thirteenth-amendment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1041 | Anthony Lewis v. HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-03-04 | Pending | attorney-sanctions federal-rules-civil-procedure first-amendment procedural-due-process rule-11-violations thirteenth-amendment | This petition seeks the following three-fold procedural and constitutional review: 1. Whether the district court deprived Dr. Lewis and his counsel o… | |
| 25-6918 | Ikia Butler v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-27 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure due-process employment-law federal-civil-service merit-systems-protection-board thirteenth-amendment | Where an agency refuses to remunerate an employee for work done for no apparent reason, is that tantamount to slavery under the Thirteenth Amendment? … |
| 25-920 | Louis Vargas, fka Louis Galynsky v. Vincent Rodriguez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | civil-rights due-process peonage-claim pro-se-litigation supplemental-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's federal peonage claim under 18 U.S.C. § 1581, by failing to recognize that economic coer… | |
| 25A455 | Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5798 | Mikhael Y. Lerman v. Celine E. Lerman | California | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment | 1. Whether California Family Code § 2550, as applied in this case, violates my Equal Protection and Due Process rights. 2. Whether rigid equal divisi… |
| 25-5492 | Shedrick Givens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2025-08-28 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-information constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment grand-jury subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | 1. Whether the trial court, in the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, lacked subject matter jurisdiction where in United States v. Cot… |
| 24-1131 | Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-05 | Denied | circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking … | |
| 24-5839 | Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d… |
| 23-7525 | Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-05-21 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment | IS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BARRED BY THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE AT HARD LA… |
| 23-1138 | Angela Williams, et al. v. Joseph Lombardo, Governor of Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment article-iii-standing causation civil-procedure civil-rights government-liability section-1983 standing thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims-protection-act | Petitioners were sex trafficked within Nevada's legalized prostitution system, and sued the businesses that trafficked them, and the government entiti… |
| 23-6665 | Ole Hougen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | badges-of-slavery bodily-injury civil-rights congressional-power criminal-law federal-criminal-law federalism hate-crimes race-discrimination thirteenth-amendment | Whether Congress's power to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude authorizes Congress to criminalize ass… |
| 23-263 | Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority rule-60(b)(4) standing subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment void-judgment | 1. Is there a time limit to file a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a judgment order as void for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction; after the trial co… |
| 22-7634 | Alan Headman v. Camille Headman, aka Camille Bromley | Utah | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 13th-amendment alimony alimony-servitude civil-rights court-coercion due-process involuntary-servitude jury-trial pre-nuptial-agreement thirteenth-amendment | Whether the United States Supreme Court should order the use of a deference doctrine (referred to as "Headman Deference" outlined in this petition) th… |
| 22-539 | Juliet Anilao, et al. v. Thomas J. Spota, III, Individually and as District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation first-amendment prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action thirteenth-amendment | 1. Whether a plaintiff can defeat a prosecutor's absolute immunity from suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by demonstrating that the prosecutor lacked any co… |
| 22-6275 | Dalton Alonzo Dixon v. North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | IFP | 13th-amendment citizenship civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-labor-program government-program involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment | CONSENT OF CLASS BAJ , idun pardici pacing o^Vernmojal program ? \\ -(Wa, S^a^orn prt50n>p^on(s) ftrc(L labor a Violation of db<Lin an ran /) "tfhrW… |
| 22-5651 | In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El | 2022-09-22 | Denied | IFP | citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 22-5512 | Maurice Diggins v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-249 district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction public-interest public-interest-prosecution racially-motivated-assault substantial-justice thirteenth-amendment | Does a United States district court constitutionally have jurisdiction under the Thirteenth Amendment when the United States prosecutes a defendant fo… |
| 22-91 | Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment | Borrowing the form of Justice Alito's framing of the question presented in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392 (June 24, 2022), … |
| 21-1408 | Peter Efo v. Diane Fondjo | Maryland | 2022-05-02 | Denied | 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-order damages due-process employment-law labor labor-rights restitution thirteenth-amendment | Whether a Court Order for refund of paid labor cost for work ordered by an employer and was completed by a laborer violates the U.S.C. Amendment XIII … | |
| 21-215 | Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process government-consent petition-for-redress second-amendment self-defense thirteenth-amendment | Does petitioner need the government's consent to petition the government for redress of his grievance that the government has held him in Thirteenth A… |
| 20-7995 | John C. Stuart v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-05-12 | Denied | IFP | due-process emancipation graft judicial-bias judicial-impartiality private-prisons subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | Does the state court have subject-matter jurisdiction in a trial wherein the judge of which shall receive extrajudicially paid pecuniary gain ("Graft"… |
| 20-1558 | Vinay Yadav v. Texas | Texas | 2021-05-10 | Denied | civil-rights conspiracy-against-civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ninth-amendment sixth-amendment thirteenth-amendment | 1. Texas contravenes the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution on multi-count and contradicts SCOTUS. SCOTUS has yet to answer all States con… | |
| 20-1500 | Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment | 1. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States court of ap… |
| 20-6847 | Christopher Bryan Torres v. Brad Livingston, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 13th-amendment civil-rights involuntary-servitude legal-rights prison-labor pro-se pro-se-complaint section-1983 thirteenth-amendment | QUESTION #1: Do 13th Amendment slaves, or those under involuntary servitude, have legal rights when filing pro se § 1983 complaints for serious injuri… |
| 20-698 | Alan Headman v. Royal I. Hansen, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inadequate-forum involuntary-servitude judicial-immunity thirteenth-amendment | Regarding the application of 13th Amendment protection, whether the lack of I. "specific" terms within a written agreement should prevent state court … |
| 20-288 | ALCR, LLC v. Linda W. Swain, et al. | Arizona | 2020-09-04 | Denied | business-operation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-order involuntary-servitude private-property thirteenth-amendment | Whether a court order requiring the owner of private property to operate a business on the private property violates the involuntary servitude provisi… | |
| 20-181 | Daniel L. Miles v. Kristine Svinicki, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights class-action class-certification discriminatory-hiring due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment | Whether the Seventh Circuit panel majority's decision, rendered on February 28, 2020, affirming the judgment of the District Court conflicts with the … |
| 19-6044 | Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC | Massachusetts | 2019-09-24 | Denied | IFP | anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment | I. As applied, does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land Subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B) (vi) ("IRC … |
| 19-5989 | Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-09-18 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity | 1. Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury ve… |
| 19-5841 | Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | IFP | due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment | Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla… |
| 19-124 | Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentence criminal-sentencing dred-scott due-process emancipation involuntary-servitude judicial-relief thirteenth-amendment | Amendment XIII [1865] Section I. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly co… |
| 18A1210 | Marshall Martinez v. Todd Thomas, Warden | Arizona | 2019-05-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation incarceration jurisdiction legal-status thirteenth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9250 | Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment | Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case if the Plaintiff is suffering for many years (over five and a half yea… |
| 18-7392 | In Re James Rudnick | 2019-01-10 | Denied | IFP | 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment | 1 Whether the Respondent [Warden Hansen] - employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections] has valid authority (in accord with the thirteenth and … | |
| 18-787 | Robert Lee Rhoe, II v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement | Maryland | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment child-support civil-rights dna dna-rights due-process economic-enslavement liberty paternity-testing property takings thirteenth-amendment | Does MCOCSE and the Maryland Courts have jurisdiction and legal authority to intervene on behalf of a foreign person illegally present in the United S… |