive a mana ger, or sup ervisor enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1. 1 when t he evi…
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation I. Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation gatekeeper standard? Does the gatekeeper visited?" by this Supreme Court, because different …
19-8142 Robert Sarhan, et ux. v. H & H Investors, Inc. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-review denial-of-hearing due-process final-judgment indispensable-party judicial-procedure mortgage-foreclosure sanctions service-of-process void-judgment Whether Anabella Soury, as 50% interest Mortgage Holder in this Mortgage Foreclosure Case, where the judgment is based on a Residential Home Loan, whe…
19-1188 Samaca, LLC v. Cellairis Franchise, Inc., et al. Georgia 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act georgia litigation preemption sanctions standing state-law Is Georgia's remedy for abusive litigation under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-1016 Jeffrey Kirsch v. Redwood Recovery Services, LLC, et al. Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied business-activities business-contacts civil-procedure deposition-sanction discovery due-process evidence evidence-preclusion nationwide-contacts personal-jurisdiction sanctions 1. Did the District Court violate the Due Process Clause by barring Defendant-Petitioner from presenting any evidence in his defense at trial, a sanct…
19-7374 In Re John Wallace 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute Congress Enacted The 28$ 1'U.S.£ 1915$g) Three Strikes StafemfeeoOf 1996 To Prevent Prisoner's From Filing FRIVOLOUS,MALICOUS,or VEXATIOUS Lawsuits. …
19-7050 In Re Charlene Rosa 2019-12-23 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sanctions statutory-interpretation witness-testimony Wter the Foh ct con pel bue i 1. discretion in sanction the petitioner Whether the Founth OcH Erceed it Authonty in sancion The petitioner. A Disco…
19-6944 Bahman Khodayari v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights damages discovery due-process nominal-damages rule-26 rule-26(a)(1)(A)(ii) rule-37 rule-37(c)(1) rule-41 rule-41(b) sanctions section-1983 A. Does the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's dismissal of Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 41(b) due to R…
19-6903 Alvin R. Barney, II v. Escambia County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure failure-to-prosecute final-judgment judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal premature-appeal sanction sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction FIRST QUESTION This first question is whether the Eleventh Circuit had the authority or subject matter jurisdiction to dismiss a premature notice of …
19-651 John P. DeRose v. Village of Orland Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-requirements rule-11 safe-harbor safe-harbor-provision sanctions service-of-motion May a party satisfy the safe-harbor provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 by informal communications, the rule applied by Seventh Circuit, o…
19-6565 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-rights due-process estoppel exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review sanctions work-product work-product-protection 1. U.S. Cont. Agni 5, 10 (recordkeeping), 14 §1; Fed. R. Evid. 501, 502; 18 U.S.C. 1001(a): a. Under the "Fairness," "Extrajudicial Partial Disclosure…
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention How can a state court criminal defendant enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held in …
19-6248 In Re Warren Parks 2019-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure sanction-hearing sanctions standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Sanction procedural Prerequisite of F.R.C.P. Federal Rules Civil Procedure, the order of July 05" 2017, NO. 17-2342, William J. Bauer, Richard A. P…
19-6227 In Re Steven Talbert Williams 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contempt-of-court dismissal due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis sanctions standing 1. 28 USC 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) and 18 U.S.C. §402 (dismissal for "frivolous[ness]," U.S. Const. Am. 6, 10): a. Whether the "ORDER" (Appendix A, dated Marc…
19-476 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud housing-dispute judicial-discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant retaliation sanctions standing state-officer-misconduct Can State officers in the trial court and appellate court act directly in conflict with well-established precedent set by the Supreme Court which reco…
19-6141 Donnie Ray Jose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process judicial-discretion plea-negotiations prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions trial-strategy When a federal prosecutor concedes a serious discovery violation shortly before trial, should the district court's response take into account, among o…
19-317 Susan R. Gokool v. Oklahoma City University Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure legal-notice notice opportunity-to-be-heard sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment 1. Due Process is a course of legal proceeding for the enforcement and protection of private rights guaranteed by the Constitution that requires a not…
19-270 Patricia Rodriguez v. LPP Mortgage Ltd., LP Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure client-advocacy credible-arguments due-process legal-ethics rule-11 sanctions zealous-representation Whether rule 11 sanctions against attorney Patricia Rodriguez and her law firm should be reversed, as it conflicted with her duty to represent her cli…
19-5662 Carter Stephens v. Marcelo Britto Gomez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process henderson-factors judicial-intervention legal-ethics legal-malpractice sanctions standing state-bar state-bar-regulation 1. The plaintiff Carter Stephens was not informed by the State Bar of the abhorrent record of the neglectful attorney he subsequently retained. This a…
19-207 David Grober, et al. v. Mako Products, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery due-process expense-sanctions federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion litigation-compliance reasoned-decision rule-37 sanctions Whether the mandatory expense sanctions of FRCP Rule 37, can be circumvented by a court ignoring, or reducing them, including to zero, absent the l…
19-5405 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights dismissal-order due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus pro-se-litigation sanctions sovereign-immunity standing Question not identified.
19-5364 In Re Carl A. Courtright, III 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions 1) Absent statutory authority nor provision in the Federal Rules, Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals clearly abuse its discretion when it ORDE…
19-5249 George E. Kersey v. Herb Chambers 1186, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP appeal appeals civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals district-court due-process filing-fee frivolous in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation sanctions screening standing 1. Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's certification that the appeal was not taken in good faith 2. Whether the 28 U.…
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct 1) Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Cir…
18A1313 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Presumed Complete collateral-estoppel deficiency sanctions statute-of-limitations tax-court tax-return Question not identified.
18-9421 In Re Ronald D. Veteto 2019-05-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-penalty civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-misconduct due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-petition notice-pleading prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights sanctions Question not identified.
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning Before this Honorable Court is the question of when it is appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, in light…
18-9249 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-rules answering-brief appellate-procedure brief-filing civil-procedure deadlines judicial-sanctions motion-for-sanctions notification pro-se-litigation procedural-deadlines sanctions Litigating the Preliminary Injunction Appeal pursuant to the 9th Circuit's Rule 3-3(b), shall the Defendant-Appellee file an Answering Brief "within 2…
18-1409 Saied Emami v. Jim Bridenstine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 discovery discrimination due-process employment-discrimination expert-witness procedural-due-process retaliation sanctions scheduling-order title-vii Whether the Respondent's counsel that failed to comply with the District Court Scheduling Order necessarily violate procedural due process rights of t…
18-1406 Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. Arizona 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing …
18-1353 Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations 1. Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974), should continue until a distric…
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment As pointed out by District Judge J. Owen Forrester in Sklar v. Clough, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49248 (N.D. Ga. July 6, 2007), "a district court may cons…
18-8602 Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing Perjury in search warrant applications assail the Fourth Amendment at its core. Should Franks v. Delaware be revisited to allow for sanction even if t…
18-8580 Sidney Marts, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sanctions standing Whether Florida Supreme Court Judgments Conflicts with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Post-trial Exculpatory Findings due Process violation by …
18-1091 Afoluso Adesanya, et vir v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Third Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-review civil-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process employment-discrimination ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-conduct judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation sanctions Whether the 3rd Circuit Appeals Court erred in upholding the decision of Federal District Court to dismiss Petitioner One employment discrimination La…
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…
18-7868 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two, Inc., dba Marsh's Sunfresh Market, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery-order dismissal due-process judicial-discretion lesser-sanctions prejudice procedural-fairness sanctions Whether the district court is required to provide the sanctioned party with adequate due process before dismissing the lawsuit? Whether the imposed s…
18-7724 Elloyd Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law court-procedure due-process legal-challenge pauper pauper-petition pauper-status rule-10.6 sanctions standing statutory-provisions supervisory-power untimely-pay-sanction DO THE USCA DENIAL OF REHEARING EN BANC CONSTITUTE A GO DAY FOR FILING A CERTIORARI IN THIS CASE? DO THE UNTIMELY PAY SANCTIONS BY A INDIGENT PAUPER …
18-982 In Re Beverly L. Hennager, et al. 2019-01-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection limited-partnership mandamus non-discretionary-action pre-filing-injunction property property-rights sanctions standing writ-of-appeal Whether the enforcement of an appellant mandate affirming the plain, unambiguous language of a previous order compelling specific non-discretionary ac…
18-7398 Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt New Mexico 2019-01-14 Denied IFP amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights In this case- Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summery judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues…
18-867 Matthew E. Jackson, Jr., et al. v. Frances Edith Jackson Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-sanctions criminal-sanctions due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection evidentiary-standards jurisdictional-limitations precedent procedural-protections sanctions supreme-court Whether the failure of a court to comply with the jurisdictional limitations, procedural and due process protections, evidentiary standards, the prece…
18-860 Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing 1. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed because the Tennessee Supreme Court arbitrarily punished Petitioner/lawyer as …
18-771 Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions 1. Whether review is warranted because the Court of Appeals affirmed a sanction of $61,605.25 in attorney's fees against a pro se Plaintiff for an all…
18-765 James H. Brady v. New York, et al. New York 2018-12-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings As the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan District Attorney were not acting as advocates for the people when they permitted Petitioner's co…
18-655 Craig J. Spitzer v. Trisha A. Aljoe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion attorney-misconduct barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery-sanctions-public-entity- discovery discovery-sanctions discretionary-review frcp-26 public-entity sanctions section-1983 state-court-receiver Does a district court have a duty under FRCP 26(g)(3) to sanction public entities and their attorneys for improper withholding of documents requested …
18-6442 Phillip T. Merritt v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discovery due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ sanctions standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Question not identified.
18-479 Marc Schenkel v. Xyngular Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response Waived case-management civil-procedure civil-rights district-court district-court-authority due-process free-speech inherent-authority judicial-discretion pre-litigation-conduct prelitigation-conduct sanctions standing Whether a district court's inherent authority to manage the disposition of cases, including by imposing sanctions on a party, does not extend to condu…
18-383 Jesse J. Davis, Jr., et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association Connecticut 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process Due-process-of-law,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amen equal-protection Equal-protection-of-the-laws,fourteenth-amendment Excessive-fines,foreclosure free-speech impartial-court petition-clause Right-to-impartial-court,sixth-amendment,seventh-a right-to-petition Right-to-petition-government,first-amendment right-to-public-trial Right-to-public-trial,right-to-information,sixth-a sanctions All of the following Constitutional Rights violations were raised to the Connecticut Supreme Court on the Motion for Certification to Appeal dated 01-…
18-326 Estate of Bernice Goldberg by Executor Gary Goldberg v. Philip Nimoityn, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perjury procedural-due-process sanctions trial-evidence 1. In National Hockey League v Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc., 427 U.S. 639 (1976), this Court ruled that the failure to comply with Rule 26 and 37 of…
18-5794 Ronnie Keith Davis v. Benjamin Maddie Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-procedure civil-rights-proceeding evidentiary-hearing first-national-bank-v-lustig fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court hazel-atlas-glass inherent-power miscarriage-of-justice rozier-v-ford-motor rule-60(b)(3) rule-60b3 sanctions summary-judgment Whether a Motion to vacate the judgment pursuant to Rule 60(b)(3) timely filed within the one-year period is governed by the grave miscarriage of just…
18-5729 Juan Diaz, Jr. v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process sanctions standing subpoenas Question not identified.
18-233 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1927 act-of-state-doctrine congressional-intent due-process extraterritorial-application federal-sanctions inherent-powers rule-44.1 sanctions sovereign-immunity Did congress intend the court's inherent powers and U.S. 28 U.S.C. § 1927 to apply extraterritorially allowing Rule 44.1 analysis to be applied to ove…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order 1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c…
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance (1) Whether, as the Sixth Circuit held, Rule 45(d)(2)(B)(ii) entitles a non-party to recover all "significant fees" it incurs (including attorney fees…
18-5463 Michael Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure due-process filing-of-record notice opportunity-to-be-heard response right-to-be-heard sanction sanctions DUE prOceSS petitrone Reqvires that a4t Sanetroned be notice where PRovided be Rights to heard entened and ond a the COURt when the sinctioned wus ent…
18-140 In Re Cliven Bundy 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's ("Mr. Klayman") admission pro hac vice in the U.S. District…
18-79 Tiberiu Klein, et al. v. Daniel O'Brien, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process fraud incompetence judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-standards notice opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the Seventh Circuit violates its own Standards and Rules and violate petitioners' due process rights in falsely accusing an attorney of pretens…