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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-686 Gary Sebastian Brown, III v. Federal Bureau of Investigation District of Columbia 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived confidential-source exemption-7d foia foreseeable-harm law-enforcement transparency I. Whether, after the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, an agency invoking Exemption 7(D) must, in addition to establishing that the exemption applies, se…
23A1175 Dennis M. Buckovetz v. Department of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Presumed Complete administrative-law foia government-accountability judicial-review military-records transparency Question not identified.
23-7758 In Re Janice Wolk Grenadier 2024-06-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accountability judicial-accountability judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency oversight public-trust transparency 1. Judges play a crucial role in upholding justice and the rule of law within a society. However, like any position of power, judges are not immune to…
23-1299 Ade Olumide v. Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2024-06-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process mandatory-decertification open-court open-government police-misconduct press-freedom risk-of-harm transparency Article IV s4, Article VI s2, 1st, 4th, 5th, 14th Amendments refer to the U.S. Constitution. Question 1: Do incite harm tests for the US Supreme Cour…
23-1159 Roland Huff v. BP Corporation North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied employee-benefits erisa group-life-insurance group-policy information-disclosure insurance-rates life-insurance policy-contract rate-increase transparency Do employees and retirees have the right under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to obtain information and documentation from their …
23-7072 Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accountability administrative-law civil-rights data-integrity due-process federal-employees federal-jurisdiction judicial-review transparency whistleblower-protection 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court's consolidation of appeals and selective review exacerbate the case's complexity, undermining the principles of thorou…
23-6516 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure transparency treason 1. Are intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and or individual governmental employees immune to federal law prosecutions, lawsuits, and sanction …
23-129 Eddie Tardy v. Corrections Corporation of America, nka CoreCivic, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-procedure court-records first-amendment intervention judicial-records judicial-standing public-access sealed-documents standing transparency transparency-rights Whether an intervenor's interest in transparency is sufficient to confer standing to seek access to sealed or protected judicial records (as the First…
23-57 Julio Yee Cabrera, et al. v. Enrique Lozano, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied appellate-discretion attorney-fees circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning judicial-transparency legal-reasoning procedural-review standing transparency Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals panel has unfettered discretion in every matter (outside of a small number of statutory exceptions) to withhold all in…
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency 1. Should a final report of a chapter 7 bankruptcy case be divided into five parts thus depriving the debtor of transparency so as to prevent errors, …
21-78 GLM DFW, Inc. v. Windstream Holdings, Inc. Second Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeals creditor-priority critical-vendor-payments critical-vendors delegation-of-judicial-function equality equitable-mootness judicial-delegation transparency transparency-principle This case concerns the dismissal of bankruptcy appeals as equitably moot without evaluating the merits of the appeals. Early in the Windstream bankru…
20-7513 Loretta Jones v. New York City Police Department, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment accountability civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process institutional-racism law-enforcement-technology public-oversight public-scrutiny transparency Entities responsible for our country's over incarceration and institutional racism are today taxed with uses of both new and old technologies that fai…
19-615 Elaine Ward v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-liability service-of-process state-court-proceedings transparency 1. Is there a violation of due process and equal protection under the 5th and 14th amendments as related to 42 U.S.C. 1983, when a municipality, fails…
19-6529 James Tyson, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance rule-6-motion sealing-orders standing transparency I.) Was the district courts denial of Petitioners Rule 6 motion to unseal documents a denial of Petitioners due process rights? II.) Was counsel cons…
19-395 Christina Alessio v. United Airlines, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Relisted (2) air-quality aircraft-cabin aircraft-safety chemical-exposure chemical-substances civil-rights compliance federal-law federal-law-49-usc-5124 federal-oversight government-oversight oversight product-disclosure public-health transparency transportation-regulations Introduction: With great respect this case is about Life, Liberty and the pursuit for Righteousness at 30,000 feet. Federal Law Fact: Federal Rule of…
19-145 Vincent Mastanduno v. National Freight Industries, et al. North Carolina 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-rights due-process health-information informational-privacy privacy public-disclosure public-interest state-action state-agency state-disclosure transparency Does a person have a constitutional right to privacy over his personal health information; and where the State publishes a person's private health inf…
18-9706 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-concealment evidence-disclosure fair-trial judicial-access judicial-procedure mandamus material-facts rules-and-regulations standing state-procedure transparency THE CONSTITUTION of THE UNITED STATES AND PETITIONERS Rights thereof For the state to CONCEAL EVIDENCE IN FILES THAT ARE INVISIBLE TO THE JUDICIAL ACC…
18-8114 Anthony Boyd v. Joe D. Driver, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence government-transparency legal-standing material-fact standing summary-judgment transparency video-evidence Whether Lack Of Transparency Of Video Evidence By The d Fact In A Civil Action?
18-896 Missouri Ethics Commission, et al. v. Free and Fair Election Fund, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance constitutional-law contribution-caps corruption first-amendment free-speech political-action-committee political-action-committees state-regulation transparency Under the First Amendment, may a state prohibit political action committees from transferring money to other political action committees?