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25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-01-23 Pending criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct "materiality" standard for false and misleading…
25A816 Wilhemena J. Beary, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua J. Johnson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application en-banc fifth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-647 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity 1. Whether a federal appellate court may deem constitutional arguments waived when a pro se appellant, entitled to liberal construction under Haines v…
24-1089 Feanyichi E. Uvukansi v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied burden-of-proof due-process habeas-corpus materiality-standard perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state courts improperly required the petitioner to prove the materiality of perjured testimony and disregarded precedent on prosecutorial …
24-937 Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas Texas 2025-03-03 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-authority Should the United States Supreme Court use its inherent authority to act sua sponte and vacate the prior decisions of the lower courts due to alleged …
24-562 Narjes Modarresi v. Texas Texas 2024-11-20 Denied due-process ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession mental-illness miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly rejected the trial court's recommendation of relief for ineffective assistance of counsel regar…
24-45 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-harm effectual-relief mootness prospective-relief standing Whether legislation enacted during a lawsuit renders asserted claims for prospective relief moot if the legislation does not cure all of the constitut…
23A986 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete fundamental-rights judicial-review legislative-intervention liberty-interest mootness pretrial-detention Whether legislation enacted during ongoing litigation can moot the underlying claims when the legislation does not provide the complete relief origina…
23-1088 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-rights government-liability standing Can public employees of a county jail join as a class to sue their employing county under 42 U.S.C. 1983 to force compliance with state-mandated safet…
23-982 In Re Joshua Marbley 2024-03-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure default-judgment due-process judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct legal-representation motion-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing Why were the plaintiff's affidavits ignored?
23A790 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete cause-of-action certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review procedural-dismissal time-extension Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the Petitioner's case for failure to state a viable cause of action
23A472 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia Whether a defendant's severe mental illness and state habeas counsel's abandonment can constitute cause to excuse procedural default in a capital case…
23A292 Kristin Guardino v. Jim Hart, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
22-933 Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st…
22A707 Jean Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Presumed Complete None
22-528 Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas Texas 2022-12-08 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the 1838rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus
22-486 Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin Texas 2022-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc…
22-363 Candice Hinton, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rodrin Hinton and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children R. H. and C. H. and Next Friend of I. H. and K. H., et al. v. Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference farmer-v-brennan governmental-liability medical-policy policymaker section-1983 Whether the Court's analysis in a 42 U.S. Code § 1983 Civil action for deprivation of rights policy case should be restricted to a finding of delibera…
22-5583 John Doe v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures
22-63 Antoin Deneil Marshal v. Texas Texas 2022-07-22 Denied constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laches prosecutorial-misconduct reconsideration standing Whether the TCCA's application of the equitable doctrine of laches constitutes an independent and adequate state law ground that bars review of petiti…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6424 Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Texas Texas 2021-11-24 Denied due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permit a prosecutor's knowing use of false testimony unless the defendant proves by a preponde…
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued
20-1798 Sylvanus Rene v. Texas Texas 2021-06-25 Denied appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-court-proceeding witness-credibility Does the appellate court's rejection without explanation of a trial court's favorable, dispositive findings of fact based on witness credibility deter…
20-7335 Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Texas state government retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment…
20-563 Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC Texas 2020-10-29 Denied administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su…
20-5360 Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Should newly discovered Brady/Napue evidence be considered by federal courts or returned to state court?
20-156 Kevin Edward Connors v. Texas Texas 2020-08-13 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation cold-record credibility-determinations due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility whether-due-process-prohibits-superior-court-from-rejecting-inferior-court's-fact-findings-based-on-credibility
19-336 Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc…
18-8709 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law common-law-fraud conspiracy-against-rights due-process failure-to-train fourteenth-amendment fraud standing statute-of-frauds Can the United States identify any of nine elements of common and law fraud in this case?
18-7620 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …