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In Re Donald Bowers
IFP petition
Question presented
OUESTION(S) PRESENTED ISSUE ONE Whether, in a “Misconduct Petition” can the Chief Judge, and subsequent Judicial Counsel, “Dismiss” a “Complaint” regarding a violation of Petitioner’s Constitutional Civil Rights without providing any supporting facts, supporting law, and/or investigative facts to support a “Dismissal”, where the subject matter resulted in unconstitutional imprisonment, as well as other substantial harm caused by unconstitutional and unlawful acts. ISSUE TWO Whether, in a private civil case in Utah, Case No. 2:07-cv-037, where the Petitioner [a Georgia resident with “no ties” to Utah], and who was not a litigant in the underlying Utah Civil Matter, can be taken into custody in his home town in Georgia, by U.S. Marshalls from Utah, and transported directly to Utah, with no Hearing in Georgia, by the Utah U.S. Marshalls [and incarcerated for months] for “alleged” civil contempt while that subject “civil contempt matter” was under appeal in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. ISSUE THREE Whether the Dismissal of Petitioner’s Complaint constituted a violation of the Petitioner’s Rights pursuant to!8 U.S.C. § 242. ISSUE FOUR Whether Judge Holmes and the Judicial Counsel violated Petitioner’s Constitutional Rights when they ignored the substantial number of “jurisdictional” violations, to include a violation of the doctrine of res judicata, [re: civil--Failure to Appear] by the underlying District Court in “Denying” Petitioner’s Complaint and Petitioner’s “Petition for Review”. ISSUE FIVE Whether the Petitioner’s Fifth Amendment Rights were violated. ISSUE SIX Whether the Petitioner’s Sixth Amendment Rights were violated. ISSUE SEVEN Whether the Petitioner’s Fourteenth Amendment Rights were violated.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Donald Bowers
For respondent
Jerome A. Holmes
United States Court of Appeals
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Dec 08 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 19 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
- Nov 05 2025Waiver of right of respondent Chief Judge Jerome A. Holmes to respond filed.
- Sep 27 2025Petition for a writ of mandamus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 13, 2025)