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In Re Joseph Cammarata

IFP petition


Certiorari denied · January 20, 2026

Questions presented

  1. Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Due Process Clause and the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), by refusing for over eight months to rule on an unopposed petition for a writ of mandamus—a petition whose foundational allegations of constitutional violations, judicial conflicts, and a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction have never been denied by any respondent—thereby nullifying the right to appellate review and compelling this Court's extraordinary intervention to cure a total breakdown of judicial process.

  2. Whether the Third Circuit's deliberate refusal to apply or even acknowledge controlling Supreme Court precedent—Sprint v. APCC Services, 554 U.S.'269 (2008)—which establishes that the underlying conduct is not a crime, constitutes judicial bias and misconduct so severe as to warrant this Court's supervisory mandamus to vacate a conviction void for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

  3. Whether a federal court's persistent enforcement of criminal convictions and civil restraints after the legal basis for its jurisdiction has been conclusively negated by binding law violates the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process and requires immediate corrective action by this Court.

  4. Whether this Court will uphold its duty to apply the law and correct a fundamental miscarriage of justice—by ordering the release of an individual whose continued imprisonment rests on proceedings irreparably tainted by documented, unrefuted structural violations, including the denial of due process, undisclosed conflicts, failure to apply controlling law, and judicial misconduct that, if acknowledged, necessarily implicates the integrity of the lower courts.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Joseph Cammarata

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. May 18 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Apr 22 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/14/2026.
  3. Jan 21 2026
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jan 20 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Dec 31 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/16/2026.
  6. Dec 05 2025
    Supplemental brief of petitioner Joseph Cammarata filed. (Distributed)
  7. Dec 03 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  8. Oct 21 2025
    Petition for a writ of mandamus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 15, 2025)