Karen Y. Baez v. Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., et al.

Whether a district court violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by dismissing a factually supported pro se complaint as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B), without reviewing the full record or addressing serious claims of fraud, abuse of process, and professional misconduct—particularly where the allegations implicate violations of judicial and attorney ethical duties.

Whether the lower courts’ application of the mootness doctrine—without considering well-established exceptions such as ongoing collateral consequences and matters capable of repetition yet evading review— improperly foreclosed judicial scrutiny of claims involving systemic misconduct, abuse of corporate structures, malicious litigation, and the improper denial of equitable tolling.

Whether a court may summarily dismiss a pro se complaint at the screening stage based on a compelled, oversimplified claim form, perceived procedural defects, or subjective assessments of damages—while disregarding the original complaint’s factual complexity and legal plausibility—in contravention of Ashcroft v. Iqbal, Rule 8, Rule 11, and the constitutional right of access to the courts recognized in Bounds v. Smith and Lewis v. Casey.