| 25-857 |
Joshua Yarbrough, et al. v. SlashSupport, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
circumstantial-evidence civil-rights employment-discrimination judicial-doctrine stray-remarks summary-judgment |
Whether discriminatory remarks categorized as stray under a judicial doctrine may be excluded from the mix of circumstantial evidence of discriminatio… |
| 25-663 |
Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-servitude trial-by-jury unconstitutional-avoidance |
IL CONSTITUTIONAL RIPENESS
Whether the Supreme Court, in this age of
equality, should consider gender-based servitude ripe for correction.
II. UNCONS… |
| 25A578 |
Edgal Iribhogbe v. C. Lepe, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
case-or-controversy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-dismissal mootness pretrial-detention section-2241 |
Whether a federal prisoner's appeal of a § 2241 petition challenging pretrial detention becomes moot upon conviction and sentencing |
| 25-6085 |
Marlon Rando Lee v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
None |
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| 24A639 |
Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
bivens-action due-process federal-database firearms-rights mental-health-designation second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause protect an individual's right to purchase firearms and enlist in the military when erroneously des… |
| 24-6058 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
adaptive-behavior atkins-standard clinical-assessment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing |
Did the state court violate Atkins v. Virginia by improperly assessing intellectual disability through a single IQ score and incomplete adaptive behav… |
| 24A403 |
Oscar Silva Perez, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-stay asylum enforcement homeland-security immigration migrants |
Whether the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement policies violate statutory or constitutional protections for migrants and asylum… |
| 24-5182 |
Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure mandamus petition standing supreme-court |
Question not identified |
| 23A1117 |
Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus mandamus section-2254 sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief when state and federal courts allegedly failed to address the merits of a potentially merito… |
| 23A857 |
Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Presumed Complete |
appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly dismissed a pro se prisoner's appeal for want of prosecution without providing adequate notice o… |
| 23-972 |
Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling |
Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause |
| 23A500 |
Michael W. Bohannan v. Erica Redic, Texas Department of Justice-CID Law Library Supervisor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights court-sanctions in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's failure to strictly comply with Prison Litigation Reform Act procedural requirements warrants dismissal of a civil rights … |
| 23A258 |
Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process-clause fifth-amendment long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction registered-agent service-of-process |
Whether a federal district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant corporation where service of process was atte… |
| 22-7023 |
Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing |
Should my writ of certiorari be granted when my appointed attorney failed to file a timely notice of appeal? |
| 21-1558 |
John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing |
Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-1614 |
John D. Leontaritis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof |
Whether jury findings impact sentencing |
| 19-882 |
Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective |
| 18-8966 |
Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the denial of a pro se litigant's right to access the courts through vexatious litigant laws and rulings violates the petitioner's constitutio… |
| 18A787 |
Eric Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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