| 25-5714 |
Abass Yaya Bamba v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion |
1. Whether a federal court may constitutionally dismiss a civil rights complaint solely for inability to pay filing fees, in violation of 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 25A127 |
Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit |
Whether a law enforcement agency's policies and practices can constitute deliberate indifference in a civil rights claim alleging inadequate mental he… |
| 23A293 |
Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-10-04 |
Presumed Complete |
ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-organizations secular-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction watson-v-jones |
Whether the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention under the First Amendment operates to deprive secular courts of subject-matter jurisdiction over dis… |
| 23A162 |
Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1142 |
Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the trial court err in holding the Prosecution did not have possession of the 'it was placed' note ultimately produced by the FBI? |
| 22-1091 |
David Zook v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
4th-amendment administrative-subpoena civil-procedure due-process epa federal-agency official-curiosity reasonable-suspicion rule-6a |
Must the issuance and/or enforcement of an administrative subpoena (EPA) to a private individual be supported by something beyond 'official curiosity'… |
| 22-6405 |
David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings |
Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous |
| 21-8223 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should a 28 USC 2241 HC be filed in State of incarceration or State of conviction for a State prisoner serving sentence in another State under Inter-s… |
| 21-6094 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Lewis T. Babcock, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process frcp-12(c) motion-to-dismiss standing |
Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying the plaintiff's motion under FRCP 12(c)? |
| 20-1815 |
Dale J. Richardson v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus immigration-court judicial-suspension obstruction-of-justice torture torture-prevention |
Is it constitutional to leave a person in the custody of someone they alleged torture against? |
| 20-1782 |
Regina Therese Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint section-1983 |
Whether the First Amendment permits the issuance of a civil protection order to (i) punish a 'pattern' of conduct where such conduct includes only pro… |
| 20-492 |
Charles D. Gonzalez, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
adequate-representation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadequate-representation intra-class-conflict release rule-23 settlement settlement-approval |
Whether the district court and the court of appeals improperly applied obsolete standards for approval of settlement class actions under prior caselaw… |
| 20-469 |
Ivo Lindauer, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
ancillary-jurisdiction civil-procedure comity concurrent-jurisdiction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-court-intervention judicial-comity kokkonen-v-guardian-life settlement-enforcement state-court-jurisdiction younger-abstention |
Whether the state court's jurisdiction is exclusive and ancillary under Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, thereby precluding the exercise… |
| 20-5922 |
Julia Hook v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 19-8153 |
Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Dismissed |
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses |
Will conditions of confinement that demonstrate a pattern of misconduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments leading to suicidal impulses or urge… |
| 19-7401 |
Dumisai H. Hockaday v. Helene Christner, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
administrative-regulations civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process medical-care prison-conditions standing summary-judgment |
Whether the underlying activity of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is ethical or not |
| 19-7136 |
Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Ms. McClaflin's motion to dismiss the indictment on the b… |
| 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… |
| 25A240 |
Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
due-process faretta-hearing ineffective-assistance pro-se self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the defendant's request to proceed pro se without a … |