| 25-662 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 |
This section 1983 civil rights case arises from the devastating consequences of medical and investigative errors in a child protection proceeding. Aft… |
| 25M37 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 25A251 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure legal-filing summary-judgment supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a summary judgment record exceeding 3,800 pages warrants an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 21-1286 |
In Re W. A. Griffin |
|
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty health-plan mandamus pre-emption preemption |
Whether the anti-assignment provision in the health benefit plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD |
| 21-5638 |
Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241 on the question of factual and actual innocence depa… |
| 20-7652 |
Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining the appropriateness of a habeas corpus petition |
| 19-1365 |
Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether an individual serving a wrongfully enhanced sentence is barred from obtaining relief solely because the wrongfulness of the sentence was estab… |
| 19A1020 |
Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-542 |
Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California |
California |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant |
How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged to have occurred, eve… |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief |
| 19-5471 |
J. A. M. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel |
Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during inte… |
| 18-7966 |
Desmond Smith v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights drug-offense generic-federal-offense generic-offense sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-law-definition state-statute |
Whether the ACCA's definition of a 'serious drug offense' imposes a sentence enhancement or make an exception when a state's definition of 'delivery a… |
| 18-7498 |
Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition |
| 18-6984 |
Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner was entitled to file an application for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 and/or 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) in light of McFadden v. U.S. |
| 18-309 |
Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
GVR |
bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S… |
| 18-5927 |
J. A. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-09-10 |
Denied |
attenuation coolidge-v-new-hampshire fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-entry lustig-v-united-states probable-cause reasonable-foreseeability search-and-seizure state-action |
Did a search involve state action under the Fourth Amendment where police officers entered a home illegally, an officer there told an inquiring civili… |