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23-7041 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may …
23-7042 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Can the State under Atkins v. Virginia execute a person who is intellectually disabled by all clinical standards?
23A855 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte Whether a federal court may sua sponte raise a procedural affirmative defense to deny preliminary injunctive relief without considering the movant's l…
23A856 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrat…
23-31 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is inconsistent with the statutory text and in direct conflict with this Cour…
22A992 Willie James Pye v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-15 Presumed Complete None