| 25-6338 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Pending |
appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-standing |
Did the lower court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a … |
| 25A513 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights judicial-system legal-standing petition-review |
Whether a federal court can review the systematic denial of multiple civil rights claims by a lower appellate court when a litigant demonstrates a pat… |
| 25A473 |
Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
estate-administration federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation probate-jurisdiction procedural-challenge removal-statute |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state probate court's estate administration ruling can be removed to federal court under 28 U.S… |
| 24A365 |
Patrick Comack v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
academic-conflict bias disability-claim judicial-recusal mandamus social-security |
Whether a federal district court judge's prior academic affiliation creates a legally cognizable basis for mandatory judicial recusal in a social secu… |
| 23A660 |
Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 |
Whether a federal habeas petitioner can obtain a certificate of appealability after failing to make a substantial showing of a constitutional right's … |
| 23A483 |
Salvador Magluta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement |
Whether a federal court may consider non-medical factors, such as prolonged solitary confinement and its psychological effects, when evaluating a moti… |
| 23-564 |
Timothy Bing, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer pretrial-investigation pretrial-motions sixth-amendment state-attorney |
Whether a policy by the State Attorney's Office which punished the petitioner for engaging in a pretrial investigation of his case as well as filing p… |
| 23A332 |
Charles J. Lawn, Jr. v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 22-903 |
Jay Goodley v. Charles M. Greene |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-capacity judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-recusal recusal separation-of-powers |
Whether a judge can change the law while presiding over a case they were recused from |
| 22-870 |
Eliezer Taveras v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
civil-procedure claim-splitting district-court due-process federal-courts forum-shopping improper-claim-splitting mandamus removal removal-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court's decision to dismiss with prejudice an action improperly removed from state court is clear and manifest error that should be… |
| 22-5658 |
William L. Whipple v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
appeal appeal-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-access judicial-review mandamus ministerial-duty standing |
Can mandamus be deemed as a substitute for appeal when litigant was denied equal access to court and deprived of his due process right to reserve issu… |
| 22A155 |
William L. Whipple v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-351 |
Courtney Wild v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
alexander-v-sandoval crime-victims-rights-act enforcement federal-criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement non-prosecution-agreement pre-indictment prosecutorial-discretion rights-creating-language victim-rights |
Whether the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) allows crime victims to bring a suit to enforce their right to confer with prosecutors before the Governm… |
| 18-8527 |
Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Whether the courts applied the correct standard of review in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability |