11th-circuit

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A883 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2026-02-05 Application 11th-circuit extension-of-time no-objection petition-for-certiorari supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A878 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Federico I. Lopez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Application 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A836 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Application 11th-circuit petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A832 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Reynaldo Poveda, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Application 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A831 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Application 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A753 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida 2025-12-30 Application 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5860 Elliot Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure due-process federal-rules fifth-amendment rule-60 Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in limiting Rule 60(d)(3) relief to civil matters and potentially violating due process rights
24-149 Kai Hansjurgens v. Donald Bailey Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied 11th-circuit bankruptcy-procedure due-process erie-doctrine federal-common-law state-law Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals improperly interpreted state law, federal bankruptcy rules, and Erie doctrine principles in its decision
23-7255 Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine Whether Horace forfeited his argument in the District Court's error in granting MD Now's motion to dismiss without considering medical records and exp…
22-1184 Robert Walker, et al. v. Barry S. Mittelberg, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied 11th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-rules civil-procedure due-process judicial-estoppel property-disclosure standing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals exercised its discretion in err
22-7564 Victor Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial Can a 11th Circuit Court sua sponte deny a defendant's or petitioner's constitutional right to a public speedy trial
22-5490 Nicholas Wukoson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clisby-v-jones davis-v-us federal-civil-procedure judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review remand Whether the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit departed from its accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5481 Helen Ferguson v. Gettel Management Group Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process settlement standing Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated and whether the petitioner is entitled to a settlement payout based on the supporting documents fi…
21-7582 Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny…
21-7411 Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the certificate of appealability pursuant to Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S.Ct. 159…
21-624 Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit circuit-court commissioner direct-tax frivolous income-tax internal-revenue supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax taxable-income May the Commissioner of Internal Revenue collect a uniform direct tax on Petitioner's taxable income?
20-8118 Joshua Broughton v. Florida Florida 2021-05-25 Denied IFP 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus standing Whether the petitioner should have been granted an evidentiary hearing in the Eleventh Circuit Court?
20-1402 Stephen Hammonds v. Robert Theakston, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied 11th-circuit 8th-amendment appellate-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 When the unconstitutionality of an officials' conduct is reasonably obvious, does that suffice to render the violation of those constitutional rights …
20-7636 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice false-information false-testimony government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate procedural-default Whether and to the extent the criminal justice system tolerates false testimony and false information relied upon by the United States Court of Appeal…
20-7294 James Peter Sabatino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's appeal as moot
20-7185 John Anthony Esposito v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied IFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 capital-case habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit should be allowed to flout the Supreme Court's clear instruction in Wilson v. Sellers that federal courts must focus on t…
20-6573 Ellis Keyes v. Matt Wilson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP 11th-circuit civil-rights deadly-force due-process judicial-intervention municipal-liability order-to-show-cause police-restraint police-use-of-force qualified-immunity standing Whether the 11th Circuit erred in denying the motion for order to show cause why defendant police should not be restrained from using deadly force
20-338 Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the district court have subject matter jurisdiction over this case?
20-278 Marguerite Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction mandate-issuance standing Does the 11th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due…
19-7908 Larry Rashone Prunty v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err when applying the two prong Slack v. McDaniel test (procedure and merits) in deter…
19-7553 Gerald Humbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens…
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state reco…
19-5548 Andre Thomas v. William Woods, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process federal-detainer liberty-interest probation-bail Whether the federal detainer deprived the petitioner of his liberty interest in posting a set probation bail on January 22, 2008
18-8911 Gerald Humbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith Whether a Florida drug offense qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the ACCA without mens rea
18-8458 Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di…
18-8103 Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to …
18-8086 Steven Thomason v. OneWest Bank, FSB, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-act-fha loan-servicer mandamus mortgage-loan-modification mortgage-modification real-estate-transaction right-of-action standing Whether a Mortgage Loan Modification from a plaintiff's loan servicer is sufficiently related to the meaning of 'real estate-related transaction' unde…
18-7587 Biven Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability
18-7440 Christopher Whitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing Should the appeals court have appointed an attorney who did not have a conflict of interest?
18-7260 In Re Vernon Shawn Daniels, Jr. 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 4th-circuit actual-innocence due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit has effectively suspended the writ of habeas corpus without authorization
18-6963 Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable…
18-5998 Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.…
18-218 Trey Beam v. Robert F. Abercrombie, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process investigation misdemeanor probable-cause qualified-immunity willful-failure Whether an officer may lose qualified immunity based upon the allegation of willful' failure to investigate even when the officer has established at l…
18-5552 Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has entered a decision that is in conflict with its own precedent and the decision…
18-5212 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an…