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25A375 Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims Fifth Circuit 2025-10-01 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-appeal federal-rules jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se time-bar Question not identified.
24-1239 Cara Wessels Wells v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights-act discrimination employment-status remuneration time-bar title-vii Does an unpaid position qualify someone to be an "employee" within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f)?
24-7163 Jose Nieves Briones v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-diligence habeas-corpus supreme-court-jurisdiction time-bar QUESTION No. 1: DOES THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO REVIEW THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY A COURT OF APPEALS …
24-6873 Roland C. Anderson v. General Motors LLC Third Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal court-deadline due-process judicial-procedure legal-equity time-bar When I missed my deadline, my case would be dismissed but when they missed their deadline it was not dismissed. See in this (certiorari) it will show …
24-6838 Cortez Bennett v. Johnny Fitz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling judicial-discretion legal-remedy statute-of-limitations time-bar I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING OF ONE YEAR STSTUTE OF LIMITATIONS?
24-703 Ryan Haygood, et al. v. Camp Morrison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied attorney-fees civil-rights due-process frivolity section-1983 time-bar 1. Is it proper to deem an otherwise meritorious § 1983 claim "so clearly time-barred" that it is frivolous under § 1988 based solely on an uncertain …
24-5338 Jerry Lester Willis v. Warden, Valdosta State Prison Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied IFP federal-civil-procedure judicial-review merits-not-reached multi-round-litigation rule-60-motion time-bar NO. ONE: Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(d), if an issue has been presented through several rounds of litigation in both state and Fede…
24A109 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar Question not identified.
23A953 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete actual-innocence administrative-error filing-deadline habeas-corpus pro-se time-bar Question not identified.
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar 1. Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent against public defenders? 2. Is it unconstitutional for the St…
23-99 Wendy B. Adelson v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, nka PHH Mortgage Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure due-process foreclosure foreclosure-sale mortgage-acceleration mortgage-lender post-acceleration-charges procedural-exception sheriff-sale time-bar If after a mortgage lender's acceleration of the entire balance of the loan terminates borrower's duty to make periodic payments, then. I. Can the le…
22-7570 Gideon Charles Arrington v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence fraud legal-ethics legal-system standing statute-of-limitations time-bar 1. Can the use of false evidence (which is fraud) be time/knaffla barred? 2. Is anyone above or below the law? 3. Is it a justice system or a legal …
22-6416 Nicholas Lee Blair v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b time-bar Whether a Petitioner can utilize a motion under Rule 60(b) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or similar vehicle, to overcome a dismissal without preju…
22-6035 Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California California 2022-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits DOES THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL APPEAL TIME LIMIT (TIME BAR) VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S 14TH AMNEDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE PERTAINING…
21-8124 Kywon A. Datham v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure danger-to-community due-process incarcerated-persons judicial-discretion rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing time-bar Whether District of Colombia Court of Appeals errd when it denid petitioner's Request For summary reversal? Did the Lower Courts abuse their discreti…
21-7953 Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's "Judge: Robert L. Miller, de," erred in his decision makin…
21-7521 Paul E. Pieczynski v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Relisted (3)IFP arbitration arbitration-award civil-action civil-procedure confirmation federal-arbitration-act miscellaneous-filing statutory-interpretation time-bar The Federal Arbitration Act Title 9 section 12 bars vacating or modifying award after three months. Is the petition or motion, when seeking confirmati…
21-1077 Yacaira Reyes v. Westchester County Health Care Corporation, dba Westchester Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process election-of-remedies employment hostile-work-environment plausibility-standard retaliation retaliation-claim time-bar 1) Whether the Courts below erred in holding the election of remedies and New York City impact doctrines barred Plaintiff's NYSHRL and NYCHRL claims, …
21-982 Timothy O. Markland v. Asset Acceptance, LLC Oklahoma 2022-01-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure debt-collection default-judgment due-process extrinsic-evidence service-of-process statute-of-limitations time-bar 1. Whether rigid invocation of the non-extrinsic evidence rule denies due process when a debt collection company obtains a default judgment and then w…
21-5395 In Re Christopher Burgess 2021-08-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar 1. In the interest of justice, should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both "actial innocence " and in…
20-8304 Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as…
20-7946 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits The First Circuit held that Fed. R. App P. 4la) is jurisdictronal under Bowles v.Russell, 551 4.s. 205, 214(2007), and dismissed Ms. Birons 2255-proce…
20-7371 Chase Adam Marsh v. Leslie Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-ruling section-2254 standing statute-of-limitations time-bar Question not identified.
20-6695 Lori Anna Massey v. MultiCare Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law due-process legal-incompetency mental-incompetency physical-disability statute-of-limitations time-bar tolling 1. Should no time limit apply?
20-394 David Alan Schum v. Fortress Value Recovery Fund I, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-precedent officers-of-the-court rule-60 stare-decisis time-bar 1. Whether a claim brought under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(d)(3) as a result of fraud on the court by attorneys who are sworn officers …
20-392 Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police New Jersey 2020-09-25 Denied administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar A rule was violated because No Statement was Obtained From Me For the Preliminary Hearing and Yet I was Terminated. State Police Counsel used Law Agai…
19-8159 Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar (1) When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursue…
19-7607 Jon P. Westrum v. National Labor Relations Board Eighth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alter-ego-doctrine civil-rights due-process labor-dispute labor-law legal-standing sole-proprietorship statute-of-limitations time-bar union-representation (1) a one man shop cannot be represented by the union, (see Stack Electric decision). (2) the 6 month time bar had lapsed, (see transcripts). (3) th…
19-7177 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen…
19-6794 Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination 1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta…
19-6611 William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar 1. Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct?
19-470 Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) states that an employee may file a civil action in district court 120 days after filing an appeal with the Merit Systems Prot…
19-455 ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-315 35-usc-315(b) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction due-process estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab time-bar 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has appellate jurisdiction to review a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") denying institution of an…
19-5217 Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 GVR IFP ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY MAXIMUM…
18-9499 Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar 1.) Hows Can the Bureay of Prisons make petitioners Federal Sentence, when petitioner was sentenced on 11/iz/1999 under manttory sentencing Gidelines"…
18-8778 Fred Huffman v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-justice ex-post-facto-law judicial-vindictiveness redress-of-grievance retroactive-sentencing time-bar Absent a constitutional amendment promulgated by the U.S. Congress, under what circumstances {if any} does a legislative body have a lawful right to a…
18-8685 Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a of writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of app…
18-1027 Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (4) 35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether, under § 314(d), a party may appeal the PTAB's application of § 315(b)'s time-bar provision made during its decision to institute IPR. 2. …
18-999 Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar The 2011 America Invents Act provides for inter partes review (IPR), an administrative procedure designed to streamline patentability challenges. Cong…
18-7661 Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely This case presents two questions pertaining to the "proper filing" requirement that were left open by Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408 (2005) and tha…
18-916 Thryv, Inc., fka Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-15 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 america-invents-act cuozzo inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab section-315b time-bar wi-fi-one 1. Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB's decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)'s time bar did not …
18-7357 David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar (1). Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 19…
18-861 WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation Federal Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar 35 U.S.C. §315(b) bars the Patent Office from instituting inter partes review proceedings to challenge a patent's validity "if the petition requesting…
18-599 Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-315b administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa indemnity-agreements inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab standard-of-review time-bar 1. Did the appellate panel below err by disregarding 5 U.S.C. §706 and instead applying the Federal Circuit's "abuse of discretion" standard of review…
18-5687 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar 1.) Whether ding he tiaevieoce gertd by federal proedural and substantive de proces of law preseribed particubarly by the 7rotected liberty interest i…
18-5569 Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar 1) Does the Classification made by this Court in Coley d. Sattald Jan 8.64. 3134 constitute the Circuit Court as being contrary to Clearly established…
18-5472 In Re Alan James Hedrick 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013), permits a state court prisoner to rely on "actual innocence" as a gateway to pursue constitutional …
24A307 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied constitutional-review habeas-corpus identity-claim prisoner-rights procedural-default time-bar Question not identified.
25A280 David Joseph Pittman v. Florida Florida Denied atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar Question not identified.