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Anthony Wayne March v. United States

IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 24-6635 · judgment May 27, 2025


Certiorari denied · June 8, 2026

Questions presented

  1. Structural Collapse of Due Process and Separation of Powers. Whether the Constitution’s Due Process Clause, The Separation-of-Powers Doctrine, and the mandatory “disinterestedness” safeguards codified in 11 U.S.C. §§ 101(14), 324(a), 327(a), 701-703, 1104, and 28 U.S.C. § 586(a), are violated when a United States (NC) Bankruptcy Administrator’s staff attorney compels appointment of a trustee to administer two adverse estates — an individual debtor’s Chapter 7 estate and that debtor’s affiliated § 501 (c)(3) nonprofit estate in Chapter 11 where a federal bankruptcy judge approves the conflicted dual appointment, privately converts the nonprofit’s Chapter 11 case to Chapter 7 ex parte without notice or hearing required by 11 U.S.C. § 1112(b) and Fed. R. Bankr. P. 2002(a)(4), then later contradicts his own findings only after the conflict produced irreparable loss, and permits the same conflicted trustee to resign from the individual debtor’s estate while remaining over the organization’s estate for personal financial gain while the same conflicted BA-staff attorney later crosses the barrier into the Executive Branch to serve as “Special Assistant U.S. Attorney” to prosecute the individual debtor for loss and victimization he himself manufactured; thereby weaponizing the judicial process in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1505, 1519, 152, 208, 216, and contravening this Court’s precedent forbidding conflicted fiduciaries or prosecutors from acting in the same cause, including Mosser v. Darrow, 341 U.S. 267 (1951) and Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et Fils S.A., 481 U.S. 787 (1987); and whether such convergence of fiduciary breach and prosecutorial conflict constitutes structural error per se, requiring automatic vacatur of all resulting judgments and orders?

  2. Rule 4(b) Cognizability and Rule 12(b)(6) Incompatibility. Whether, after a district court issues an order under Rule 4(b) of the Rules Governing § 2255 Proceedings directing the Government to respond thereby finding the petition “cognizable” and finding at least one constitutional claim warranting response, the Government may nonetheless file a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim without violating judicial consistency, due process, and the statutory screening function recognized in Blackledge v. Allison, 431 U.S. 63 (1977), and United States v. Dyess, 730 F.3d 354 (4th Cir. 2013)? A

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anthony Wayne March

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Linked docket
25M67, 25A222, 25A1035

Proceedings

  1. Aug 17 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jul 23 2026
    DISTRIBUTED.
  3. Jun 15 2026
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jun 08 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  5. May 20 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/4/2026.
  6. May 14 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  7. Apr 20 2026
    Motion Granted.
  8. Apr 01 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2026.
  9. Mar 23 2026
    Application (25A1035) to file petition for a writ of certiorari in excess of page limits granted by The Chief Justice. The petition for a writ of certiorari may not exceed 50 pages.
  10. Dec 12 2025
    Application (25A1035) to file petition for a writ of certiorari in excess of page limits, submitted to The Chief Justice.
  11. Oct 17 2025
    Motion of petitioner for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal filed.
  12. Oct 17 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 21, 2026)
  13. Aug 27 2025
    Application (25A222) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until October 24, 2025.
  14. Aug 14 2025
    Application (25A222) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 25, 2025 to October 24, 2025, submitted to The Chief Justice.