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Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al.

IFP petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, First District, No. 01-22-00878-CV · judgment June 18, 2024


Certiorari denied · October 6, 2025

Question presented

1- Whether the state’s trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court’s final judgment to dismiss with prejudice, all claims against all defendants for lack of jurisdiction, is in violation of the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause. 2- Whether the trial court’s Order to Grant TWC’s plea to the jurisdiction, without i, pn offering the petitioner an opportunity to (at least hear) the plea or to respond to it in a Live Hearing, is in violation of the Due Process Clause, and the Right to be Heard. 3- Whether the Texas Workforce Commission’s clear procedural errors violated the Due Process Clause, and the Right to be Heard, when the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) (reversed the decision) which qualified the petitioner to receive unemployment benefits, before and without processing the (already filed) with the Texas Workforce Commission, the employer/ respondent’s (HTS) appeal from the qualifying decision. 4- Whether the petitioner is entitled, under the Due Process Clause, to move to disqualify or recuse the impartial, bias and prejudice appeals court’s justice(s), and whether the petitioner was deprived by the Texas supreme court from the right to appeal the appealable denied motion. 5- Whether the Texas supreme court's Denials to the direct appeal/the petition for review, and the motion for rehearing with its federal claims, are in violation of the Supremacy Clause.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Awad Mustafa

For respondent
William Cohen
Attorney General of Texas

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 06 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 21 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
  3. Jul 31 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Texas Workforce Commission to respond filed.
  4. Mar 06 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 13, 2025)