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Edward Lee Gonzales, et ux. v. Patrick H. McDonald, et al.
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 25-40102 · judgment December 17, 2025
Question presented
I. Whether a district court clerk violates a pra se litigant’s Sixth and Fifth Amendment rights by intentionally omitting 312 pages of critical evidence from the record, redacting official court stamps on subpoenas, refusing to docket them, and interfering with the submission of 26 “Redress of Grievance” videos on August 29, 2024? II. Whether a federal district court violates the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and Fourteenth Amendments by granting summary judgment based entirely on “police belief’ of a video that no longer exists, where the government lost or destroyed the evidence, and where the clerk prevented the Petitioner from subpoenaing that same evidence? III. Whether state actors violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause by inserting a falsified criminal charge of “disorderly conduct” (Texas Penal Code § 42.01) into a judicial record post-bond to manufacture retroactive probable cause for a warrantless seizure that resulted in catastrophic orthopedic trauma? IV. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 455 requires mandatory recusal of a judicial officer who displays bias by mocking a litigant’s documented physical trauma, resolving all factual disputes in favor of the movant, and disparaging the litigant’s injuries in a civil-rights action?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Edward Lee Gonzales
For respondent
Alex J. Stelly Jr.
Calvert, Eaves, Clarke & Stelly, L.L.P.
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jul 02 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jun 12 2026Waiver of right of respondent Patrick H. McDonald, et al. to respond filed.
- Apr 06 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 22, 2026)