| 25-6517 |
Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation |
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199… |
| 25A613 |
Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Application |
appellate-litigation-clinic certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel jurisdictional-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a court-appointed counsel from an appellate litigation clinic may be granted an extension of time to file a certiorari petition due to personn… |
| 23-7041 |
Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte |
Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may … |
| 23A855 |
Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte |
Whether a federal court may sua sponte raise a procedural affirmative defense to deny preliminary injunctive relief without considering the movant's l… |
| 23-664 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights constitutional-safeguards correspondence correspondence-interception due-process email prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires notice and opportunity to be heard when a prisoner's outgoing emails are intercepted |
| 23A376 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires prison officials to provide notice and an opportunity to challenge the censorship … |
| 21-439 |
Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Judgment Issued |
alternative-execution civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus lethal-injection method-of-execution ripeness section-1983 successive-petition |
Whether an inmate's as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a § 1983 action if the inmate plea… |
| 20-1734 |
Waseem Daker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees intervention joinder prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing |
Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires each prisoner filing a lawsuit to pay a separate filing fee |
| 20-6681 |
Robert Wright v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement prison-grievance prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigation procedural-default standing |
Was Wright required to exhaust state remedies under the PLRA? |
| 19-573 |
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense |
Did the Eleventh Circuit improperly determine that the Prosecution's pattern of deliberate and egregious improper comments in closing arguments did no… |