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25-6863 Michael Jaffe v. Kris Doe District of Columbia 2026-02-20 Pending IFP judicial-immunity jury-trial quasi-contract seizure-without-warrant seventh-amendment unjust-enrichment Was Michael Jaffe unconstitutionally denied a jury trial as per Seventh Amendment in case 1:24-cv-01320-UNA in the U.S. District Court for the Distric…
25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury 1. "Whether" our Supreme Court will allow Plaintiff House their 7th Amendment rights of trial by jury shall be preserved by our U.S. Constitution per …
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud 1. Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the ri…
25-6394 Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda New Jersey 2025-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment 1. Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations. 2. Whether judicial sanctions imposed as penalties require due pr…
25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Granted Amici (3) article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
25A545 Harvey Birdman, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment Question not identified.
25A544 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment Question not identified.
25-445 E&I Global Energy Services, Inc., et al. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-assignment expert-testimony federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment 1. Whether the district court violated the Seventh Amendment and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 39(b) by denying petitioners' timely motion for a jur…
25-406 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-06 Granted administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act provisions that govern the FCC's assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Ame…
25-343 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Pending circuit-precedent constitutional-rights jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment waiver This Court has held that equitable restitution can be awarded without a jury but is capped at "a defendant's net profits," Liu v. SEC, 591 U.S. 71, 87…
25-341 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived damages-evaluation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-award seventh-amendment Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Seventh Amendment by overturning the jury's damages award based on its own evaluation of the sufficiency of t…
25-220 John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any …
25A179 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit harmless-error patent-law seventh-amendment Question not identified.
25-5291 Consuelo Saldana, et al. v. William Campana California 2025-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-jury-trial constitutional-rights indigent-litigants seventh-amendment waiver-inference 1. May California arbitrarily deny a civil jury trial to indigent litigants in violation of the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and article…
25-98 Peter Gumm v. AK Steel Corporation Sixth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights mcdonnell-douglas seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-seven 1. Whether a federal district court errs in granting summary judgment based upon the improper application of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S…
25-102 Jayne Swinford v. Officer Joshua Santos, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process jury-trial procedural-rules qualified-immunity seventh-amendment 1. Seventh Amendment and Due Process: Whether the lower courts violated the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial and the Fifth Amendment's D…
25A95 Larry Jordan v. Stephen Bates, Sr. Third Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied civil-case dismissal factual-matters jury-trial right-to-trial seventh-amendment Question not identified.
25A90 Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied agency-action appellate-exhaustion civil-rights color-of-law jury-trial seventh-amendment Question not identified.
25-70 William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act compensatory-damages jury-trial punitive-damages retaliation seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retali…
25-5100 David Joseph Peterson v. Black Body Corporation, dba Antec, Incorporated, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right credibility-determination due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether the lower court erred in making credibility determinations in allowing Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment thereby denying Petitioner …
25A46 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights consumer-lending equitable-remedy jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment This is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. The document does not contain…
25-37 Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor 1. Whether the Indiana courts below violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring her from pursuing a common law cause of a…
25-18 Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement Whether, as this Court held in Dairy Queen, the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in trademark-infringement actions seeking monetary relief i…
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-1038 Sarsvatkumar Patel v. Long Island University Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived discrimination due-process fmla retaliation seventh-amendment title-vii In a Title VII and FMLA discrimination and retaliation case, does denying a jury trial to a plaintiff who knowingly and voluntarily chose trial over s…
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…
24-6710 Robert Klein v. Brookhaven Health Care Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigant seventh-amendment 1. Whether the guarantee that the Constitution of the United States under the Seventh Amendment still entitles a U.S. citizen his Right to a jury tria…
24-857 Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart Tenth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-rights excessive-force jury-trial section-1983 seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a trial by jury extends to issues of fact related to the exhaustion of administrative remedies. This quest…
24-829 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2025-02-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation first-amendment public-figure seventh-amendment In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,1 this Court "overturn[ed] 200 years of libel law" to constitutionalize an actual-malice standard for public-officia…
24-6468 Leonard W. Houston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied IFP camp-lejeune-justice-act constitutional-rights federal-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Plaintiff, LEOARD W. HOUSTON, pro-se pursuing his cause of action against the Defendant, United States of America, has a right to a tri…
24A747 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment Question not identified.
24-776 Paul S. Astrup v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment petition-clause seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Pursuant to SCOTUS Rule 13.3, did the lower court appropriately entertain an untimely petition for rehearing thus fixing the time for Astrup to fil…
24-6268 Ramon Moreno-Cuevas v. Town Sports International, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy-court due-process jury-trial non-core-proceeding seventh-amendment Does a litigant in a non-core bankruptcy case, who does not consent to a non-Art-III court trial and who asks, based on his Seventh Amendment rights, …
24-723 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review I. Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and, as a result, improperl…
24-6205 Nelson Bruce v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust C, et al. South Carolina 2024-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-law rooker-feldman-doctrine seventh-amendment 1. Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by limiting its review to the…
24A541 Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased v. The Boeing Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete admiralty-jurisdiction death-on-high-seas-act federal-jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-law seventh-amendment Is federal admiralty jurisdiction under the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA), 46 U.S.C. §§ 30301-08, concurrent, or exclusive?
24-589 Allco Renewable Energy Limited, et al. v. Agency of Natural Resources, et al. Vermont 2024-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-enforcement civil-penalties public-utility-commission renewable-energy seventh-amendment site-preparation Whether statutory provisions that empower the Vermont Public Utility Commission (PUC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceeding…
24-558 Jeremy Ray Morris, et ux. v. West Hayden Estates First Addition Homeowners Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied fair-housing-act hostile-environment jury-trial religious-discrimination rule-50b seventh-amendment We are somewhat hesitant to bring up the fact that some of our residents are non-Christians (avowed atheists) or people of another faith and we don't …
24-5945 Jodi Rouviere v. Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, dba Stryker Orthopaedics, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-rules-of-evidence jury-consideration material-fact reasonable-diligence seventh-amendment summary-judgment ISSUE I: WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT EFFECTIVELY REMOVED THE FACTUAL INQUIRY INTO PETITIONER "EXERCISE OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE " UNDER NEW YORK CLS CPLR…
24-5908 Tanya Spurbeck v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chevron-deference due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations 1. Spurbeck 's right to sue 's tolling of statute of limitations applied under both overruled Chevron and new precedent dated June 28, 2024 Loper Ligh…
24-5903 Asem Farooq v. Donna Bolt, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights corporate-misconduct due-process employment-discrimination military-reservist seventh-amendment 1. Does the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial in civil cases apply to employment discrimination claims, and if so, why was it not applied in t…
24-461 Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure due-process local-rule-36 patent-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment This case represents a dangerous trend in patent cases whereby district courts grant summary judgment while ignoring factual disputes and/or weighing …
24-5704 Lori M. Moody v. Edward W. Horan Florida 2024-10-04 Denied IFP absolute-privilege defamation-per-se due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment Does the right to a jury trial secured by the Seventh Amendment extend to a private citizen in a state court in an action for defamation per se? Does…
24-358 Faresha Sims v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment "Like the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are as binding as any statute duly enacted by Congress, and federa…
24-296 Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived academic-hearing disciplinary-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Was Bhattacharya deprived of his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial because the district court and Fourth Circuit Majority resolved disputed iss…
24A208 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment Question not identified.
24A207 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment Question not identified.
24-5167 John Stancu v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas 2024-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-power texas 1. Did the State of Texas Courts involved in this case wrongly denied Petitioner Stancu's Seventh Amendment right to the United States Constitution by…
23-1328 Yuval Golan v. Daily News, L.P., et al. New York 2024-06-20 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp constitutional-rights defamation first-amendment jury-trial public-figure public-figures seventh-amendment 1. Is the New York anti-SLAPP statute unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment's distinction between private figures and public figures,…
23-7178 Shawn Titus v. Donald L. Schense Nebraska 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment appellate-process due-process equal-access expert-affidavit legal-malpractice seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury 1. COULD THE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVE PETITIONER OF HIS 7TH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT BASED SOLELY UPON THE DEFENDANT-EXPERT…
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure 1. Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Te…
23-7027 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-procedure seventh-amendment standing 1. Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a j…
23-6805 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Cambridge Health Commission Massachusetts 2024-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP active-concealment civil-procedure constitutional-rights fidelity-vs-united-states grounds-of-defense seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury In Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. United States, 187 U.S. 315 (1902) the Court explained that granting summary judgment would not violate the right to tria…
23-858 Merrilee Stewart v. Sentinel Insurance Company Ltd., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-fraud due-process fraud judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment standing The fact is, a large omnipotent international corporation was able to obtain a pretrial dismissal and infringe upon the due process rights of an indiv…
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
23-6337 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2284 arbitration-agreement civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-composition federal-arbitration-act federal-law-challenge ninth-amendment seventh-amendment 1. What does 28 U.S. Code § 2284 mandate regarding the composition of a district court when an action challenges the constitutionality of a federal la…
23-445 Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment As the first and only sanction ever ordered — or even considered — by the District Court below, that court struck Petitioner Christy Williams' liabili…
23-5760 Mattie T. Lomax v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment Plaintiff Mattie Lomax brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that the Defendants violated her constitutional rights during a …
23-5731 Rebekah Panzlau v. Adams County Housing Authority, dba Maiker Housing Partners Colorado 2023-10-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-trial relocation-act seventh-amendment uniform-relocation-act Did Ms. Panzlau receive a fair and unbiased trial free from even the appearance of Impropriety in her case? Was Ms. Panzlau's 7th amendment protectio…
23-5687 Isaac Brunson v. DeKalb County Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1) Will the Supreme Court continue to allow federal district and appellate courts to pervert the original intention of the summary judgement device an…
23-5361 Andrew Slabon v. Angelo R. Sanchez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial procedural-rules seventh-amendment standing state-action trial-by-jury Whether the original intent of die founders of the United States Constitution allowed for the appli cation of local rules, which were carefully crafte…
22-1241 Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Amici (2) broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 empowers Respondent Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to seek, and district courts to impose, putatively …
22-1217 Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii I. Whether the Petitioner has a claim pursuant to Title VII 42 U.S.C. § 2000e -2(a)(1) when he was terminated on the basis of his sexual orientation .…
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…
22-7133 Ryan Stancu v. Southern Methodist University Texas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery discovery-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment 1. Did the lower courts and the Supreme Court of Texas usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's rig…
22-7060 Zachary James McAlexander v. D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection corporate-liability due-process false-advertising first-amendment seventh-amendment standing 1. Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendmen…
22-859 Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-09 Judgment Issued Amici (36)Relisted (2) administrative-enforcement administrative-law article-ii civil-penalties civil-rights due-process enforcement nondelegation-doctrine sec-proceedings securities seventh-amendment 1. Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement procee…
22-6963 Zachary James McAlexander v. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-liability due-process first-amendment medical-harm seventh-amendment standing 1. Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendme…
22-6901 Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment 1. Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where it induced jurors with an incorrect legal definition of "knowingly", in such a way that rel…
22-6776 J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-14 Denied IFP amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment I. Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other subst…
22-719 Jessica Mackey v. American Multi-Cinema, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine premises-liability risk-utility-test seventh-amendment state-law summary-judgment Except in very rare instances such as the complete lack of proof, black letter Louisiana tort law holds that determination of breach of duty is a ques…
22-6244 LeeAnn Morgan v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fraud-concealment jury-trial medical-battery private-party seventh-amendment state-funded-medical-institution writ-of-error-coram-nobis 1. Does the 7th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provide that a Jury Trial be held in civil private matters between a private party and a State-fun…
22-5578 Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank Ninth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review Petitioner "Pro Se" requests a Writ of Certiorari for compelling reasons. "The United States Department of Justice reestablished the Office for Acces…
22-215 Heslin Gallagher v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial quasi-governmental-immunity securities-exchange-commission self-regulatory-organization seventh-amendment standing 1. Whether clarification is needed to resolve the conflicts among the various circuits when a Self-Regulatory Organization registered with the Securit…
21-1586 Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment I. Did the Fifth Circuit, in accepting the District Court's findings of fact, probable cause of the fall and legal authority, violate the basic princi…
21-8071 Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. California 2022-06-07 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. …
21-7901 Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts - tho…
21-1433 Faye Boatright v. U.S. Bancorp, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review deemed-admitted discrimination due-process retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether Diebold and the Seventh Amendment prohibit a circuit court reviewing a grant of summary judgment from sanctioning a non-movant under a loca…
21-7770 Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel Second Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury 1. Weather the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with r…
21-1385 Carolyn D. Robinson v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas prima-facie-case section-1981 seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Should the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973) burden shifting test remain a part of the summary judgment analysis in employment …
21-1230 Dakota Territory Tours, ACC v. Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority, Inc. Arizona 2022-03-10 Denied civil-actions civil-rights constitutional-law due-process incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment state-courts Does the Seventh Amendment apply to state governments and protect the right to a jury trial in civil forcible-entry-and-detainer actions in state cour…
21-1107 FTS USA, LLC, et al. v. Edward Monroe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived class-certification collective-action damages due-process fair-labor-standards-act representative-sample representative-testimony seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Due Process Clause permit a collective action to be certified and tried to verdict based upon testimon…
21-6866 Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court Plaintiff was denied access to a jury trial and court discovery violating his seventh amendment rights through the courts inappropriate application of…
21-662 Michael Bright-Asante v. Saks & Company, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied civil-rights due-process human-rights-law jury-trial section-1981 seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment 1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in its de novo review, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, apply th…
21-438 Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction of a term the district…
21-399 Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the "unnecessary and wanton" infliction of pain? And, does the Constitution …
21-158 Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 (wherein a minority of circuit courts issue judgmen…
21-110 GMAG, LLC, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for the Stanford International Bank Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process factual-dispute jury-trial jury-verdict legal-ruling ponzi-scheme seventh-amendment transferee-liability Whether the Seventh Amendment and due process permit a court of appeals to reverse a jury verdict based on the court's own independent examination of …
21-5189 Gary Hatter v. Gloria Williams, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process housing-authority hud jury-trial pro-se procedural-due-process seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Did granting a Summary Judgment violate my Seventh Amendment rights to a trial by jury as this was my request and my constitutional right as a US C…
21-5167 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing 1. Whether or not the lower court 's denial of the Petitioner 's guaranteed rights under provision as outlined in the Bill of Rights departed so far f…
20-7874 Ted A. McCracken v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment causation-evidence civil-rights expert-testimony jury-trial pro-se-plaintiff pulmonologist-analysis seventh-amendment summary-judgment tobacco-litigation WAS IT NOT A DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S 7th AMENDMENT RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL FOR THE DISTRICT COURT TO GRANT RESPONDENT(S) SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON THE ISSUE OF L…
20-1355 David M. Johnson v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity jury-trial mandamus-writ seventh-amendment standing 1. Whether a plaintiff is guaranteed the right to a jury trial by the 7th Amendment that leaves no discretion in the lower courts to deny a jury trial…
20-7361 Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci…
20-1216 Faysal Khalaf v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia jury-findings seventh-amendment sixth-amendment 1. Whether the sufficiency-of-the-evidence standard under the Sixth Amendment, as established by the Court in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979)…
20-7289 Bobby Campbell, Jr. v. Bottling Group, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pretext seventh-amendment similarly-situated summary-judgment title-vii 1. Does the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit courts from measuring degrees of similarity to grant summary judgment on the fact…
20-1177 National Medical Imaging, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bad-faith bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-petition compensatory-damages involuntary-bankruptcy jury-trial punitive-damages seventh-amendment Section 303 of the Bankruptcy Code governs involuntary bankruptcy cases. In an involuntary bankruptcy case it is the creditors, not the debtors, who s…
20-1129 Scott Phillip Flynn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea irs jury-trial klein-conspiracy restitution seventh-amendment sixth-amendment L. Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution, as discussed in McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. 459 (1969) and more recent de…
20-6842 Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent A. Whether the majorit y opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under th…
20-6735 Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez Florida 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing THE SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES PROTECTS THE RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL, DENIED BY THE TRIAL COURT'S ENTRY OF THE JULY 24, 201…
20-844 Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. Connecticut 2020-12-23 Denied 7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Con stitution require a jury trial in a civil eviction case, which is based on equity to an elderly petitio…
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction For The questions is a matter of jurisdiction undisputed mix law and mix fact "state v. federal. " The legal right to trial by jury as declared in U.S…
20-624 Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing Is it a question of law, for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process, or vio…
20-596 Leroy E. Scott v. City of St. Petersburg, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection home-rule-powers municipal-abatement racial-discrimination seventh-amendment special-assessment-liens standing summary-judgment Is the PER CURIAM Affirm opinion, as applied in this case, a pretext for discrimination? Pursuant to Article VIII, Section 2, Florida Constitution, a…
20-582 Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law I. Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his l…
20-470 Gladys Mendoza v. Inspira Health Network, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process free-speech seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Does not the Decision in this case require a reaffirmation and clarification of Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc, 477 U.S. 242, 255 and its progeny wher…
20-5669 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-restitution equity-practice fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-verdict seventh-amendment sixth-amendment 1. Whether Apprendi applies to a mandatory criminal restitution order, and whether the Seventh Amendment requires a restitution order to comply with t…
20-260 Personal Audio, LLC v. CBS Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied appointments-clause collateral-estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law reexamination-clause seventh-amendment waiver 1. Must the collateral estoppel effect of an inter partes review be raised and litigated in the appeal of the inter partes review, rather than in the …
20-5531 Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face or as applied in violation o…
20-206 Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. California 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is the time ripe for the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial to be incorporated by the Fourteen Amendment to the states? Should government …
20-6 William Burke v. Progressive Gulf Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial insurance insurance-claim legal-manipulation maritime-jurisdiction maritime-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment This case involves a simple insurance claim to Progressive Gulf Insurance made by William Burke when his boat sank in January 2018. Progressive manipu…
19-1269 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Amici (5) antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment rig…
19-1228 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment 1. Whether under Rule 36 of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and…
19-8289 Jose Yeyille v. Cecilia M. Altonaga, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-review due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis jury-trial seventh-amendment standing 1. Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement…
19-8156 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied IFP 7th-amendment age-discrimination civil-rights discovery-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial seventh-amendment standing 1. Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a j…
19-1120 Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment I. Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur …
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does Fourth (VI) Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein? Does the Fifth Amendment (V) can't allowed accuser to defend himself…
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity 1) Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and disregarded this Court's precedents when it denied Petitioner's request to amend significantly incorrect recor…
19-7202 Terence C. Powell v. Lab Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment chain-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-trial due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-right jury-trial privileges-and-immunities seventh-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly affirmed the District Court's granting the defendant's Motions to Dismiss violates the protections of the Seven…
19-7142 General P. Haymon v. Michael Johnson California 2020-01-06 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights dred-scott due-process equal-protection jury-trial race racial-discrimination seventh-amendment standing Given the above-mentioned 19th century U.S. Supreme Court's ruling and opinion in the Dred Scott case, the question presented to Chief Justice John Ro…
19-662 Thomas Sander v. City of Dickinson, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process evidence seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury 1. Whether a civil litigant's right to trial by jury under the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is violated when a United St…
19-625 Rita Guerrero, Individually and as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Celso N. Guerrero v. BNSF Railway Company Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived federal-employers-liability-act interstate-commerce interstate-rail-service jury-trial negligence scope-of-employment seventh-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether the decision by the Seventh Circuit panel conflicts with provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and the uniform precedents of …
19-6514 Alan M. Leschyshyn v. Dineshkumar Patel, et al. Arizona 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review legal-theory plausible-ground seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations summary-judgment trial-by-jury 1. With respect to the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights, does the judge(s) have to be convinced about legal theory which remains viable under the…
19-589 Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act.
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule I) Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated when the trial court weighed evidence and drew inferences against Petitioner in set…
19-5896 Mitchell Dinnerstein v. Burlington County College Third Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial The question's I am presenting to the court are, If the application of rule 56(d) is unreasonably used to quickly end a proceedings and denies a petit…
19-315 Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws when …
19-5764 Ola D. Dickens v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure jurisdiction seventh-amendment standing surveillance 1. ) Whether circuit court made a mistake on order filed 12/04/2017, finding no basis in documents or records filed 11/07/2017, to conclude that any …
19-5541 Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii 1. Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial? 2. Does general corporate know…
19-178 Jagdish C. Laul v. Los Alamos National Laboratories Tenth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination inference-weighing jury-competency jury-trial-right mcdonnell-douglas motive motive-determination seventh-amendment summary-judgment Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony depriv…
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review The question presented is whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, "unrebutted,…
19-97 Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment This Court has repeatedly instructed that the use of collateral estoppel is limited to situations where "the issues in the two cases are … identical,"…
19-5193 Jonathan R. Burrs v. United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-dismiss procedural-obstruction seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Does a District Court Judge engage in a Fraud Upon The Court by participating in the theft of a Petitioner's Opposition to a Respondent's Motion To Di…
19-5174 William C. Lewis, Sr., et al. v. Estate of Robert A. Lewis, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment asset-transfer civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings 1. Whether the decision affirming the denial of a trial by jury on Petitioners' claims violated their 7th Amendment to the US Constitution. 2. Whethe…
19-30 Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Is prior salary a factor other than sex? If so: Whether the Equal Pay Act intends prior salary, as a "catchall exception," to be excluded from bona f…
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights (including rights guaranteed by: U.S. Constitution's …
18-1508 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz 1. Where the district court properly instructed the jury to give a claim limitation its "plain and ordinary meaning as viewed from the perspective of …
18-9518 Blayne D. Williams, Sr. v. City of Austin, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment federal-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure municipal-employer municipal-government property-interest rule-12b6 seventh-amendment state-law Whether the City of Austin, as a municipal government employer violated the Appellant's federal and state law rights secured by the United States Cons…
18-1355 Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App…
18-1295 Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am…
18A1005 Jiying Wei v. University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-03 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure judicial-notice pro-se-pleading res-judicata seventh-amendment Question not identified.
18-1229 In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment • Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for dama…
18-1153 Timothy J. Rizzo v. Applied Materials, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony scientific-evidence seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the courts below erroneously abused their discretion dismissing Rizzo's Experts (Dr. Wang, Dr. Miloslaysky, Dr. Hodgman) in conflict with the …
18-8128 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2019-02-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation I. Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (SCFPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face and as applied and is a…
18-7908 Twila Haynes v. Walmart, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment standing Federal rule 39. (in forma Pauperis) [FP. Is an [FP that is granted by District Court (Eastern District of Pa.) transferable to another district Court…
18-7853 John Patrick Fletcher v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 42-U.S.C-1983 7th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process prisoner-complaint pro-se section-1915 section-1983 section-242 seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the Seventh Amendment allows an action to be dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915— without a finding of factual error - six months after the issua…
18-7701 Christopher D. Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conspiracy courthouse-access discrimination due-process falsification first-amendment seventh-amendment structural-error transcript trial Is it a denial of fundamental due process, petitioner's First and Seventh Amendment rights, and a "structural error"—requiring inter alia a new trial—…
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) whereby impeding the timely filing of his pe…
18-686 Lazina King, et al. v. Caliber Home Loans, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Relisted (2) dodd-frank-act dual-tracking foreclosure-law jury-trial private-right-of-action real-estate-settlement-procedures-act regulation-x respa-regulation seventh-amendment statutory-damages Is the RE SPA Regulation X Section 6(1) which was promulgated by Dodd-Frank Act remedial in nature which provides a private right of action to an inju…
18-573 Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Amici (3) appellate-review character-of-regulatory-action city-of-monterey-v-del-monte-dunes economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations jury-trial jury-trial-7th-amendment penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings seventh-amendment standard-of-review takings-clause-5th-amendment This Court held in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York, 438 U.S. 104 (1978), that determining whether regulatory action constitutes a …
18-412 Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. Virginia 2018-10-02 Denied access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appal, without reaching the merits of the case, violates the Petitioner's fundament…
18-378 Merck & Co., Inc., et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure damages equitable-defense jury-verdict legal-relief patent separation-of-powers seventh-amendment unclean-hands Whether the equitable defense of unclean hands precludes legal relief in the form of damages.
18-246 Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1…
18-5741 George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying.…
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution. Whether as a result of t…
18-5315 Marsha Chambers v. Green Tree Servicing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit-court judicial-precedent material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Did the Lower Courts follow the precedence standards set by this US Supreme Court in Anderson V Liberty Lobby (106 S.Ct. 2505) since this was even one…