summary-affirmance
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6696 | Evelyn R. Benton v. Berkshire Richmond LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review mandamus record-review summary-affirmance | 1. The Record less Review: Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and acts in excess of its jurisd… |
| 25-6676 | Vincent Terry v. Teresa Bailey, et al. | Georgia | 2026-01-29 | Pending | IFP | attorney-immunity constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment summary-affirmance | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state appellate court resolves federal constitutional claims through … |
| 25A845 | CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Application | administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process federal-circuit patent-review summary-affirmance | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6087 | Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review due-process evidence-transcription judicial-proceedings summary-affirmance supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether a Federal Court may grant summary affirmance of an appeal taken from the district court order denying transcription of audio and video reco… |
| 24A777 | ATOS, LLC, dba RideMetric v. Allstate Insurance Company | Federal Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review due-process federal-circuit patent-review ptab-decision summary-affirmance | Question not identified. | |
| 24A700 | Caed Brawner v. Florida | Florida | 2025-01-16 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process florida-law post-conviction summary-affirmance | Whether it is a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual … | |
| 24A563 | Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler | Second Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari pro-se summary-affirmance supreme-court-rules time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6113 | Laura Hammett v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous due-process judicial-discretion summary-affirmance | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the appellant's due process rights under U.S. Const, amend. XIV by affirming each of the district… |
| 23-6877 | Omar S. Folk v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amended-complaint certiorari-finality civil-procedure district-court-dismissal due-process procedural-error standing summary-affirmance third-circuit-error third-circuit-review | 1. Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Summarily Affirmed District Court Dismissal on Plaintiff's Third Amend Complaint Doc. 196 before his original Ce… |
| 23-533 | Jack Jordan v. Department of Justice | District of Columbia | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure due-process federal-appeals fraud judicial-misconduct misconduct rule-60-motion standing summary-action summary-affirmance | 1. Whether a US. Court of Appeals may preclude appellant's filing of any brief and presentation of any oral argument by merely asserting the vague con… |
| 23-5135 | Leonardo Burgos-Valencia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure ninth-circuit right-to-be-heard standing substantial-rights summary-affirmance | I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT 'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE VIOLATED PETITIONER BURGOS-VALENCAI 'S RIGHT TO BE HEARD? II. WHETER THE DISPARITY IN COMPARISON T… |
| 22-7278 | Christopher J. Ward-Malone v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus pro-se standing summary-affirmance | Question not identified. |
| 22-923 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. | District of Columbia | 2023-03-22 | Denied | civil-rights discrimination-claims due-process first-amendment judicial-error right-to-petition summary-affirmance title-vii | Whether inexcusable error by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an Order that was unclear with judicial errors that is … | |
| 22-6104 | Esteban Parra-Reyes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-sentencing judicial-discretion ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sentencing summary-affirmance | I. Whether The Denial Of Esteban Para Reyes's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion? II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Af… |
| 22-5317 | Dora L. Adkins v. Merrifield Hotel Associates, LP | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-reasoning standard-of-review standing summary-affirmance unpublished-opinion | 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the Order, Dated, July 28, 2022, when it "reviewed the record and found … |
| 21-8048 | Michael Ray Kapp v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance | I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Kapp's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion? II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-7725 | Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings," Sup. Ct. R. 1… |
| 21-1321 | Yan Sui v. Richard A. Marshack, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure civil-rights discharge-injunction due-process ninth-circuit property-rights standing summary-affirmance takings | Layperson Yan Sui is not legally trained to correctly raise the question for Court to decide. Sui has thought about these questions: (1) whether lower… |
| 21-6992 | Michael Rocky Lane v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance | I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Lane's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion? II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 20-8148 | Mike Vigil v. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss open-court-hearing pleading-defects rule-15-amendment sovereign-immunity standing summary-affirmance | Is this Document that I TRUSTWORTHY ?? My Question is the Below STATUTE Valid and Firm ?? My Question is the Amendments SUMMONS CONSTITUTION FEDERAL… |
| 20-1100 | Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights | Petitioners are two California Republicans and two non-profit organizations who have alleged their votes for President and Vice President are diluted … |
| 20-847 | Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority | I. Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory authority to issue the Writ of Certiorari to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Circuit Court"… |
| 20-6167 | Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-1653 arbitration-award civil-procedure compensatory-damages declaratory-relief federal-circuit federal-circuit-court henry-schein motion-to-dismiss standing summary-affirmance | Question not identified. |
| 20-6076 | Harold Pena v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis due-process indictment-defect jurisdiction-errors jurisdictional-error marpol-violation material-evidence material-evidence-suppression summary-affirmance | 1.- What is the appropriate standard of review, when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal improperly and controversy, Grants the Government's Motion f… |
| 18-855 | Ray Allen, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. v. International Association of Machinists District Ten, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Dismissed | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | dues-checkoff federal-law labor-law labor-relations national-labor-relations-act preemption right-to-work summary-affirmance union-authorization | Whether this Court should overrule its summary affirmance in Sea Pak v. Industrial, Technical, and Professional Employees, Division of National Mariti… |
| 18-598 | Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ | Whether the Second Circuit erred that to grant Appellees motion for summary affirmance while to deny Chien's three motions as moot, indicating so far … |
| 18-6107 | Jacob Logan Stone v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-bar procedural-bars reentry summary-affirmance supervised-release | Stone was summarily denied a modification of conditions of release based on a procedural ground he had no warning of or chance to brief. On appeal, de… |