| 25A895 |
Charles Kakembo Sessanga v. City of DeSoto Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
civil-rights criminal-prosecution malicious-prosecution pro-se-plaintiff probable-cause section-1983 |
Question not identified.
The provided text is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for a Writ of Certiorari and includes the Fifth C… |
| 25A874 |
Huong Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-immunity retaliatory-arrest |
1. Whether absolute judicial and prosecutorial immunity applies when municipal officials act without jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory… |
| 25A375 |
Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
bankruptcy-appeal federal-rules jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se time-bar |
Whether a pro se litigant's untimely notice of appeal from a bankruptcy court order can be excused or tolled due to unique procedural circumstances |
| 25A373 |
Rochelle L. Smith v. General Motors, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-review employment-discrimination medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation workplace-injury |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations for an employee with medical work restrictions f… |
| 25A305 |
Ernest Edward Gaines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief |
Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief based on alleged due process violations during post-conviction DNA testing when the testing … |
| 24-7504 |
Daniel Ray Garcia v. Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk, District Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A906 |
Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se |
Whether a pro se litigant's appeal of a magistrate judge's report and recommendation can be considered jurisdictionally valid when the underlying orde… |
| 24-368 |
Levi Rudder v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
article-v constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review separation-of-powers unenumerated-powers |
Whether the federal government's exercise of unenumerated powers violates Article V of the U.S. Constitution and infringes upon individual rights thro… |
| 24A259 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
federal-grants fiscal-recovery spending-clause state-sovereignty statutory-conditions tax-policy |
Whether the Spending Clause permits Congress to impose conditions on federal grants that restrict a state's ability to modify its tax policy through a… |
| 23-7349 |
Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer |
whether-mandamus-relief-is-available |
| 23A695 |
John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Presumed Complete |
appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension want-of-prosecution |
Whether a pro se litigant's appeal can be dismissed for want of prosecution when the notice of dismissal was not received until 54 days after the dism… |
| 23A635 |
Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Presumed Complete |
impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire |
Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when a juror with a potential familial connection to a witness i… |
| 23-5564 |
Trent Steven Griffin, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jury-trial motion-to-dismiss procedural-misconduct standing |
Whether a judge had the power or authority to take certain actions in a civil rights case |
| 22A968 |
Trent Steven Griffin, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1331 |
Marcus A. Murphy v. Amanda Cameron Dalton, aka Mandy Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-discretion due-process energy-company pro-se-plaintiff sanctions tort-law |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the plaintiff's claims and imposing sanctions |
| 21-273 |
Buck Gene Brune v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing |
When does jeopardy attach after a guilty plea? |
| 21-5226 |
Faryion Edward Wardrip v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-factual-determinations |
Whether Faryion Wardrip's trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington |
| 20-262 |
Bridget Alex, et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
certification civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation tort-claims-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion by refusing to certify the case to the Texas Supreme Court |
| 19-7698 |
Martin Calderon-Ortalejo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure extensive-scope extensive-scope-planning fifth-circuit-review judicial-abuse-of-discretion offense-level-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-discretion substantial-interference substantial-interference-with-justice total-offense-level |
Did the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division, abuse its discretion in sentencing? |
| 19-7321 |
Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process government-misconduct governmental-misconduct informed-consent mandamus mandamus-action medical-experimentation medical-information-withholding standing |
Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the evidence in this case and recognize and acknowledge that the respondent, the United States of … |
| 19-7247 |
Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal prisoner's challenge to his conviction or sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255 is 'inadequate or ineffective' - and thus the prisoner may … |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-6004 |
Lynn Taylor v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion affidavit civil-procedure court-procedure discovery discovery-violation due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion standing |
Did the Northern District Court abuse its discretion in not forwarding the full discovery to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals? |
| 19A206 |
Lynn Taylor v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-7450 |
Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 |
Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal |