| 25A877 |
Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6690 |
Sabrina D. Davis v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
civil-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct legal-review rule-60b4 void-judgment |
DOES THE JUDICIAL IMMUNITY DOCTRINE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO PERMIT MALICIOUS AND CORRUPT JUDICIAL RULINGS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS ERRORS OF LAW OR MISAPPLICA… |
| 25A603 |
Gabriel L'Ambiance Ingram v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
certiorari extension-of-time lower-courts pro-se title-iii wiretap |
Whether a pro se petitioner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when related motions to unseal Title III wiretap materials a… |
| 25A243 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata |
Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance… |
| 24A1270 |
Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling |
| 24A923 |
Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal |
Whether a pro se prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging constitutional violations can survive sua sponte dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A wit… |
| 24-579 |
Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
ethics-commission expert-affidavit fifth-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-due-process |
Must a district court judge recuse himself when an expert affidavit challenges his impartiality after reporting a criminal defendant's attorney to an … |
| 24A280 |
Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-proceeding district-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus |
Whether a federal district court judge's refusal to recuse themselves from a criminal proceeding violates a defendant's due process rights or constitu… |
| 23-6596 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Dismissed |
board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it refused to apply the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to Kenneth Roshaun Qedens |
| 23A433 |
Nelson L. Bruce v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
district-court-order federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal rule-59-motion timely-filing |
Whether a district court's denial of a Rule 59(e) motion can be appealed after the 30-day jurisdictional deadline for filing a notice of appeal has el… |
| 23A392 |
Brenda Dawson Battle v. Atty Creel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal judicial-immunity pro-se section-1983 |
Whether a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against multiple judicial and law enforcement officials can survive dismissal when alleging potenti… |
| 23A166 |
Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-hearing-procedures home-and-community-based-services medicaid-act section-1983 |
Whether Section 1983 provides a private right of action to enforce substantive due process rights and statutory entitlements under the Medicaid Act, a… |
| 21-7273 |
Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
appellate-review double-jeopardy false-imprisonment federal-question lack-of-jurisdiction supreme-court-decisions trial-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Did the United Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of thi… |
| 21A212 |
Terron Dizzley v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 21-5343 |
Jimmie Washington, aka Jim Washington v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure cheney-standard cheney-test civil-procedure immediate-relief injunction injunctive-relief judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition stay writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a court of appeals failure to grant a first and second amended petition for writ of mandamus conflicts with this court and other court of appe… |
| 19-7172 |
Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina violated the judicial code of ethics when they refused to recognize a Cong… |
| 18-9139 |
Calvin Lyndale Gaddy v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process standing unpublished-opinions |
Was the petitioner's original complaint properly dismissed as frivolous and without issuance and service of process? |
| 18-6968 |
Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether the defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to file a notice of appeal |
| 18-6110 |
Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M… |
| 18-5452 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
issue being raised |