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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A917 | Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett | Florida | 2026-02-13 | Application | ability-to-pay child-support-enforcement civil-contempt due-process fraudulent-affidavits parental-rights | Whether a trial court may enforce civil contempt sanctions and child support obligations based on fraudulent financial affidavits without providing no… |
| 25-6818 | Vernon Carter v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2026-02-13 | Pending | None | |
| 25-6815 | Steven Trent Ellis v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-13 | Pending | None | |
| 25-6773 | Devern Clemons, III v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-10 | Pending | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 25-6767 | Mario A. Manborde v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | constitutional-law due-process federal-law judicial-review manifest-injustice unreasonable-determination | Is There a Constitutional Cure For Manifest Injustice? |
| 25A903 | Nima Moradi v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-09 | Application | deadly-force ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prejudice-prong self-defense strickland-standard | Whether a criminal defendant can demonstrate prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland when trial counsel fails to object to a ju… |
| 25-6746 | Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2026-02-06 | Denied | eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution pleading-requirements severe-harm | Is a narrowly tailored Eighth Amendment claim based on a State's documented, repeated maladministration of its chosen method of execution subject to t… |
| 25-6741 | Kimberly Cannon v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility probation-violation search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Does evidence obtained during a warrantless search used in a probation violation revocation proceeding and also as a basis for new law violations rend… |
| 25A888 | Patrick Tate Adamiak v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Application | bruen-standard criminal-possession firearm-relics national-firearms-act second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Amendment prohibits criminalizing possession of non-functional, destroyed firearm relics under the National Firearms Act without co… |
| 25A883 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-05 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time no-objection petition-for-certiorari supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when the petitioner has multiple pending cases a… |
| 25A878 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Federico I. Lopez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari despite its general disfavor of multiple extensi… |
| 25-6721 | Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-defect | Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues based on an affidavit lacking objective facts, and… |
| 25A868 | Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Application | certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal court may deny a certificate of appealability when a petitioner seeks to challenge a district court's denial of post-conviction reli… |
| 25A863 | Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Florida | 2026-02-02 | Application | appellate-review certification final-judgment judicial-procedure opinion-withdrawal state-court | Whether a state appellate court's withdrawal and supersession of a prior opinion constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court review |
| 25A862 | Clark MacKendrick v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Application | certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process | Whether a federal court may deny a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus proceeding without providing a detailed explanation of its reasonin… |
| 25A849 | Michael Prime v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Application | appellate-review cryptocurrency-seizure federal-jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider property-forfeiture rule-41g | Whether federal courts have proper jurisdiction to review and potentially remand seized cryptocurrency under Rule 41(g) when a criminal defendant chal… |
| 25-883 | James Thomas Ford v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-23 | Pending | due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution | Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends criminal charge… |
| 25-6657 | Dale B. Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2026-01-23 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6647 | Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review | Whether reasonable jurists could debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably intertwined initial 28 U.S.C. § 2254 dockets and failur… |
| 25-880 | In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. | 2026-01-22 | Pending | civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus | Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court to vacate a fraudulent foreclosure judgment issued without trial and… | |
| 25A836 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | 11th-circuit petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari despite its general disfavor of multiple time ex… |
| 25A833 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Andres Garcia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | court-procedure extension-of-time judicial-discretion litigation-process petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's repeated requests for extensions of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari constitute an abuse of discretion or un… |
| 25A832 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Reynaldo Poveda, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when the petitioner has multiple pending cases a… |
| 25A831 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when the petitioner has multiple pending cases a… |
| 25A828 | Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-21 | Application | due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct serial-killer | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a new trial when a defendant presents newly discovered evidence suggesting potential prosecutorial misconduct … |
| 25-6623 | Hamed Kian v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-20 | Pending | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner was deprived of his right to a 12-person jury trial for a serious felony under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 25A824 | Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Application | circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 | Whether a federal court can review a collateral challenge to a restitution order under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 when the defendant is no longer in custody |
| 25-6608 | Dennis Christensen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6607 | Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-16 | Pending | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner was deprived of his right to a 12-person jury trial for a serious felony under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 25-6593 | Jason Jones v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-15 | Pending | criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment immunities-clause incarceration-costs | Whether the Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must restrict government from imposing costs of incarceration and criminal fines that are gr… |
| 25-6577 | Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-14 | Pending | constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Did the State trial court err in its reading of Logan and in denying a 3.800(a) motion alleging a sentencing error and manifest injustice? |
| 25-6581 | Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Dea… |
| 25-6579 | Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause | Whether an accused's rights under the Takings Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment are offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies a… |
| 25-6578 | David Joseph Northrup v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-14 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6559 | Charles Kafeiti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-delay procedural-rules | Whether a district court's 13-month unexplained silence on liberty-related motions constitutes court-induced prejudice warranting equitable tolling un… |
| 25-6571 | Maxo Casseus v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-13 | Pending | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 25-828 | The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage supremacy-clause work-program | Whether the Supremacy Clause allows a state to reclassify federal immigration detainees participating in a federal work program as employees and there… |
| 25A815 | Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Application | 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment property-rights state-remedies | Whether a property owner asserting a federal procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must first exhaust available state court remedies bef… |
| 25-6551 | Esteban Burgos v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-12 | Pending | circuit-court constitutional-procedure district-court judicial-administration speedy-trial-rule supreme-court-order | May a district court of appeals and circuit court disregard mandatory rules of judicial administration associated with a Supreme Court order? |
| 25-6515 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Marcus Bach Armas, Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami Dade County, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-appeal procedural-fairness | Did the lower court wrongly dismiss Petitioner's appeal due to indigency and deprive the Petitioner of constitutional due process rights? |
| 25-6482 | Arianne Alexys Myles v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-06 | Pending | constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath rule-of-lenity | Whether a life sentence without a definite release date violates the Florida Constitution's prohibition on 'indefinite imprisonment' |
| 25-6495 | Jason Elysse v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-06 | Pending | appellate-review constitutional-claim discretionary-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment | Whether a State Appellate Court violates a Defendant's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when affirming a trial Court's denial of a reques… |
| 25A766 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-02 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time litigation petition pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the unique circumsta… |
| 25-6467 | Roberto Morales Diaz v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-02 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A755 | Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Application | appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion | Whether a federal appellate court can deny a motion to seal judicial records without providing a substantive explanation for its denial |
| 25-6444 | Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-12-30 | Pending | collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure | Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes re-litigation of factual determinations resolved in prior proceedi… |
| 25A753 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith | Florida | 2025-12-30 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when the petitioner has multiple pending cases a… |
| 25-750 | Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC | Louisiana | 2025-12-23 | Pending | causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort | Whether under the Jones Act's relaxed causation standard, a plaintiff must meet Daubert requirements for scientific causation in toxic tort claims |
| 25-6422 | Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation | Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800 constitutionally valid and enacted in accordance with Florida Constitutional mandates? |
| 25-6419 | Tonnie Nealy v. Donald Sawyer, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | civil-commitment constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference institutional-liability prisoner-safety professional-judgment | QP: Whether the 11th Circuit failed to comply with Farmer v. Brennan in assessing deliberate indifference when defendants knew of a serious risk of ha… |
| 25-720 | Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's refusal to apply Kemp v. United States creates an irreconcilable Circuit Split regarding judicial error under Rule 60(b… |
| 25-6405 | Jerel D. Kent v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial | Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c) by finding the district court rea… |
| 25-6382 | Frank A. Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Denied | constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment federal-review lethal-injection method-of-execution undue-delay | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying review of a death row inmate's method-of-execution challenge based solely on undue delay, despite newly … |
| 25-6357 | Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-12-15 | Denied | atkins-rule constitutional-protection death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability procedural-bar | Whether Florida's partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denies intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and whether procedu… |
| 25-6362 | Dan Ioan Belc v. Florida | Florida | 2025-12-15 | Denied | confrontation-rights due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion | Whether the cumulative prosecutorial misconduct and trial court errors fundamentally undermined the petitioner's right to a fair trial |
| 25-694 | Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Pending | judicial-immunity just-compensation permitting-monopoly property-rights res-judicata takings-clause | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion citing res judicata allows the government to overextend and leverage its permitting monopoly to take private pr… |
| 25-6363 | Arturo Amaran v. Florida | Florida | 2025-12-15 | Pending | constitutional-law fifth-amendment judicial-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether Florida courts can expand or invent exceptions to Supreme Court 5th Amendment jurisprudence and modify statutory language beyond legislative i… |
| 25-692 | Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. | Florida | 2025-12-12 | Pending | due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline | Whether a state may impose professional discipline on attorneys for out-of-court criticism of a judge without clear and convincing proof of false stat… |
| 25-6338 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Pending | appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-standing | Did the lower court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal by preventing access to the Court due to indigency and denying constitutional Due Process … |
| 25A678 | Thurmond McDonald v. Florida | Florida | 2025-12-09 | Application | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine a defendant's status as a habitual felony offender under Florida law |
| 25A671 | Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Application | death-penalty docket-consolidation eleventh-circuit federal-habeas ineffective-assistance pro-se | Whether the procedural complexities of maintaining separate pro se and counseled federal habeas dockets can constitute ineffective assistance of couns… |
| 25-657 | Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Pending | appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power | Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner's appeal, constituted such a substantial departure from th… |
| 25-656 | In Re Rayon Payne | 2025-12-05 | Denied | due-process immigration-law judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default supervisory-authority | Whether the Supreme Court should exercise supervisory authority to resolve a jurisdictional conflict between federal courts and address potential due … | |
| 25-6288 | Christopher John Derting v. Florida | Florida | 2025-12-04 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-offender-statute preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment | Whether Florida Statute 775.084 violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by allowing a judge to determine 'certain circumstances' under a preponderance… |
| 25A648 | Veltor Underground, LLC v. Kelly Loeffler, Administrator, Small Business Administration, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Application | academic-commitments certiorari-extension legal-practice professional-obligations supreme-court-clinic time-extension | Whether a law school Supreme Court clinic and its director can be granted an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on academic and… |
| 25-6279 | Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida | Florida | 2025-12-03 | Denied | capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment | Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr… |
| 25A635 | Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | equitable-tolling extraordinary-relief federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mental-health suicide-attempt | Whether a federal prisoner's suicide attempt and subsequent mental health challenges constitute grounds for equitable tolling or extraordinary relief … |
| 25-624 | Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard | Whether a mixed question of law and fact under Strickland v. Washington is reviewed for clear error or de novo, and whether an appellate court can rel… |
| 25-6256 | Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. | Florida | 2025-11-26 | Pending | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause | Does a Florida court's failure to apply 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) tolling to dismissed claims, and the excessive use of per curiam affirmances, constitute a… |
| 25-6236 | Jesse Alan Walker v. William D. Snyder, Sheriff, Martin County, Florida | Florida | 2025-11-25 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pretrial-proceedings sixth-amendment | Does the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment provide a guaranteed right to representation for pretrial petitioners in habeas corpus proceedin… |
| 25-6215 | Christopher Takhvar v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-24 | Dismissed | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6191 | Duane E. Adams v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Denied | charging-document constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court | Whether Adams' constitutional right to due process was violated when the trial court conducted a trial and entered a judgment without subject matter j… |
| 25-6196 | Jason W. Attride v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-21 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6200 | Daman Thomas Caldwell v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-21 | Denied | constitutional-violations false-police-report fifth-amendment first-amendment per-curiam-affirmance sixth-amendment | Whether the conviction of Petitioner, obtained under a per curiam affirmance without opinion and supported by a false police report, violates the Firs… |
| 25A604 | Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | financial-hardship indigency petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court time-extension | Whether an indigent prisoner seeking Supreme Court review may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on finan… |
| 25A597 | Christopher Fonte v. Memorial Hospital of Laramie County, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Application | access-to-justice disability-barriers due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice-requirements | Whether federal courts must apply equitable tolling principles when state notice statutes create procedural barriers for litigants with documented dis… |
| 25M41 | Jermaine Smith v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Pending | None | |
| 25-6155 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct stare-decisis | Whether established laws protect against indefinite suppression of public records showing fraudulent prosecutions and constitutional rights violations |
| 25-6133 | Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-11-17 | Denied | clemency constitutional-law due-process federal-rights post-conviction supremacy-clause | Whether Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of post-conviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of appl… |
| 25-580 | Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Pending | appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence | Whether a court must consider only trial evidence when determining the prejudicial effect of a constitutional error or if post-verdict evidence can be… |
| 25A579 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Application | certiorari judicial-procedure page-limits pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant may seek an extraordinary extension of page limits for a certiorari petition beyond the standard rules of Supreme Court proc… |
| 25A562 | Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | first-amendment free-speech pickering-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a public employer violates the First Amendment by terminating an employee for expressing political views on social media while off-duty |
| 25-6114 | Lawrence Allen Davis v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6115 | Anton Lazzaro v. LGM Consulting Group, Inc. | Florida | 2025-11-14 | Denied | constitutional-rights contract-law damages first-amendment fundraising political-speech | Does Florida's authorization of expectancy damages for political fundraising consultants violate the First Amendment? |
| 25-6099 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment judicial-discretion public-records rights-violations | Whether established public records rights should be revisited to address fraudulent evidence concealment and potential rights violations in criminal p… |
| 25A559 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Application | bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions | Whether federal courts may impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith when dismissing a pro se prisoner's civil ri… |
| 25A543 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Ken Burke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pinellas County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access judicial-procedure pleading-requirements procedural-rules | Whether a state court's procedural rules can impose heightened pleading requirements that potentially infringe on a petitioner's constitutional right … |
| 25A544 | Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment | Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme … |
| 25A545 | Harvey Birdman, et al. v. United States Tax Court | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment | Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme … |
| 25-6069 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-10 | Denied | access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense | Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal by preventing him from defending himself and depriving him of access to the Cour… |
| 25-6060 | Katherine Henry, et vir v. City of Ormond Beach, Florida | Florida | 2025-11-07 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection excessive-fines local-law-compliance malum-prohibitum | Whether a class of one Equal Protection claim requires combining three distinct offenses for defining similarly situated parties, and whether a homeow… |
| 25-6061 | Bryan Fredrick Jennings v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-11-07 | Denied | death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-access postconviction-counsel state-representation | When the plain meaning of a statute or rule guarantees continuous state postconviction counsel to a capitally sentenced defendant, but fails to provid… |
| 25A537 | Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vera Cooper, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | controlled-substances dangerous-persons firearm-possession historical-tradition medical-marijuana second-amendment | Whether a federal statute prohibiting unlawful users of controlled substances from possessing firearms violates the Second Amendment when applied to m… |
| 25A527 | Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Application | criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a federal district court has proper subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case when the defendant challenges the court's statutory au… |
| 25A521 | Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | criminal-appeal criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal sentencing guidelines or constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Kirby's criminal conviction |
| 25-6021 | Danny Raymond Morgan v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-04 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6025 | Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A511 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Marcus Bach Armas, Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami Dade County, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | case-volume civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-review petition-dismissal pro-se-litigant | Whether a federal court of appeals systematically and improperly dismisses a litigant's civil rights or constitutional claims without substantive revi… |
| 25A513 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights judicial-system legal-standing petition-review | Whether a federal court can review the systematic denial of multiple civil rights claims by a lower appellate court when a litigant demonstrates a pat… |
| 25-6013 | Kimberly Lee Kessler v. Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Denied | conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus kangaroo-court prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering | Question not identified. |
| 25-6014 | Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida | Florida | 2025-11-03 | Dismissed | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-6002 | Linaker Charlemagne v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-31 | Denied | constitutional-claims discretionary-jurisdiction evidentiary-conflicts legal-requirements newly-discovered-evidence record-of-appeal | Whether the District Court departed from essential legal requirements by not allowing the Record of Appeal to be supplemented, not curing evidentiary … |
| 25-525 | Damion Anthony Delapena v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining | Does federal habeas petitioner make a 'substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right' under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) where his trial attor… |
| 25A484 | Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | circuit-split federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Whether the use of internet-based interstate communication instrumentalities alone is sufficient to satisfy the 'in or affecting interstate commerce' … |
| 25A487 | Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | constitutional-delay criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require dismissal of criminal charges due to an excessive pre-trial delay violating the constitutional right to… |
| 25-516 | Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Pending | aedpa-deference brady-violation constitutional-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether AEDPA deference is unconstitutional under Loper Bright and whether a defendant must discredit evidence admitted due to constitutional errors t… |
| 25A477 | Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Application | death-penalty future-dangerousness genetic-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether defense counsel's introduction of genetic predisposition evidence constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment when… |
| 25A479 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-27 | Application | appellate-procedure eleventh-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari given multiple pending cases and no opposition from resp… |
| 25-5949 | Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-10-24 | Denied | constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance | Whether the Oklahoma courts' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual innoce… |
| 25A473 | Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Application | estate-administration federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation probate-jurisdiction procedural-challenge removal-statute | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state probate court's estate administration ruling can be removed to federal court under 28 U.S… |
| 25-502 | Christina Paylan v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-23 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure florida-law nolle-prosequi sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Does the State of Florida violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to speedy trial by commencing a prosecution following a nolle prosequi and refili… |
| 25A463 | David Quarles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | border-search cellphone-search electronic-device fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | Whether a warrantless border search of a cellphone at a port of entry violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and sei… |
| 25A464 | The GEO Group, Inc., a Florida Corporation v. Ugochukwu Nwauzor, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | federal-contractors federal-preemption immigration-detention intergovernmental-immunity minimum-wage voluntary-work-program | Whether a state law requiring federal contractors to pay state minimum wage to federal detainees in a voluntary work program violates intergovernmenta… |
| 25A465 | Christopher Wuchter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | circuit-conflict constitutional-question controlled-substances criminal-justice firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment permits individuals who are unlawful users of controlled substances to possess firearms |
| 25A459 | Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Application | fifth-amendment judicial-taking just-compensation permitting-authority property-rights takings-clause | Whether a state court's judicial decree constitutes a taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause when the government leverages its permitting a… |
| 25-5920 | Donald Otis Williams v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-21 | Denied | aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge death-penalty first-degree-murder legislative-expansion proportionality-review | Whether the Florida Legislature's expansion of 'aggravating factors' and the Florida Supreme Court's elimination of proportionality review has rendere… |
| 25-5923 | Timothy W. Fletcher v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-21 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5926 | Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-representation separation-of-powers | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's summary denial of a stay of execution conflicts with Supreme Court precedents requiring reasoned balancing of factors i… |
| 25A451 | Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | constitutional-violation due-process execution-date executive-power judicial-function separation-of-powers | Whether the separation of powers and due process are violated when a state executive officer, who also holds exclusive clemency power, is authorized t… |
| 25A442 | Palanikumar V. Gnanam, et al. v. Nathaniel Chibuzor Keita, et al. | Florida | 2025-10-20 | Application | automatic-stay bankruptcy certiorari jurisdiction state-court void-judgment | Whether a bankruptcy filing and automatic stay can retroactively invalidate prior state court judgments and proceedings |
| 25-473 | Angela W. DeBose v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Pending | civil-procedure court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules judicial-discretion responsive-pleading | Whether a federal district court's refusal to enter a clerk's default and default judgment against a defendant who has failed to file a responsive ple… |
| 25-478 | Christin Bilotti v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A437 | Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. | Florida | 2025-10-16 | Presumed Complete | artis-tolling certiorari-extension federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction | Whether the Supreme Court should apply the tolling provision under 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) to preserve state law claims dismissed due to statute of limita… |
| 25-5880 | Derrick Gregory James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentence-modification | Whether a change in a criminal sentence years after initial imposition constitutes a double jeopardy or due process violation |
| 25-5886 | Kevin Scott v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-15 | Denied | 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legal-uniformity state-court | Does a State Court that refuses to uniformly apply its own laws and rules to similarly situated state prisoners violate the Due Process and Equal Prot… |
| 25-5887 | Dorice Moore v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-15 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence | Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by withholding exculpatory DNA evidence and denying discovery of potentially innocen… |
| 25-5889 | Angel E. Gaston v. City of Leesburg, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5895 | Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether an 11-person federal criminal jury verdict can be considered harmless error under the Sixth Amendment, contrary to historical jury practice |
| 25A412 | Jamaur Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-preparation petition-filing professional-obligations supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on counsel's professional obligations an… |
| 25-5843 | Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2025-10-09 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus trial-procedure | Whether a prisoner's habeas petition challenging his conviction can proceed when he was denied access to potentially exculpatory evidence during his o… |
| 25-5829 | Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-08 | Denied | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment elderly-defendant standards-of-decency | Does the execution of the elderly violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment ba… |
| 25A406 | Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-08 | Denied | constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-stay meaningful-hearing | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional questions remain unresolved and the defenda… |
| 25A407 | Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice | Whether an appellate court's de novo review of a trial court's Strickland prejudice determination can disregard the trial court's express factual find… |
| 25-5815 | Wilclin Saintil v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-07 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the state court violated the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments in denying the accused his due process right to present a witness in supp… |
| 25A401 | Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Application | constitutional-rights first-amendment government-office public-officials qualified-immunity recording-rights | Whether the First Amendment protects the right to record public officials in a government office without prior permission and whether qualified immuni… |
| 25A394 | Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Presumed Complete | dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence | Whether a federal court may assess the harmlessness of a Giglio error by considering post-trial DNA evidence not presented to the original jury, rathe… |
| 25-386 | Vonn Capel, et al. v. Pasco County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | ad-valorem-taxation comity constitutional-injury federal-review property-rights tax-injunction-act | Whether the Tax Injunction Act and comity foreclose federal review of the regulatory scheme, when no 'plain, speedy, efficient remedy exists' to prote… |
| 25-5774 | Jason Adam Jensen v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-01 | Denied | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis mental-illness pro-se-litigant | Does the in forma pauperis dismissal process under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) (ii) deprive pro se litigants with mental illness of due process and proc… |
| 25-377 | North American Credit Services, Inc. v. Abdul Crawford | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | bona-fide-error consumer-debt debt-collection fdcpa medical-debt workers-compensation | Whether the FDCPA requires third party debt collectors to conduct an independent preemptive investigation to review for all potential defects or chall… |
| 25A372 | Derrel L. Thomas v. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., et al. | Florida | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction discretionary-review district-court-appeal florida-supreme-court judicial-review summary-dismissal | Whether a district court of appeal's summary dismissal without an elaborated opinion precludes discretionary review by the Florida Supreme Court |
| 25-371 | Clark's Barber Lounge, LLC, et al. v. Destin Health and Fitness, LLC | Florida | 2025-09-29 | Denied | attorney-representation conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics per-curiam | Whether a conflict of interest exists for an attorney who gave advice to one client and then represented another client on the same matter, and whethe… |
| 25-5753 | Eddie Scott v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Rehearing | anti-injunction-statute federal-rule-60b habeas-corpus mandate-rule section-1983 younger-doctrine | Whether a federal judge can keep a case closed after a plaintiff's state trial acquittal and deny relief under Federal Rule 60(B) despite the Younger … |
| 25-5745 | Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-09-27 | Denied | capital-sentencing constitutional-rules due-process mitigating-evidence postconviction-litigation supremacy-clause | Whether Florida has violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a postconviction litigation system that provides no avenue for asserting retroactive… |
| 25-5733 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Jesus Valdivia, Police Officer, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Dismissed | access-to-court appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection | Did the Appellate Court wrongly dismiss the appeal due to orders preventing effective litigation, and did the Southern District of Florida and Elevent… |
| 25-5738 | Mark H. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2025-09-25 | Denied | appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error | Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence… |
| 25-5723 | Matthew A. Tobin v. Florida | Florida | 2025-09-24 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-339 | Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 | Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing without explanat… |
| 25-5687 | Curtis Gorham v. Michael Alan Jenkins, et al. | Florida | 2025-09-19 | Denied | civil-rights healthcare-liability judicial-procedure medical-malpractice mental-illness pro-se-litigation | Whether a mentally ill pro se litigant's repeated medical malpractice and civil rights claims against multiple healthcare providers and institutions c… |
| 25A308 | Ynddy Blanc v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review circuit-court conviction-standard criminal-trial jury-deadlock mistrial | Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied legal standards in affirming a criminal conviction following a second trial after a prior mistrial |
| 25-304 | Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fair-trial judicial-misconduct state-trial-court | Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claim that he was denied his cons… |
| 25A294 | Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy-to-commit criminal-conspiracy racketeering rico-conspiracy specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a nonspecific RICO conspiracy without specific intent to commit the target crime can constitute a substantive criminal offense |
| 25-5604 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | civil-prisoner-litigation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-immunity section-1983 stare-decisis | Is the deprivation of due process rights in state criminal litigation exempt from the civil prisoner litigation clause 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) in 42 U.S.C… |
| 25-5605 | David Joseph Pittman v. Florida | Florida | 2025-09-11 | Denied | capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto retroactive-effect | Does the Florida Supreme Court's disparate application of Hall v. Florida to capital defendants create an unequal death penalty system violating the E… |
| 25A277 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition court-rules fraud-on-court motion-for-leave page-limit pleading-requirements | Whether the lower court improperly applied procedural rules that prevented a full and fair review of the petitioner's substantive claims involving fra… |
| 25-278 | Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Suwannee River Water Management District | Florida | 2025-09-10 | Denied | administrative-law due-process eminent-domain government-overreach property-rights takings-clause | Whether the government violated the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause by leveraging a permitting monopoly to foreclose on private property |
| 25A278 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act eleventh-circuit felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement | Whether a prior felony conviction qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act for purposes of imposing an enhanced sentence |
| 25-5585 | Arseles D. Miller v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | constitutional-amendment court-of-appeals habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations | Whether a 2254 application is second or successive if it challenges a new judgment for purpose of §2244(b); Whether a new judgment, resulting from res… |
| 25-5575 | Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review state-prisoner | Whether the Courts of Appeal may dismiss an appeal by a state prisoner on habeas review when a circuit judge votes to grant a certificate of appealabi… |
| 25-259 | January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Pending | circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy | When a plaintiff alleges that the application of a state policy infringed a fundamental right 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition,' … |
| 25A263 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention | Whether a state court's dismissal of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the Heck doctrine improperly prevents an actually innocent … |
| 25-5536 | Floyd Madison v. Florida | Florida | 2025-09-03 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A254 | Michael Broomer v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Presumed Complete | antiterrorism-act federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness | Whether a federal habeas petition filed by a state prisoner is timely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's statute of limitations |
| 25-241 | Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-29 | Denied | evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether the trial court's summary denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims without an evidentiary hearing violates constitution… |
| 25A244 | Tremon Staley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision on remand from the Supreme Court improperly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the pet… |
| 25A248 | Judy Christian Percival v. Kelley Zimmerman, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | court-jurisdiction digital-filing due-process equitable-tolling procedural-fairness technical-error | Whether procedural technicalities and digital filing complications can constitute a due process violation warranting equitable tolling in federal cour… |
| 25-5476 | Leigh Valorie Ford v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-27 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath life-sentence rule-of-lenity | Whether a life sentence without a definite release date violates Florida's constitutional prohibition on 'indefinite imprisonment' |
| 25-5484 | Corey Blaine Coggins v. Eric Cox, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | actual-innocence brady-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance joint-defense-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct | Did Coggins' Public Defender's joint defense agreement without his knowledge constitute ineffective assistance of counsel, potentially leaving him wit… |
| 25A230 | Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-08-27 | Presumed Complete | eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction | Whether a state court's denial of a successive postconviction motion violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights under the Sixth, Eighth, an… |
| 25A224 | Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | brady-disclosure dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Brady v. Maryland disclosure requirements are properly evaluated under the de… |
| 25-5459 | Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-08-25 | Denied | confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability | Does Kentucky's postconviction procedure for determining intellectual disability violate Woodall's Fourteenth Amendment right to confront witnesses an… |
| 25-5426 | Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by denying Appellant's appeal without addressing the state trial court's violation of Appellant's Sixth Amendment c… |
| 25-218 | Brian Smith v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-22 | Denied | appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent | Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take precedence over case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988, and what remedy exists when an ap… |
| 25-5432 | Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5440 | Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-08-22 | Denied | constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment litigation-schedule public-conscience sixth-amendment | Whether the 'evolving standards of decency' test should be applied to Sixth Amendment right to counsel protections and whether Florida's post-warrant … |
| 25-5445 | Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes a court's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and barred from 2254 Habeas Corpus review for failure to… |
| 25-5454 | Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-22 | Denied | constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court | Whether the trial court violated the United States Constitution by deviating from Florida's standard jury instruction on death by unlawful distributio… |
| 25A205 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-limitation electronic-trading insider-trading sixth-amendment stock-exchange venue | Whether the Sixth Amendment's venue provision requires venue for insider trading prosecutions to be determined by the location of the actual electroni… |
| 25A193 | Richard E. Warner, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Joseph Ardolino, II, et al. v. City of Marathon, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Presumed Complete | fifth-amendment property-rights ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings-clause williamson-county | Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment permits a plaintiff to pursue a property rights claim after the Supreme Court's modification of the … |
| 25-5379 | Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-17 | Denied | discrimination-standard habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss section-1983-challenge statistical-evidence supreme-court-precedent | Whether the standard of proof for statistical evidence of discrimination conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and whether such evidence can support … |
| 25-188 | JFXD TRX ACQ LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. trx.com, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | anticybersquatting-consumer-protection-act bad-faith-registration circuit-split domain-name-registration intellectual-property-law trademark-protection | Whether registration of a domain name for purposes of the ACPA includes re-registrations, or if it is instead limited to the initial registration |
| 25-5368 | Shonteria Story v. Grady C. Judd, Sheriff, Polk County, Florida | Florida | 2025-08-14 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5370 | Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-08-14 | Denied | constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty ineffective-assistance neuropsychological-evidence sentencing-procedure | Whether a state can execute a defendant without considering compelling neuropsychological evidence and despite potential constitutional violations in … |
| 25A185 | Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2025-08-14 | Denied | capital-punishment constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when the state supreme court has denied constitutional protections that saf… |
| 25-5341 | Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent | Does the revised sentence violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 25A176 | James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion de-novo-review judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-petition standard-of-review | Whether a judge's recusal decision should be reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard or de novo review when reviewing potential judicial bias |
| 25-166 | Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure jury-size jury-trial-right nonunanimous-jury sixth-amendment | Whether the Court should overrule Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970) |
| 25-5315 | Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Denied | aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus | Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.… |
| 25-147 | Michael J. Polelle v. Cord Byrd, Florida Secretary of State, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | closed-primary election-law equal-protection first-amendment political-association voting-rights | Does the Florida closed-primary system violate a voter's First Amendment and Equal Protection rights to political free speech and association? |
| 25-5300 | In Re Onofre Serrano | 2025-08-07 | Denied | brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression ninth-circuit probable-cause | Whether the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily concluded that Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right, and whethe… | |
| 25A166 | Jason Elysse v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-07 | Presumed Complete | continuance-motion criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to counsel is violated when a trial court denies a last-minute motion to substitute private counse… |
| 25-5294 | Maria Navarro Martin v. Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Dismissed | appellate-review circuit-court due-process jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-judgment procedural-error | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied procedural due process by considering issues beyond the scope of appeal and failing to provide pr… |
| 25-5269 | Michael D. Miller v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-05 | Denied | court-of-appeals due-process habitual-offender legal-violation sentencing statutory-interpretation | Did the Fiesk Digkeict Court of Appeals Violate Ane Petisioner's tight Yo due process of Vaw by Imposing a habitual oe Sentence in violation of& speci… |
| 25-5279 | Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-08-05 | Denied | constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits consecutive term-of-years sentences that guarantee a juvenile nonhomicide offender will die in prison |
| 25A148 | Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest | Whether a police officer's warrantless arrest based on probable cause arising from a good faith belief that property was stolen constitutes a valid Fo… |
| 25-5264 | Craig Alan Sandhaus v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-04 | Denied | fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction nondeadly-force sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when his trial attorneys failed to request a jury instruction on the just… |
| 25-5265 | Jessica M. Graulau Maldonado v. Orange County Public Library System | Florida | 2025-08-04 | Denied | due-process fourteenth-amendment material-facts negligence-tort summary-judgment witness-credibility | Whether the trial court's application of federal summary judgment standard violates due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by improperly de… |
| 25-5244 | Kristy Richard v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se-litigant | Question not identified. |
| 25-5218 | Michael Anthony LoRusso v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-5214 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-28 | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty federal-precedent intellectual-disability liberty-interest state-procedure | May a lower court deprive a death-sentenced prisoner his liberty interest to access a state-created procedure designed to correct injustice by refusin… |
| 25A118 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-28 | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability when their IQ scores and diagnostic evidence demons… |