| 25-5430 |
Ravon Lovowe Ramsey v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony jury-trial medical-malpractice |
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| 24-1316 |
Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Ninth Circuit applied an overly stringent standard in assessing the district court's disposition of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24A897 |
Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-5124 |
Lawrence Christopher Smith v. Ralph Diaz, former Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-issue petition pleading standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 22-1045 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
12(b)(6) civil-procedure dismissal due-process pleading-standards pleadings prisoner-rights rule-12 section-1983 standing |
Does Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 12 permit a defendant to file successive, pre-answer Rule 12(b)(6) motion(s) to dismiss—each towards a sepa… |
| 22-911 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
California |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-regulation agency-discretion chevron-deference civil-rights due-process judicial-review ministerial-duty prisoner-rights property-rights statutory-authority |
Did the California corrections agency exceed the bounds of its statutory authority? |
| 22A656 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
California |
2023-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6574 |
Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling |
Can a void ruling legally be challenged at any time and in any court? |
| 22-5045 |
Shaheed Scott, Sr., aka Rodney L. Scott v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights confinement-challenge due-process early-release habeas-corpus parole parole-hearing procedural-defect |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court properly deny habeas petition |
| 21-7282 |
Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa |
Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice? |
| 21-727 |
Robert R. Snyder v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
access-to-courts active-interference civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process law-library-access plausibility-standard prisoner-rights procedural-due-process prospective-relief standing |
Did the lower court incorrectly apply Christopher-v-Harbury |
| 21-5950 |
James Henry Abel v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection intervention standing |
Whether the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to intervene violated the petitioner's due process rights |
| 21A37 |
Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-7780 |
James Plas Sams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-violation content-based-regulation expressive-association first-amendment free-speech group-grievance retaliation |
Did California's actions violate the right of expressive-association and constitute content-based-discrimination? |
| 20-6642 |
Kevin W. Dunigan v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Dismissed |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sovereign-immunity standing takings |
Should all of plaintiff's civil and punitive compensations be attributed to Kevin Wayne Phillips vs. Jehovah, Yahweh Christ? |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 19-7272 |
Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness |
Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial |
| 18-7729 |
Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights |
Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr… |
| 18-7289 |
Peter D. Bommerito v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
14th-amendment administrative-policy ballot-initiatives civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-policy state-legislation |
Should the people in the state of California be constitutionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment in the presence of increasingly severe crimi… |
| 18-171 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 |
Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said … |
| 18-5379 |
Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel |
Whether the reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived the appellant of due process and a fair trial |