| 25A563 |
Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs |
Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition… |
| 23-259 |
Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm, or instead must pro… |
| 22-12 |
D. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-welfare due-process parental-rights state-intervention |
Whether the termination of a natural mother's parental rights based on her refusal to confess to allegations when the state bears the burden of proof … |
| 20-905 |
Independent School District No. 283 v. E. M. D. H. ex rel. L. H. and S. D. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
administrative-complaint administrative-procedure continuing-violation-doctrine education-law federal-circuit-split individuals-with-disabilities-education-act negative-consequences statutory-time-limit |
Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the two-year statutory time limit to file an administrative complaint under the Individuals with … |