| 25-5706 |
John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure false-testimony fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in refusing to certify the Napue claim, when it failed to reach punishment-phase harm and when it conflated the question … |
| 25A202 |
Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Judge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights dismissal-as-frivolous fifth-circuit first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se |
Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can overcome judicial immunity and First Amendment barriers to challenge a state court judge's actions in fede… |
| 25A142 |
Ronnie Coleman v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
age-discrimination employment-discrimination performance-evaluation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether an employer's multiple evaluation attempts and termination of an employee after failed performance assessments constitute unlawful race and ag… |
| 25A66 |
Gregory Montgomery v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1069 |
Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-05 |
Presumed Complete |
ineffective-assistance legal-diligence pro-se-filing supreme-court-procedure time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted when administrative errors and communication c… |
| 24-1089 |
Feanyichi E. Uvukansi v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof due-process habeas-corpus materiality-standard perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state courts improperly required the petitioner to prove the materiality of perjured testimony and disregarded precedent on prosecutorial … |
| 24A975 |
Obel Cruz-Garcia v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A538 |
Anthony Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when a defendant demonstrates ineffective assistance of counsel that potentially prejudiced the outco… |
| 24-5038 |
Larry D. Ford v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
assisted-suicide emtala emtala-rights-1983 federal-rights fnhra medical-rights nursing-home-care nursing-home-reform-act section-1983 social-security-act spending-clause |
Whether the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) gives rise to federal rights under § 1983? |
| 23-1314 |
Jennifer Harris v. FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act contract contractual-limitation court-of-appeals due-process intangible-damages lawsuit-filing maximum-recovery standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether a contractual provision reducing the limitation on filing a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 from four years to six months is enforc… |
| 23A884 |
Joshua Marbley v. Teamster Local 988, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Presumed Complete |
certiorari civil-rights labor-law pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file a petition for writ of certiorari due to financial constraints constitutes grounds for an extraordi… |
| 23-974 |
Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations |
Whether the federal habeas corpus statute of limitations begins to run from the finality of a deferred adjudication order or the finality of the judgm… |
| 23-5771 |
Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Ken Maynard, III, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process failure-to-state-claim frivolous-claims judicial-procedure medical-error medical-malpractice procedural-due-process standing |
Did the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas err in dismissing Plaintiff's Civil Rights violation complaint? |
| 23A176 |
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District v. Jane Roe |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Presumed Complete |
article-iii-standing davis-standard deliberate-indifference school-district-liability student-sexual-harassment title-ix |
Whether a school district may be held liable under Title IX for student-on-student sexual harassment based solely on a school official's alleged indif… |
| 22-7593 |
In Re Edwin W. Rubis |
|
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody habeas-corpus liberty marijuana-prohibition |
whether-rules-14-g-and-h-are-applicable-to-habeas-corpus-petition |
| 22A975 |
Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-866 |
John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel |
Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside… |
| 22-446 |
Cheryl Prince-Moore v. Texas Dow Employees Credit Union |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment employment-termination family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights health-benefits job-protection statutory-violation termination workplace-discrimination |
Whether an employer's immediate termination of an employee's employment without any prior offense or communication violates the Family and Medical Lea… |
| 22-358 |
Ronald Blake Fears v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
double-deference federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-court-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) requires that a federal court apply 'double deference' to a state court's legal conclusion that a habeas petitioner was… |
| 21-6846 |
Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings |
| 21-6032 |
Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-limits district-court due-process federal-procedure federal-rules judicial-precedent jurisdiction prosecutorial-authority standing territorial-court territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court |
| 21-151 |
Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
brady-violation burden-of-proof due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state courts disregarded Supreme Court precedent by requiring the petitioner to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the prosecut… |
| 20-7596 |
Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress |
Did the federal district court err in dismissing the habeas petition without considering the petitioner's motion to amend |
| 19-664 |
Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis |
Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice |
| 19-336 |
Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… |
| 19-155 |
Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… |
| 19A51 |
James Rolling, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-9585 |
Roy Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Dismissed |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings |
Whether the Slables Covell of Hygoees Cntet 4 betan is constitutional |