| 25-6766 |
Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause |
Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented as a valid arrest warrant, violates the… |
| 25A696 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Application |
bodyworn-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether the use of force against a handcuffed arrestee during a foot chase constitutes an objectively unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth … |
| 25A293 |
Martin Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
arrest-warrant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial and appellate counsel failed to challenge potentially unc… |
| 23-1241 |
Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice disqualification due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding fifth-amendment prosecution-witness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does it deny a defendant due process of law to disqualify trial counsel based on a purported conflict of interest following the ex parte consideration… |
| 23A881 |
Linda Baldwin v. Robert Pitman, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant |
Whether a federal district court judge's adverse rulings in prior cases constitute a cognizable constitutional violation or impermissible judicial bia… |
| 23A353 |
Bryan Scott Cavett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5772 |
Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure court-records due-process federal-review habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence meaningful-appeal procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in sustaining the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas' hol… |
| 23-359 |
Kelvin Lionell Wright, II v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States District Court, Western District of Texas lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 5:19-CR-321-FB-1 |
| 23A246 |
Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
federal-circuit fifth-circuit judicial-review marbury-v-madison patent-applications subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Federal Circuit or the Fifth Circuit has subject-matter jurisdiction over patent-related disputes involving abandoned but revivable patent… |
| 23A1 |
Jimmy Zavala v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1188 |
Douglas K. Smith v. Eric Terry |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion appellant-brief appellate-procedure bankruptcy circuit-court civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal extension-of-time judicial-discretion procedural-dismissal |
Whether the Circuit Court's March 8, 2023 denial of a second motion for thirty-day extension of time to file appellant brief, and resultant dismissal … |
| 22A293 |
Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5056 |
Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing |
Whether the respondent properly sought publicity when dismissed without a full record, although requested, and whether the respondent's right to discl… |
| 21-7716 |
Paul Douglas Jackson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court-review |
Whether Welhee Jackson is entitled to relief on an evidentiary hearing where the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United S… |
| 21A578 |
Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-7662 |
Jaime Luevano v. Lee Yeakel, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process privacy standing surveillance |
Whether the government's warrantless surveillance of a person's location and movements through their cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protec… |
| 20-699 |
Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a plaintiff has an absolute right to voluntary dismissal under FRCP Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) |