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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 1. Is a narrowly tailored Eighth Amendment claim based on a State's documented, repeated maladministration of its chosen method of execution subject t…
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 The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p…
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 1. Has Florida's partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denied intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and should procedura…
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 that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a …
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 fro…
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 1. Should the unsettled issue in Heck v. Humphrey and Spencer v. Kenma^where this court has not definitively ruled that criminal defendants may use a …
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 1. Whether Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of post-conviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of a…
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…
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 1. Should the established, freestanding public records rights be revisited for settling the states conflicting, questionable lawful authority to frau…
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 …
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 Mr. Jennings was deprived of counsel for three years before his death warrant was signed. On the day his death warrant was signed, the State requested…
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…
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…
25-5889 Angel E. Gaston v. City of Leesburg, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied None Question not identified.
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…
25-5745 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-09-27 Denied capital-sentencing constitutional-rules due-process mitigating-evidence postconviction-litigation supremacy-clause 1. Has Florida violated the Supremacy Clause by constructing a system of postconviction litigation that provides no avenue for the assertion of retroa…
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 1. Is the deprivation of due process rights, in underlying state criminal litigation, exempt from the civil prisoner litigation clause 28 U.S.C. § 191…
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…
25-259 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 Whether a public school "violates parents' fundamental constitutional right " when it secretly helps "transition " their child to a new "gender " is "…
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 …
25-5440 Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-08-22 Denied constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment litigation-schedule public-conscience sixth-amendment 1. Whether the "evolving standards of decency" test, which has been recognized for Eighth Amendment protections, should be used to analyze other const…
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 …
25-5370 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 After a questionable conviction, Kayle Bates has twice been sentenced to death. His first death sentence was reversed on collateral review for ineffec…
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…
24-7517 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. City of Miami, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-26 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-1983 Whether the 11th Circuit and Southern District of Florida erred in dismissing Petitioner's complaint against the City of Miami and violating Petitione…
24A1269 James Uthmeier, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. Florida Immigrant Coalition, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete None
24-7387 Anthony Wainwright v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied capital-litigation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-bono-counsel Whether a State violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by preventing capital litigants from accessing state habeas process with pro bon…
24-7202 Iris L. Anderson v. City of Jasper, Florida, et al. Florida 2025-05-14 Denied anti-murder-act constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court state-action statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Supreme Court's interpretation of the Anti-Murder Act of 1815 violates constitutional protections against unlawful state action an…
24A1082 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process filing-fees judicial-review pro-se procedural-rules Whether a pro se litigant's failure to pay filing fees and comply with procedural rules constitutes an unconstitutional deprivation of access to court…
24-7087 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-04-29 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness Whether due process requires more than the arbitrary truncation of pending substantive review by an unnoticed death warrant signed midway through acti…
24-6162 Gregory A. Tolliver v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c)?
24-5946 James B. Crosby v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied due-process federal-proceedings heck-bar injunction supremacy-clause younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention can be ignored when federal proceedings began before state proceedings and an injunction should be granted to prevent arres…
24-5858 Robert J. Smith, Jr. v. Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied None Question not identified.
24-5796 Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether a petitioner lacks standing to sue a Sheriff's Office for alleged First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations and whether a conspiracy to…
24-5583 Carlos Sanchez v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied §2254-petition circuit-split conflict-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus speedy-trial Whether conflict counsel's motion for continuance violates a criminal defendant's right to a speedy trial and whether the Eleventh Circuit's standard …
24-285 Robert M. Rogers v. Jackson County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 county-commissioner due-process equal-protection kirkland-v-state official-misconduct Does the 1923 Florida Supreme Court embezzlement Case of Kirkland v State excuse Jackson County's acquiescence to County Commissioner Peacock to creat…
23-1342 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied 14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c…
23-7764 Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2024-06-20 Denied bad-acts ballistics-evidence capital-case criminal-evidence criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance other-crimes-evidence postconviction-review prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Strickland standard should be applied in favor of the defendant in a case with no direct evidence connecting the defendant to the crime ex…
23-7765 Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2024-06-20 Denied capital-punishment cumulative-error death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Counsel's-failure-to-object-to-trial-court's-comments-during-jury-selection
23A1023 Marques A. Johnson v. Chris Nocco, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment identification law-enforcement passenger-rights qualified-immunity traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a vehicle for refusing to identify themselves when no reasonable suspicion of criminal…
23A992 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge county-commission equal-protection redistricting representation voting-rights Whether a county board of commissioners' voting procedures and redistricting decisions violate constitutional protections of equal representation and …
23-869 Tyler Land v. Donald L. Edenfield, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-arrest fourth-amendment intentional-misstatements law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-misstatements search-and-seizure warrant When is evidence of mere presence in a car with an alleged drug dealer sufficient for probable cause to arrest the driver?
23-6383 Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-12-28 Denied atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane Whether Hall's holding that the 3-pronged test for assessing intellectual disability must be informed by prevailing medical practice and standards ann…
23-6208 Pleadro J. Scott v. Miami Dade County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied advocacy appellate-process appellate-review case-law civil-procedure court-procedure discretion due-process incomplete-record judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-construction Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to exercise its discretion to consider additional advocacy from a party, where the judgment was based on…
23-6101 Kevin E. Chace v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied appeals constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standards-of-review trial-counsel WHETHER PETITIONER SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO CERTIORARI REVIEW BASED ON MULTIPLE ERRORS OF TRIAL COUNSEL THAT OCCURRED WHILE LITIGATING PETTIONER'S CASE
23A436 Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the imposition of a death sentence that fails to comply with evolving standards of decen…
23A409 Jeffery Wooden v. Town of Eatonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Presumed Complete counsel deadline financial-hardship pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a criminal defendant's financial hardship constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari
23-5888 Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Dismissed administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of Florida's medical marijuana…
23A332 Charles J. Lawn, Jr. v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5667 Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied capital-defendant capital-punishment clemency clemency-proceedings due-process executive-discretion meaningful-access notice notice-requirements procedural-fairness unenforceable-rules Whether the right to minimal Due Process required in clemency proceedings is satisfied
23A276 Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process executive-clemency fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-disability Whether the Due Process Clause requires that death-sentenced individuals have meaningful access to executive clemency proceedings that afford an oppor…
23-5646 Abraham Kennedy Jah El v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied aboriginal-rights article-13 citizenship-status civil-rights congressional-petition constitutional-rights due-process human-rights police-brutality racial-profiling standing Whether a Moors American National has a constitutional protection against racial profiling, police brutality, and assault under the legal Declaration …
23A213 Stan J. Caterbone v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-09-06 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-107 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether a person is 'in custody' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if that person remains subject for the rest of his life to a state-law sex-off…
22-1145 David Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-detention overdetention search-and-seizure warrant-validity Does Baker's right against overdetention require a reasonable analysis or only protect against mistaken overdetention for longer than three days?
22-7412 Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-29 Denied clemency clemency-process criminal-justice due-process harbison-v-bell herrera-v-collins judicial-review mercy-standard parole-authority standing Whether a standardless clemency process satisfies the Court's mandate in Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard
22A949 Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-29 Denied None
22A893 David Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-12 Presumed Complete None
22-6819 Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-02-20 Denied atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure Whether a state court's refusal to consider a defendant's claim that he is exempt from execution under Atkins v. Virginia due to Neurobehavioral Disor…
22-696 Reginald L. Gundy v. City of Jacksonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise free-speech government-speech qualified-immunity retaliation Whether Petitioner's invited invocation before the City Council was private speech or government speech
22-650 Orlando Bar Group, LLC, et al. v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Florida 2023-01-13 Denied due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation property-rights public-nuisance state-of-emergency takings During a state of emergency, are there constitutional safeguards that prohibit the government from denying property owners substantially all economica…
22-6044 Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied 1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi…
22-393 NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied compelled-speech content-based content-based-restrictions editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech tech-regulation viewpoint-discrimination zauderer Whether S.B. 7072 in its entirety, and its compelled disclosure provisions in particular, comply with the First Amendment
22-5840 Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights
22-277 Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Judgment Issued censorship content-moderation first-amendment free-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-law state-regulation third-party-communications time-place-manner Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the time…
22-5443 Robert L. Davis v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied burglary-conviction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure DNA-database due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus retroactive-laws standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 'imminent danger' of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) apply to the time suit was filed or during any later review of the case
22A131 Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. Netchoice, LLC, dba Netchoice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-15 Presumed Complete None
22-5145 Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 189 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 54 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a civil…
21-7610 Terry Smith v. Florida, et al. Florida 2022-04-14 Denied autopsy autopsy-testimony confrontation-clause due-process evidence forensic-evidence hearsay medical-examiner sixth-amendment testimony Does Florida's practice of allowing a medical examiner to testify to an autopsy he/she did not perform violate the Confrontation Clause?
21-7392 Jeffery Neil Brantley v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process federal-habeas-corpus financial-records habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review state-constitutional-rights supremacy-clause Does the Supremacy Clause preempt the states from creating a constitutional right of privacy that grants individuals a legitimate expectation of priva…
21-7365 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether the State of Florida's laws that criminalize consensual sex between adults and minors while shielding certain adults from the same or worse ac…
21-1242 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent Should the Supreme Court require the Eleventh Circuit to follow Supreme Court precedent and resolve challenges to Article III standing before resolvin…
21A478 Terry Smith v. Florida, et al. Florida 2022-03-08 Presumed Complete None
21A424 Jeffrey Neil Brantley v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Presumed Complete None
21-6291 Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia…
21A152 Mark Allen Geralds v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-15 Presumed Complete None
21-600 Wade Steven Gardner, et al. v. William Mutz, in His Capacity as Mayor of the City of Lakeland, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech legacy-monuments legal-doctrine monument-display public-forum public-forums summum summum-precedent Should the government speech doctrine as recognized in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum be modified in cases involving legacy monuments already in …
21-6031 William Greg Thomas v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance When a court-appointed CJA counsel sacrificed a petitioner's federal habeas review by intentionally filing an untimely petition, does due-process allo…
21-5538 Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether the trial Judge fulfilled his duty of determining whether there was an intelligent and competent waiver of accused's right to assistance of co…
21-200 Willie Frank Walker v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied 14th-amendment accardi-doctrine civil-procedure due-process foreign-state jurisdictional-challenge personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction transient-foreigner Lack of subject-matter and personal jurisdiction
21-5218 Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default Whether the petitioner was denied the same review of the game law that was applied to a similarly situated defendant by the state district court of ap…
21-95 David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Florida 2021-07-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui…
20-1543 Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated?
20-7920 Edward Shane West-El v. City of Miami Gardens, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-hearing legal-standing procedural-fairness right-to-travel standing Why was the Petitioner denied the Right to Travel and had to pay a fine?
20-7431 Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or herself pro se, should no issues concer…
20-1025 Juan Francisco Vega v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution florida-rules-of-court florida-statutes involuntary-commitment jury jury-verdict mental-abnormality Whether the jury's verdict must be reinstated based on the United States Constitution, Florida Constitution, Florida Statutes, and Florida Rules of Co…
20-994 Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. v. The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system…
20-881 Huong L. Tran, et al. v. City of Holmes Beach, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection finality-requirement section-1983 shotgun-pleading Whether strict shotgun pleading rules are permissible to dispose of complaints and deprive litigants equal access to federal courts
20-791 Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied access-act civil-remedies civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act off-reservation-conduct religious-worship tribal-sovereign-immunity Is a Native American tribe sovereignly immune from a civil suit for damages caused by the off-reservation violations by its police officers of the 'pl…
20-6561 Jesus N. Rodriguez v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court due-process incorporated-grounds judicial-discretion pleading-defect procedural-error rule-violation standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority Whether the district court invited error resulting in a fundamental pleading defect
20-596 Leroy E. Scott v. City of St. Petersburg, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-11-04 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection home-rule-powers municipal-abatement racial-discrimination seventh-amendment special-assessment-liens standing summary-judgment Is the PER CURIAM Affirm opinion a pretext for discrimination?
20-6207 Steven Cooper v. Bay County, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-11-03 Denied adverse-possession constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review mandamus property-rights statutory-interpretation takings trespass vagueness Whether the Florida Statute for Adverse Possession without Color of Title section 95.18 is unconstitutionally vague
20-6105 Gabriel Oliver v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings voting-rights Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
20-502 Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review Whether the Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than Huddleston v. U.S. under Rules 403 and 404(b) in civil polic…
20-5968 Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-10-08 Dismissed access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Florida denied petitioner access to the court pursuant Article 1, Section 21 of the Florida Constitution when it declined…
20A51 James Nelson v. Florida, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-22 Presumed Complete None
20-5566 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2020-09-02 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-counsel relief-denial standing state-court-procedure Can the systematic deprivation of counsel be used as the primary reason to deny post-conviction relief?
20-5550 Robert Kelvin Lindbloom v. Manatee County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights false-evidence legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss perjury qualified-immunity standing Do specific and particular allegations of perjury and submitting false evidence overcome a presumption of qualified immunity in a Motion to Dismiss?
19A1071 Bonnie Raysor, et al. v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Presumed Complete None
19-8895 Dario M. Rodriguez v. Alan Lawson, Justice, Supreme Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-03 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts indigent-appeal pro-se procedural-restrictions standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the Younger abstention doctrine, and the cou…
19-1304 Indian River County, Florida, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-05-20 Denied administrative-deference federal-assistance qualified-highway-or-surface-freight-transfer-faci skidmore-deference statutory-interpretation surface-transportation tax-exempt-bonds title-23 transportation-project Whether the court of appeals properly deferred to the agency's informal views under Skidmore, without finding the statute ambiguous or applying (much …
19A1031 Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Presumed Complete None
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief Whether a state-created delay of uninformed notification that a second amended (corrected sentencing) judgment of conviction had become final and ripe…
19A995 Indian River County, Florida, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-09 Presumed Complete None
19-7861 Sean P. Reilly v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus in-custody in-custody-requirement lackawanna-county-v-cross schlup-v-delo witness-tampering Whether the 'actual innocence' gateway to federal habeas review allows a federal habeas petitioner to overcome the 'in custody' requirement
19-7546 Juan Jorge v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied circuit-court civil-rights coa constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus precedent standing supreme-court Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-928 Kenneth Fernandez Johnson, Jr. v. Sadie Darnell, Sheriff, Alachua County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-statute due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause Whether the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated due to false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution under 42…
19-6903 Alvin R. Barney, II v. Escambia County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure failure-to-prosecute final-judgment judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal premature-appeal sanction sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit had the authority or subject matter jurisdiction to dismiss a premature notice of appeal as a sanction for failure to pro…
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings Whether Petitioner was denied 'Fundamental Fairness' in the State Court Proceedings?
19-5651 Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied 18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th…
19A203 Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Presumed Complete None
19-5617 Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-08-16 Denied death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled?
19A183 Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-08-16 Presumed Complete None
19M38 Mark C. Jackson v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-08-09 Presumed Complete None
18-9766 Raymond Tyrone Lewis v. William O. Farmer, Sheriff, Sumter County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit essential-requirements-of-law motion-for-reconsideration standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal abused its discretion and deviated from the essential requirements of law
18-9771 Dennis William Robinson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression fair-trial iada-violation jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial suppression-of-evidence Did State Court violate Petitioner's constitutional rights?
18-9488 Nasedra K. Lumpkin v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-court procedural-default standing Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process clause requires a hearing before dismissal of a civil complaint for failure to prosecute
18-9065 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision strickland-v-washington Whether petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is governed by the applicable test of Strickland v. Washington
18-8875 George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied aedpa-time civil-rights civil-rights-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pipeline-analysis postconviction-relief retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 'pipeline' analysis should be expanded to new law that applies to postconviction claims where the resolution of the postconviction claim w…
18-8462 William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewed objectively in light of the entire record before the jury was sufficiently material to provide the …
18-8188 Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution Whether the plea agreement affirmed by the lower tribunal judgment violated the contract and due process clauses of the United States Constitution
18A834 John William Campbell v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-02-15 Presumed Complete None
18-7409 Stephen Daniel Leonard v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing takings Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioners' Fourteenth Amendment rights by refusing to vacate all orders after Ms. Leonard's amended complaint
18-7343 Alberic Israel, on Behalf of Minor Children A. I. and E. I. v. City of North Miami, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing takings Where Manifest Injustice Has Occurred in Courts is Wrongly Construing Applicable Statutes of Limitations on Timely Submissions of Previous Motions Den…
18A711 George E. Brown v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Presumed Complete None
18-760 Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards Whether the Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim should be evaluated under an objective or subjective standard
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-12-07 Denied capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv…
18A542 Stacey McDavid v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Presumed Complete None
18A324 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-09-27 Presumed Complete None
18-351 City of Pensacola, Florida, et al. v. Amanda Kondrat'yev, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 GVR constitutional-law endorsement establishment-clause first-amendment historical-pedigree lemon-test passive-display passive-religious-display religious-display standing town-of-greece Whether plaintiffs have standing to sue under the Establishment Clause when their only alleged injury consists of the feelings of offense' produced by…
18A268 Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Presumed Complete None
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law
18-5778 Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him were violated
18-5641 Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-08-17 Denied 8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking relief…
18-5017 Glenn Lee Selden v. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Dismissed civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-contract constitutional-provisions criminal-forfeiture due-process false-name-registration government-authority legal-counsel military-appeal national-security standing takings Whether the court will enforce a commercial contract when the United States is under nuclear assault and the public is in grave danger
22A757 Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. Florida Presumed Complete None
24A1044 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied None
24A1211 Anthony Wainwright v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied None
25A216 Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-counsel death-penalty evolving-standards ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires retroactive application of evolving standards of counsel qualifications in capital cases to determine the effecti…
25A356 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when a state court disregards clearly established Supreme…
25A532 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-counsel Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing a death-sentenced prisoner after systemic failures in postconviction coun…
25A577 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm mental-competency method-of-execution Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional questions regarding the method of execution…
25A693 Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Question not identified.
25A892 Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied cruel-and-unusual drug-administration eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution protocol-violation Question not identified.