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Iva Robbins v. United States Postal Service, et al.

IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 25-5229 · judgment February 17, 2026


Pending

Questions presented

  1. Whether a District Court inflicts an ongoing structural and constitutional harm upon the Petitioner under Article Ill and the separation of powers doctrine by docketing Petitioner 's ministerial filling for a clerk-entered default judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 55(b)(1) as a judicial motion, thereby assuming judicial authority over these submissions and stripping the petitioner of the mandatory substantive protection by the Rule.

  2. Whether the Court of Appeals compounds this structural judicial governance breakdown by adjudicating Petitioner's appeal based on existing record — formally disputed, thereby adopting the District Court's characterization of a "motion" and proceeding on issues not presented by the Petitioner.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Iva Robbins

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 08 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2026.
  2. Oct 05 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
  3. May 18 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 5, 2026)