Access to the courts
Feldman v. Linda Steinhoff Holmes
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Daniel J. Feldman sued Linda Steinhoff Holmes in California state court.
- What's at stake
- Whether Feldman can obtain review of his claim that he was denied access to court remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Feldman says state procedures left him no meaningful chance to fix filing problems before the courts barred review of his claim that he was denied access to court; he filed a Supreme Court petition asking whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits that result.
The record lists an earlier property-possession case between Feldman and Holmes that settled in 2020.
Question presented
Whether the Fourteenth. Amendment permits a State to foreclose review of a court-access claim through procedural defects that its own filing, notice, and corrective processes denied the litigant a meaningful opportunity to cure.
What happens next
The Court's next step is to decide whether to hear the case; no argument or decision date is set.
Documents
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Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.