| 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 … |