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Federal lawsuit guides
The kinds of federal civil case people most often face without a lawyer, or with a small practice behind them. Each guide explains what the rules require and when, cites the statute or rule it comes from, and shows how many such cases were filed this month, by district, counted from the district courts' own filing feeds.
- Appealing a Social Security denial to federal court — 254 new Social Security appeals filed in federal court in the last 30 days, across 53 districts
- Suing USCIS or the State Department over a delay — 129 new suits against USCIS or the State Department filed in federal court in the last 30 days, across 34 districts
- Suing a credit bureau over a credit report error — 109 new credit reporting suits naming Equifax or TransUnion filed in federal court in the last 30 days, across 25 districts
- Sued by Strike 3 Holdings as a “John Doe” — 180 new Strike 3 Holdings cases filed in federal court in the last 30 days, across 12 districts
- Filing a habeas corpus petition for someone held in immigration detention — 704 new habeas petitions and other suits naming immigration detention officials filed in federal court in the last 30 days, across 46 districts
- Your FedEx overtime case was severed and re-filed: what happens now — 1,462 new suits naming Federal Express Corporation as defendant filed in federal court in the last 30 days, across 15 districts
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