In Re Melba L. Ford

I. When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explanation, do they violate litigants’ rights to substantive due process and to meaningful access to courts? II. In regard to income tax causes, since district judges are aware that any order they issue denying relief to unrepresented litigants will be ratified on appeal, does such setting violate the separation of powers, litigants’ rights to substantive due process, and is it such a departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory power? III. When credible, explicit allegations are presented by unrepresented litigants that government-paid attorneys are committing fraud in regard to the litigation, should courts be required to appoint counsel for the victims, fully paid by the government? IV. Are so-called “General Rules” of Circuits void, which purport to authorize Circuit panel members to eliminate access by unrepresented litigants to the en banc circuit, when appeal is sought of panel members’ acts or failures to act?