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25A810 Elizabeth Mirabelli, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application Amici (9) california-education free-exercise opt-out-policies parental-rights religious-liberty substantive-due-process Question not identified.
25-6457 Elijah Behringer v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-mandates jacobson-precedent jury-trial rational-basis-review sixth-amendment substantive-due-process (1) Whether this Court's decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) provides authority for automatic dismissal of lawsuits challenging …
25-6028 Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement …
25A431 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-19 fundamental-rights medical-treatment substantive-due-process vaccine-mandate Question not identified.
25-427 Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process 1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du…
24-1043 Edward Plummer, Jr. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, et al. California 2025-04-01 Denied court-notification judicial-system leave-to-amend litigant-rights pro-se substantive-due-process Does our judicial system deny pro se litigants substantive due process when the courts are remise in ensuring that such litigants are timely and prope…
24-846 Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment probable-cause rule-12b6 substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to adhere to the st…
24A693 Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. Seventh Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete deadline-extension petition-extension qualified-immunity substantive-due-process supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention 1. Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures, or the Fourteenth Amend…
24-5454 Jesse Alaniz Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal felony-classification fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process texas-robbery Whether the Court of Appeals and District Court erred in construing a 1987 Texas robbery conviction as a felony for purposes of Armed Career sentencin…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix 1. Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal …
24-5090 Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4248 attorney-general civil-commitment due-process fifth-amendment necessary-and-proper-clause procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248, consistent with both substantive and procedural due process, can be read to permit a civil commitment order to remain in eff…
23-1199 Joanne Moskovic v. City of New Buffalo, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process michigan-zoning-enabling-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings short-term-rental substantive-due-process zoning zoning-ordinance Whether the Appellate Court erred in finding that Petitioner's use of her home, located in a residential zoning district, as a rental for one month or…
23-956 Roy Bracken, et al. v. City of Ketchum, Idaho, et al. Idaho 2024-03-04 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-use-permit discretionary-process due-process procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process Whether All Rights To Due Process Required By Federal, State, And Municipal Law May Be Denied Because One Lacks Entitlement To A Government Benefit So…
23-6739 John Richard Brinson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable?
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process 1. Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient? 2. Is it an ob…
23-722 Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified immunity to prison officials in these cases by defining the relevant law at a high level of gene…
23-707 Yossi Govrin, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. California 2023-12-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling estoppel government-taking property-rights standing substantive-due-process takings Whether a party with close ties to the government should be allowed to proceed with litigating its claims based on equitable tolling and/or estoppel g…
23-6345 Jeffrey M. Spring, Sr. v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process sixth-amendment substantive-due-process 1: Is it a violation of substantive and procedural due process for the Ohio Courts to deny the defendant in this matter an evidentiary hearing and all…
23-6318 William Joseph Daniel v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP consenting-adults constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection glucksberg-test privileges-or-immunities substantive-due-process 1.) There are 330 million Americans and almost all of them either have or will choose who to pursue for potential marriage, children, and family, whic…
23-6215 D. E. v. Russell County Department of Human Resources Alabama 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP biological-parent child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence dependency-proceedings due-process ore-tenus-rule parental-rights substantive-due-process Whether the State violates the Due Process Clause when it assumes initial custody of a child from an involved biological parent utilizing dependency p…
23-5737 Roger Wilson v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights history-and-tradition obergefell-v-hodges originalist-interpretation same-sex-marriage substantive-due-process unenumerated-rights Since the United States Supreme Court's ruling on Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization that any rights that are not mentioned in the Constituti…
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (3) deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether, and under what circumstances, a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person consti…
23-5588 Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. Nevada 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule L(^V\e. VVe>r We dc>a ^Woceoi> of VVa. ^"oosrVeevxVV A^e^iw^e>v\! \fevvievr /)6\/a,la 5iaVa Iq,(jS 5V x,Vo V&o cxacova »s Vv Vj V-vqv^ci \ * <5V q^V^V…
23-212 Amos N. Jones v. Catholic University of America District of Columbia 2023-09-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process procedural-fairness stare-decisis substantive-due-process tortious-interference Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in its failure to apply its very own intervening and controlling authority as per the Full Faith and…
23-159 Antonio Perez v. City of Miami, Code Enforcement Board Florida 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law appellate-review brady-standard civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-disqualification judicial-review standing substantive-due-process Petitioner, a US citizen, was deprived of the granny flat in his home by a board where the city had a 99.4% win rate. Review was by appeal only. The c…
22-7770 Victor Jordan v. Josue Pierre, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-election-workers due-process election-day-workers election-inspector election-inspectors election-law incumbent-candidate poll-site-coordinator scanner-monitors substantive-due-process Does NY Election Law §§ 3-226(3) and 3-404(2),(3) violate the a candidate's right to substantive due process, where the district in which the candidat…
22-7624 Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process When "former" Oklahoma County District Judge Timothy Henderson entered in a sexual relationship with the prosecuting attorney, was Mr. Smith's substan…
22-1004 Kurt Garrison v. City of Ottawa, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2023-04-14 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias prejudice procedural-due-process professional-engineering right-to-trial-by-jury standard-of-review substantive-due-process 1. Whether substantive due process applied by the state district court when erroneously dismissing this case with no evidentiary hearing, without di…
22-7231 James Sonny Alaniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa…
22-6899 Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject 1. Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures by a physician in …
22-6831 Will Lee Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2023-02-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process This Court has ruled that a variation of mental commitment known in several states as a "sexually violent predator" commitment proceeding can be const…
22-6787 Mike Webb v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing standing-doctrine substantive-due-process 1. Whether it constitutes a violation of rights to procedural due process, where a Trial Court, and later a Circuit Court, have "erect[ed] a novel pru…
22-6326 Mark A. White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process illegal-detention judicial-error mcmillan-v-pennsylvania sentencing-factors sixth-amendment substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Justices of the 1986 Supreme Court "deviation " from clearly established law and the original meaning of the Constitution violated the…
22-6230 Derrick A. Edwards v. K. King, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-challenge free-exercise judicial-review least-restrictive-means procedural-limitations RLUIPA substantial-burden substantive-due-process Question not identified.
22-461 Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy I. Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their emplo…
22-5797 Marie C. Russo v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee on Behalf of the Holders of the Harborview Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-12 New Mexico 2022-10-07 Denied IFP due-process fair-adversarial-process jurisdiction stare-decisis constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-jurisdiction stare-decisis substantive-due-process Whether the Judiciary of the State of New Mexico violated my right of substantive due process pursuant to the XIVth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution…
22-232 Shane Place and Misty Blackwell, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Angel Place v. Joyce Anderson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deliberate-indifference due-process foster-care substantive-due-process summary-judgment 1. Did the court of appeals in its de novo review of summary judgment abuse its appellate jurisdiction and deny petitioners due process by refusing to…
22-42 Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Amici (7) civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process economic-liberty fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty meaningful-review occupation-rights occupational-licensing rational-basis-review substantive-due-process Does the Fourteenth Amendment require meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation?
21-8246 Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in (a) the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title 42 c. 126 U.S.C. ^ 12101) generally and Enforc…
21-7843 Tina Marie Bradford v. Los Angeles County Office of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process intermediate-scrutiny motion-practice motion-to-dismiss oral-argument procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process trial-by-jury 1. Plaintiff-Appellant questions whether Due Process Clause of the Constitution (Substantive Due Process) entitlement to trial by jury, the right to o…
21-7184 Richard Langley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fundamental-rights healthcare-rights medical-benefits medical-marijuana medication-alternatives right-to-life substantive-due-process Whether there is a fundamental right to use medical marijuana when it provides life-altering medical benefits that other medications cannot reasonably…
21-854 Rachel Maniscalco, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-rights executive-order government-action professional-restriction public-health public-sector substantive-due-process vaccination Respondents through an Executive Order demanded COVID-19 vaccinations for all public school employees, including teachers. Those who did not comply ha…
21-6479 Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process 1) WHETHER THE MISSOURI BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BY APPLYING A NEW PAROLE STATUTE, SECTION 5…
21-794 Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm 1. Whether an abused woman who faces increased danger from her abuser because State Actors have emboldened and condoned the abuser's violently escalat…
21-342 Hong Tang v. RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner, New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 appellate-preservation bolling-v-sharpe due-process equal-protection liberty-interest motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-litigation section-1983 substantive-due-process 1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the pro se litigant initially only argued his property interest in the complaint and then claimed wit…
21-283 In Re Roland N. Patterson 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process A) Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process when he was denied Reinstatement in 2012, without …
20-1785 Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th…
20-8239 Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process I. When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run …
20-8130 Jasma McCullough v. Shaylonda Herron, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-abuse child-abuse-investigation due-process medical-diagnosis procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process substantive-rights 1. Whether a child abuse investigator can give a medical diagnosis/opinion to the court without a Doctors opinion to remove a child. 2. Whether unau…
20-8011 Troy Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
20-7905 Christopher K. Skagen v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standard lawyer-discipline procedural-due-process substantive-due-process 1. For a judgment to be enforced, the originating statute must not just state 'judgment, ' as in BR 3.5(a) but it must also state 'and a court of a fo…
20-7642 Daniel Fetzer v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights due-process kansas-v-hendricks liberty liberty-interest mental-abnormality mental-health sexual-violence substantive-due-process Doesn't The State Of Florida Have to Obey Your United States Supreme Courts Law In Kansas VHendricks 117S.C.T. 2072 (U.S. Kan . 1997) On Page 2080 . Y…
20-7525 Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process? Is Sandin v. Conner, 518 U.S. 472 (1991) applicable to parole challenges? Is Vitek v…
20-1286 Sacramento County, California v. Joseph Hardesty, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) chosen-profession due-process executive-action executive-decisions land-use land-use-regulation legislative-decisions municipal-decision-making occupational-liberty substantive-due-process zoning-ordinance This case presents two questions involving efforts to expand the scope of the substantive component of the Due Process Clause. 1. Land-use regulation…
20-1276 Stephen B. McKinney v. Felicia Harkness Dean, Guardian and Conservator for and on Behalf of Janel Harkness, an Incapacitated Adult Fourth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied circuit-court-of-appeals clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference due-process intent-to-harm parratt-hudson parratt-hudson-doctrine qualified-immunity substantive-due-process 1. Did the Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to apply the Parratt-Hudson doctrine to the Respondent's substantive due process claim? 2. Did the…
20-1248 Kyle Kinzy, et ux. v. First Tennessee Bank, N.A. Illinois 2021-03-09 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious due-process electronic-filing filing-requirements state-official substantive-due-process 1. Whether a state official arbitrarily and capriciously violates substantive due process by rejecting a timely electronic filing merely because attac…
20-6997 Joe D. Bryan v. Texas Texas 2021-01-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution? If the criminal punishment of an i…
20-821 Mountainlands Conservancy, LLC, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived coastal-regulation due-process fourteenth-amendment land-use procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process takings zoning zoning-law 1. When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishm…
20-6189 Francisco Javier Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment base-offense-level constructive-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearm firearm-enhancement scienter sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment in this constructive poss…
20-6150 Andres Keyon Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b…
20-6064 Alan Justin Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-rights due-process evidence-procedure family-law hague-convention parental-rights substantive-due-process wrongful-removal 1. Whether the incommunicado detention of my natural Custodial children for over four months at the behest of Bothell Police Department because I was …
20-5895 Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process I. Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due procedd by failing to treat relators Jwith fundam ental fairness …
20-5374 In Re Amro Elansari 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-prohibition class-of-one constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review mandamus-writ medicinal-value substantive-due-process 1. Does the failure of the Third Circuit - and other courts - to consider the Plaintiffs substantive due process claims applied to the prohibition of …
19-8519 James E. Myers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause dna-testing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus substantive-due-process writ-of-certiorari (1). Whether Procedual Due Process, Substantive Due Process, Equal Protection, and Confrontational Clause have been violated by state concluding pri…
19-1136 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-in-time fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant legislative-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings substantive-due-process takings tenant-selection undue-oppression Based on its interpretation of federal law, the Washington Supreme Court overruled 68 regulatory takings and due process cases —130 years of jurisprud…
19-7963 Yehowshua Yisrael v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution jurisdiction manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process 1. Did the trial Court and State of Florida Prosecutor invoked a miscarriage of Justice and manifest Injustice as to wair their conduct did not compor…
19-7733 Gustavo Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co…
19-1036 Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender 1. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c). 2. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier I sex offender according to Adam W…
19-7229 Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. Tennessee 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process Does the Petitioner have a property interest in (1) Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the (2) Right to relief secured b…
19-837 Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. Kentucky 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a…
19-6975 Jason Lee Bennett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
19-6892 John R. Van Orden v. Mark Stringer, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split civil-commitment due-process fundamental-rights liberty-interest mental-health-confinement sexually-violent-predator shocks-the-conscience substantive-due-process I. What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis? II. Whether or not the Eight…
19-640 Andrew Clarke, et al. v. Ray D. Goodson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-theory standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process really mean anything, or is it mere mythology? Does equal protection of the law, apply to everyone, or not?
19-553 Moussa Diarra v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-bias monell-claim monell-liability police-procedure probable-cause substantive-due-process summary-judgment 1. For a summary judgment to be granted, the Circuits must determine that the movant is entitled to "judgment as a matter of law", Miller . New York C…
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process I. Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attai…
19-421 In Re William Henry Hamman 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights-education dual-enrollment due-process education equal-protection florida-statute home-education procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process 1) Florida 's public colleges and universities each require a high school GPA in order to participate in the Dual Enrollment program. But law states…
19-420 Alfred Risien Hamman v. University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Florida 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived carey-v-piphus civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-guarantees dual-enrollment due-process educational-rights extraordinary-cause extraordinary-process institutional-responsibility procedural-compliance procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process whistleblower whistleblower-protection 1) May we be denied procedural due process, including extraordinary process, guaranteed through the Constitution? 2) May the judicial branch leave …
19-5942 Wade Lay v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied IFP administrative-due-process brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process federal-intervention federalism judicial-review standing state-governance substantive-due-process takings I. HAS SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, AS A JUDICIAL DOCTRINE, WITH AMELIORATING STATUTES OVER TIME, SO ALTERED THE VITAL PRINCIPLES OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM,…
19-328 David Brennan v. White County, Arkansas Arkansas 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived alcohol-regulation civil-rights due-process governmental-purpose highway-system local-option-law private-clubs rational-basis-review social-science-evidence substantive-due-process 1. Is Arkansas' local option law, which social science research shows is ineffective at reducing alcohol consumption and actually increases DWI fata…
19-5877 Damion D. Faulkner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c…
19-5713 Larael Owens v. Tamesha Saddlers, et al. Florida 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-hearing due-process due-process' 'If a judge has a financial interest false-information financial-affidavit financial-interest fraud hearing judicial-bias judicial-ethics' 'Has the petitioner due process r lower-court lower-court' 'If a financial affidavit has false i procedural-due-process procedural-fairness recusal standing substantive-due-process void-judgment 1. ) Is a judgment that was issued from a lower court void if the lower court did not offer a hearing for that matter? 2. ) If a financial affidavit …
19-206 In Re Melba L. Ford 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders I. When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explan…
19-205 City of Flint, Michigan, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied 11th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights conscience-shocking due-process eleventh-amendment environmental-toxin governmental-policy standing state-immunity substantive-due-process 1. Whether the substantive due process right to bodily integrity should be extended to protect the public at large from exposure to an environmental t…
19-5510 Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process (1) Mr. Fortune certifies the Commonwealth of Virginia err in deferring contents essential to the definition of a trial. A trial; as defined by Merria…
18-9759 Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant I. Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus…
18A1308 Liane Shekter-Smith, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied bodily-integrity constitutional-rights drinking-water qualified-immunity state-regulators substantive-due-process Question not identified.
18-1465 County of San Diego, California v. Mark Mann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied child-welfare due-process fourth-amendment medical-examination municipal-liability parental-consent parental-notice parental-rights shocks-the-conscience special-needs special-needs-doctrine substantive-due-process When children in the County of San Diego are temporarily removed from their parents' care based on suspicion that they have been abused or neglected, …
18-9167 Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Violate Peritioner's Substantive Due $43 when it Convicted and Resentenced Htim For a Non-Existent Codified or Backed By …
18-1358 Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process Where the Eleventh Circuit found a constitutional violation in a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person w…
18-8947 Michael-Francis Palma v. Harris County Appraisal Review Board Texas 2019-04-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process property-rights state-judiciary statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process NOTE: In order to simplify and facilitate the courts understanding, items highlighted in yellow and the chart contained herein concerns case #2. All o…
18-1145 Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Amici (3) burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process 1. Under Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., 397 U.S. 137 (1970), the Dormant Commerce Clause is violated whenever the burden imposed on interstate commerce "…
18-7191 Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa…
18-745 Alan Overton v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights state-action strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process Substantive Due Process limits the state's authority to deprive individuals of fundamental rights. The Tennessee courts in this case failed to conduct…
18-669 Shane M. Gates v. Walter Reed, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act insurance-interference malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a District Attorney, who in his private law practice represented, and received hund…
18-648 Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea Whether in 1989 a law-enforcement officer violated a plaintiff's substantive due-process rights merely by recklessly gathering "unreliable" evidence i…
18-585 Ernest J. Franceschi, Jr. v. Betty T. Yee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder driver-licenses due-process hearing-opportunity license-suspension occupational-licenses procedural-rights retrospective-legislation substantive-due-process tax-delinquencies tax-delinquency California in 2012 enacted a statutory scheme to suspend the driver and occupational licenses of the largest state income tax delinquents. Revenue & T…
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings 1. Whether, and to what extent, on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint, viewing the government's…
18-6147 Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit I. Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while …
18-386 Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings Whether, as the court below held, the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction—such as maintaining a …
18-6054 In Re Michael Boone 2018-09-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive Due Process, Double Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe…
18-291 Gul Jaisinghani v. Anil Sharma, et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud constitutional-rights due-process duplicative-damages fair-trial joint-venture substantive-due-process supremacy-clause witness-exclusion 1. Given that a conspiracy to commit bank fraud is clearly illegal under federal law, as highlighted in the recent Manafort case, does a state's enfor…
18-5865 Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED STATE-CREATED LIBERTY INTEREST GUARANTEED UNDER THE FOU…
18-177 Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process When a criminal defendant has posted bond and is entitled to be released from jail subject only to administrative processing, does the defendant's rig…
18-5146 Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment I. In Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), this Court invalidated, as inconsistent with the requirements of substantive due process, Texas's blank…
18-5119 Ambrose King v. Mary King Maryland 2018-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-dismissal appeals award civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion monetary-award procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process vacatur DID THE LOWER COURT VIOLATE SUBSTANTIVE AND PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS IN NOT VACATING THE DISMISSAL OF THE APPEAL IN THE INSTANT MATTER? DID THE LOWER C…