| 25-5489 |
Peter Fowler v. Correctional Officer Lucas Bohnert, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment equal-protection incarceration plra sexual-abuse |
Whether equal protection applies to elder inmates under sexual abuse while incarcerated and whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying a motio… |
| 24-6309 |
Timothy DeFoggi v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment direct-harm extraordinary-circumstances sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.c.-3582 |
Whether the lower court erred in denying a finding of 'extraordinary and compelling' under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 1B1.13(b)(6) and in assessing d… |
| 24-74 |
In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey |
|
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5071 |
Dennis German v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment and 5th Amendment constitutional rights by using separate incidents as relevant conduct… |
| 23-7814 |
James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing |
Whether sentences of life without parole, as applied to juvenile offenders, violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment… |
| 23-1139 |
John F. Gallagher v. Northampton County Revenue Appeals Board, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction property-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tax-injunction-act |
Whether federal subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1331 is barred by the Tax Injunction Act or the doctrine of comity for claims challenging… |
| 23-7224 |
Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment whitley-standard |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit misapplied the Whitley factors by viewing the evidence in the light… |
| 23-1097 |
J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm or instead must prov… |
| 23-7091 |
Brandon De McCall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness |
Whether the 'moral blameworthiness' jury instruction prevented the consideration of constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence |
| 23-7086 |
Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
whether-grievances-were-properly-filed |
| 23-7061 |
Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation |
Proximate causation, due process, conflicting interpretation, statutory interpretation, substantive due process |
| 23-7053 |
Jonathan James Markle v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 23-7033 |
Donte Taylor v. California |
California |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Why was my 8th amendment denied? |
| 23-6996 |
Brian Anderson v. Jeff Long, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation court-order due-process inmate-rights prison-warden qualified-immunity standing state-prisons |
If a State Prison Warden refuses to obey a Court Order & refuses to obey the Governor & refuses to obey the Executive Director Of Colorado Prisons, do… |
| 23-6988 |
Anthony Shief v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires Miller protections for juvenile offenders who receive de facto lif… |
| 23-6964 |
Harvey Cantrell v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights competency due-process mental-illness |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 23-6935 |
Dennis James Gaede v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto excessive-punishment grand-jury north-dakota |
Whether Gaede's 8th and 14th Amendment Rights to Due Process and to be Free from Excessive Punishment were Violated |
| 23-6921 |
Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review solitary-confinement |
Whether the State of Illinois violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process c… |
| 23-6858 |
Tujuan Estaisyo Session v. FNU Giannotti, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process medical-care prison-conditions retaliation |
Whether the Supreme Court should order the federal Bureau of Prisons to investigate and address the petitioner's allegations of assault and threats by… |
| 23-6739 |
John Richard Brinson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable? |
| 23-6627 |
In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton |
|
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional |
Whether the petitioner has been deprived of his constitutional rights under the 8th and 14th Amendment |
| 23-6431 |
Mariano Madrid v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-law judicial-review juvenile-justice legal-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person who was a juvenile at the time of the o… |
| 23-722 |
Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified-immunity to prison-officials in these cases by defining the relevant-law at a high-level-of-gene… |
| 23-6389 |
Michael Lavern Boyd v. Lay, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process legal-provisions medical-care petition prison supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the denial of access to medical supplies that are necessary to avoid severe pain and suffering violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on … |
| 23-6229 |
Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water |
Did CDOC violate Cary's due-process, equal-protection, 8th-amendment, toxic-water, medical-care, legal-materials |
| 23-6159 |
Eddie James King v. Doctor Aikens, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment medical-care search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the plaintiff's deliberate indifference claim is valid |
| 23-471 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice |
Does Alabama's exclusion of 18-year-olds from jury service, coupled with its permitting them to be tried as adults, deny 18-year-old defendants their … |
| 23-5931 |
Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity |
Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it stated that Mr. Kissner did not show deliberate indifference to seriou… |
| 23-5842 |
Ellis Keyes v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment citizen-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process governmental-invasion governmental-powers state-sovereignty torture torture-prohibition |
Shall the State of Mississippi be restrained, abolished and banned from the use of torture? |
| 23-5747 |
Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals properly denied Petitioner due process and Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to consider newly discov… |
| 23-5630 |
Jack R. Sliney v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment age-of-defendant death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders |
Whether Florida may impose a death sentence upon an individual under 21 |
| 23-210 |
Christina Jordan v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee |
Whether the courts should employ the historically accepted two-prong deliberate indifference framework or the 'objective unreasonableness' analysis fo… |
| 23-5485 |
Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity |
Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 is unconstitutional |
| 23-5460 |
Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement |
Was excessive force used during an arrest and detention at a detention center? |
| 23-5441 |
Mika 'ya Ali Shakur v. Sergeant Thompson |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure prison-healthcare serious-medical-need |
Whether the plaintiff's allegation of denial of Eighth Amendment right to serious medical need for COVID-19 vaccine fails to satisfy Fed. R. Civ. P. 8… |
| 23-175 |
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (109)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-citations constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness public-camping |
Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the Ei… |
| 23-157 |
Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity |
Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment, Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th, and… |
| 23-5375 |
Isidro Miguel Delacruz v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-proportionality death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-culpability |
Can the Texas death penalty statute be reconciled with this Court's long-established mitigation jurisprudence? |
| 23-5249 |
Ryan David Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-request civil-rights court-filing death-penalty due-process legal-petition mental-health solitary-confinement supreme-court |
Whether the conditions of confinement and treatment of a death-row inmate violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 23-5255 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Livingston County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts actual-injury civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect monell-claim monell-policy prisoner-rights |
Is this the correct evaluation of the evidence for deliberate indifference and would the Monell policy standard be eroded by the evaluation of this ca… |
| 23-5098 |
Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Employees, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions statutory-provisions |
Whether the conditions of confinement at Mule Creek State Prison violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 23-5066 |
Juan Reyes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-fines incorporation judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-5029 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
|
2023-07-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing |
Whether the District Court and Appellate Court violated Appellant's 1st, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendment rights |
| 23-7 |
Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with diabetes and open wounds to endure prolonged and unnecessary exposure t… |
| 22-7861 |
Darryl C. Daniels v. Z. Culpepper, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights retaliation |
Whether a prisoner can be punished for requesting protection from a prison administration |
| 22-7795 |
Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Laura B. Zuchowski, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Vermont Service Center |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-suppression civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-officials immigration-law |
Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the USCIS director's suppression of the plaintiff's appeal application, resulting in hi… |
| 22-7769 |
Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion |
Mandatory-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders |
| 22-7549 |
Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity |
Is retroactivity applicable for post-conviction relief? |
| 22-7492 |
Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana |
Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children? |
| 22-7462 |
Ronnie Bowman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial based on the alleged violation of his constitutional rights under the … |
| 22-1063 |
Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker |
Tennessee |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits term-of-years sentences that effectively deny juvenile offenders a meaningful opportunity for release |
| 22-7340 |
Damorius D. Gaines v. Geoffrey Benedict Eaton, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant |
Did the South Carolina courts err in denying relief on petitioner's claims that his constitutional rights were violated? |
| 22-7305 |
Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or ver… |
| 22-1005 |
Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters |
Minnesota |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in qualified immunity cases? |
| 22-7232 |
Darrell Gunn v. Frederick N. Berntein, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment assault assault-case civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review medical-treatment retaliation |
Whether plaintiff was within the 5-year statute of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983(a) when he filed Section 1983 claims |
| 22-7141 |
Donald McDonald v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether the decision of the First District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clause claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 22-7135 |
Victoria Michelle Drain v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment capital-sentencing defense-counsel eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence ohio-supreme-court sentencing-review strategic-choice |
Whether defense counsel has discretion to present mitigating evidence in a capital case |
| 22-7134 |
Christopher L. Whitaker v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-defendant capital-punishment eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation-evidence self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Is a capital defendant's offer to plead guilty and waive all post-trial procedures in exchange for a life sentence admissible as mitigating evidence? |
| 22-7049 |
Robert A. Martinez, Jr. v. Lucas County Jail |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment inmate-healthcare medical-treatment |
Is it legal to refuse prescribed medication to a Disabled person while incarcerated? |
| 22-6762 |
Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing |
Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu… |
| 22-6739 |
Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity |
Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal violates … |
| 22-6577 |
Marcus Brent Fields v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process housing-policy medical-ethics prison-conditions prisoner-rights segregation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was injected with the harmful Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine against his will |
| 22-6524 |
Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law |
Whether the plaintiff's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment has been violated through an unlawful surgery performed without the p… |
| 22-6400 |
José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation |
jurisdiction-under-28-usc-1331 |
| 22-6384 |
Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment kosher-meal-requirements prisoner-rights |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, a… |
| 22-6366 |
Brala Beverly v. Orange County Sheriff, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection gender-identity transgender-rights |
Is it constitutional for the County of Orange in California, and the Orange County Sheriff, as a matter of custom or policy, to pretend transgender pe… |
| 22-6241 |
Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by denying petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, due-process, equal-pr… |
| 22-6193 |
Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding |
Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual |
| 22-6134 |
Eugene Riley III v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Did the State Court violate the U.S. Constitution when it imposed a 32 year sentence when it disregarded the mitigating factors laid out in Miller v. … |
| 22-6132 |
Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)? |
| 22-6096 |
Gary Eye v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights competency due-process mental-illness |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 22-6088 |
Tupoutoe Mataele v. California |
California |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m… |
| 22-6044 |
Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi… |
| 22-5943 |
Isaiah Tyler v. Kentucky Department of Corrections |
Kentucky |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest violent-offender-statute |
Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process? |
| 22-386 |
Andy A. Weimer v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment admiralty-law amendment-eight amendment-seven civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process jury-trial law-enforcement-conduct |
Whether state and county governments can violate constitutional rights by invoking admiralty/maritime law and denying a jury trial under the 7th Amend… |
| 22-5889 |
Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-5808 |
Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing |
Whether an inmate has a right to sue for denial of exercise and recreation opportunities during COVID-19 restrictions |
| 22-5771 |
Shawn Canada v. Olmsted County Community Corrections, All Staff Members, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process proportionality prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires that a defendant be sentenced to a term of imprisonment that is pr… |
| 22-5646 |
Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Did Court of Appeals err in ruling on disability claims under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act? |
| 22-5661 |
Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Unknown |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appeal-status bail-funding bail-funding-appeal certiorari due-process jurisdiction motions-for-new-trial non-trial-motions post-conviction post-conviction-records |
Question not identified |
| 22-5584 |
Emru Kebede v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-discrimination due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences roper-v-simmons |
Do the decisions of this Court in Roper v. Simmons and Miller v. Alabama establish a fundamental right for offenders under 18 years of age as it relat… |
| 22-5559 |
Patricio Estrada v. Troy Nehls, Sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disciplinary-isolation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection medical-treatment prison-conditions |
Whether Estrada's due process rights were violated by being placed in disciplinary isolation prior to any hearing |
| 22-5544 |
Jason L. Sanders v. Matt Macauley, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 due-process medical-care prisoner-rights |
Question not identified |
| 22-5405 |
Perry Sawano v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review |
Does the Eighth Amendment require a sentencing court to consider a defendant's overall/aggregate sentence when conducting a proportionality review? |
| 22-5358 |
James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-5297 |
Jean Max Darbouze v. California |
California |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment helling-v-mckinney state-application |
Whether the respondent violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment constitutional rights, as applied to the State of California via the 14th Amendment |
| 22-5121 |
Barbara Marie Frantz v. Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care qualified-immunity |
Whether Petitioner, Ms. Franz, has stated a claim for Respondents' deprived deliberate indifference to her serious medical needs |
| 21-8156 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. Jeffrey Alvarez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether prison officials are deliberately indifferent when they delay or intentionally interfere with medical treatment |
| 21-8043 |
William Sims v. Alexis Figueroa |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit factual-disputes medical-care nonmovant-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
Does the decision below, which misstates a summary judgment record and resolves factual disputes against a nonmovant, warrant summary reversal? |
| 21-8005 |
Mark M. Lowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-corrections due-process human-needs judicial-disqualification pro-se-appellant standing |
Whether the denial of basic human needs violates individual rights under the 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution |
| 21-7829 |
Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment competency-to-be-executed eighth-amendment execution-standard mental-competency mental-illness non-bizarre-delusions panetti-precedent panetti-v-quarterman schizophrenia |
Does Panetti v. Quarterman foreclose a schizophrenic prisoner from demonstrating that non-bizarre delusions obstruct his rational understanding of the… |
| 21-7839 |
Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference deliberative-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-reconsideration standing untimely-filing |
Did the court commit error when it dismissed my complaint as frivolous? |
| 21-7780 |
Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California |
California |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability |
Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose exculpatory and impeachment evidence related to a police officer's prior criminal conduct violates the defe… |
| 21-7759 |
Mikkel McKinnie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 8th-amendment burrage-precedent causation drug-offense drug-related-death due-process guideline-range sentencing sentencing-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the Lower Courts Erred in Not Applying the Court's Precedent in Burrage v. United States |
| 21-1401 |
John Doe v. Colonel Gary T. Settle, Superintendent, Virginia Department of State Police |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment punishment punishment-analysis sex-offender-registry smith-v-doe state-restrictions |
Whether a state sex offender registry that imposes restrictions on individuals beyond mere registration with state or local law enforcement constitute… |
| 21-7686 |
Robert Maillet v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process sex-offender-registry supervised-release |
Question not identified |
| 21-7663 |
Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state constitutional test that is less protective than the federal constitutional test fails to 'adjudicate[ ... ] the merits' of the federa… |
| 21-1363 |
Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement |
Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence? |
| 21-7652 |
Damian Scott Olvera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-7512 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement |
Whether petitioner given defendants' notice of what the claims are and the grounds upon which it rests? |
| 21-7485 |
Terrell Staton v. Ned Lamont |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights disciplinary-report due-process eighth-amendment grievance-procedure judicial-discretion legal-access malicious-interference procedural-restrictions retaliation |
Did Gam E cE | ~ NoTKE expose the plaintiff to dangerous living conditions by his reluctance and insubordination to wear his mask appropriately? |
| 21-7426 |
Eric Jason Spears v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standards ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the petitioner's successive petition for post-conviction relief was unconstitutionally denied due to a malicious claim |
| 21-7435 |
Ronell Williams v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discretionary-sentencing jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion youth-characteristics |
Does this Court's decision in Jones v. Mississippi mandate that states must strictly apply that any discretion in sentencing a juvenile to life withou… |
| 21-1268 |
Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 |
Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 21-7288 |
Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/prison guard could give a citize… |
| 21-1210 |
Scott County, Tennessee v. Tammy Brawner |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care objective-standard pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention subjective-test |
Whether this Court should apply the subjective test for deliberate indifference set forth in Farmer v. Brennan to claims by pretrial detainees of inad… |
| 21-7232 |
Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during … |
| 21-7185 |
Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment extends to governmental release systems for juvenile offenders |
| 21-1141 |
Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified-immunity-doctrine-demands-identical-fact-pattern |
| 21-6948 |
Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment |
Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing-without resubmission to t… |
| 21-6954 |
Robert Jurado v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment confession-evidence constitutional-amendments double-jeopardy mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review penalty-phase plea-bargaining skipper-standard |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the California Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply federal law or unreasonably determine facts |
| 21-6818 |
Arron Lawson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings |
Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a death sentence violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments when the court fails to ensure the defendant's com… |
| 21-6622 |
Rufus Lawson, Jr. v. Officer West, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines statutory-interpretation tax-evasion |
Whether the statute prohibiting willful failure to pay income taxes violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines |
| 21-6590 |
Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness |
Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 21-6517 |
Mark Stinson v. K. Cauley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-segregation civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration |
What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general prison p… |
| 21-6550 |
Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the execution protocol used by the State of Oklahoma violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-6531 |
Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts failed to address the medical needs of the petitioner's central diabetes insipidus |
| 21-6430 |
Michael Cardora Roberson v. Joe Morgan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process section-1983 serious-medical-needs under-color-of-state-law |
Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the plaintiff's serious medical needs violated the plaintiff's rights and constituted cruel and unu… |
| 21-6414 |
Charles Wayne Marietta v. Leanne LoBue, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights discovery due-process judicial-discretion medical-evidence medical-treatment summary-judgment |
Did the District Court of Arizona err in granting Summary Judgment for Defendants without presenting all the elements of Appellants' medical complaint… |
| 21-6237 |
Glenn C. Damond v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-offenders life-without-parole non-homicide-offenses |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits the imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of parole for … |
| 21-6160 |
Dennis Dean Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes |
Has the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment required the Supreme Court to remedy it in the case where persons similarly sit… |
| 21-6093 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering |
Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe 'unnecessary inflict of wanton pain… |
| 21-5900 |
Justin Anderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant is b… |
| 21-5842 |
Raymond Lee Bosarge v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process standing takings |
Whether the New York ban on carrying firearms in public for self-defense violates the Second Amendment |
| 21-5792 |
Karl Roye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 21-437 |
Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County |
Maryland |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment administrative-abuse civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines racial-discrimination takings zoning zoning-violations |
Were unjustifiable excessive fines imposed by the Calvert County's Planning and zoning employees to the Petitioner? |
| 21-5721 |
In Re Michael Wappler |
|
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 due-process prison-conditions |
Whether a prisoner who is among a group identified by the CDC as vulnerable to the more contagious COVID-19 'D' variant is entitled to early release t… |
| 21-5704 |
Antoine Martwain Hill-El v. Calvin Johnson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 21-5587 |
Calvin Jarrod Hester v. Folashade Ituah |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conflict motion-to-amend standing |
Whether the lower court erred and abused its discretion in dismissing the deprivation of constitutional rights and civil rights violations claim |
| 21-5550 |
Darrel Welch v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states |
| 21-5540 |
Guadalupe Urbina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g1 18-usc-924a2 8th-amendment 8th-circuit carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-firearm-possession criminal-history eighth-circuit-precedent felony-enhancement second-amendment-rights sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction |
whether-prior-offenses-constitute-felony-for-enhanced-sentence |
| 21-5481 |
James Earnest Watts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the conviction and sentence of the petitioner under the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on … |
| 21-5467 |
Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 21-5391 |
Jermontae Moss v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment family-violence felony-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Does a court violate Miller when it refuses to consider childhood trauma as mitigating when sentencing a child to life without parole? |
| 21-5346 |
Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the activity enhancement under 18 U.S.C. 2241(c) violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-153 |
Nagui Mankaruse v. Intel Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violations bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech |
Whether the United States Supreme Court must defend the Bill of Rights of our Great United States Constitution? |
| 21-5297 |
Kurzie Lee Curtis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment bureau-of-prisons civil-rights compassionate-release due-process first-step-act |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons' policy of denying compassionate release to inmates who have not served at least 50% of their sentence violates the Firs… |
| 21-5269 |
Toy Terrell Smith v. J. Torres, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process prison-conditions transfer-policy |
Whether a prisoner's transfer to a facility where he previously caused a riot constitutes cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-5164 |
Larry G. Coker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the re-sentencing of the petitioner to 25 years, which exceeded the lawful sentence, violated the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusu… |
| 21-5108 |
Victor Willis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been determined to be intelle… |
| 21-5066 |
Aquabeus Moore v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment 924(c)-enhancement crime-of-violence eighth-amendment equal-protection first-step-act fourteenth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery |
Whether Petitioner's conviction of Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' considering new case law and the passage of the First Step Act? |
| 21-5071 |
Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California |
California |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice |
Whether the State of California's Department of Corrections has ignored a court ruling that jeopardized the lives and caused injuries and deaths of ma… |
| 20-8340 |
Reginald Charles Harvey v. Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights compassionate-release covid-19 due-process prison-reform |
What constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the Tennessee Department of Correction denied the petitioners' request for compassionate r… |
| 20-8289 |
Cush Ajelya Wright-El, aka James Joseph Owens-El v. Mr. Thomas, Warden, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fir… |
| 20-8276 |
Joel Barcelona v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-refusal civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disability-accommodation due-process healthcare-access medical-needs medical-rights statutory-rights |
Whether the respondents acted with deliberate indifference when they refused to authorize payments for a hearing aid, a medically necessary device to … |
| 20-1697 |
Alice Kimble v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness |
Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR or… |
| 20-8253 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause |
Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intellec… |
| 20-8206 |
Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can a person be convicted of alleged crimes based on mental retardation or other mental disabilities? |
| 20-8139 |
Mark W. Blond, Jr. v. New York |
New York |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus state-court-procedure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a writ of error coram nobis without a hearing |
| 20-8070 |
Michael Mejia v. Randy Pfister, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process sleep-deprivation |
Whether the application of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process … |
| 20-8048 |
James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme |
Whether Florida's death penalty scheme is unconstitutional as applied because the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the 'especially heinous, atroci… |
| 20-1562 |
Faye Strain, as Guardian of Thomas Benjamin Pratt v. Vic Regalado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jail jail-official medical-care pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees subjective-knowledge |
Whether a pretrial detainee can prevail against a jail official who disregarded an obvious risk of serious harm or whether the pretrial detainee must … |
| 20-7976 |
Treyton Lee Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision court-filing due-process excessive-fines incorporation jurisdictional-issue legal-document scotus-petition writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-1497 |
Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County, Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights county-regulations covid-19-restrictions due-process standing takings zoning zoning-violations |
Were the citations issued by the County sufficient notice of violations? |
| 20-7849 |
Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing |
Whether mandatory sentences are constitutional |
| 20-7851 |
Luis Noel Cruz, aka Noel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment contemporary-standards-of-decency criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing legislative-trends life-sentence mandatory-minimum miller-rule sentencing-discretion |
Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama be extended to 18-year-olds? |
| 20-7802 |
Michael Green v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether there exists a factual basis to support petitioner's conviction |
| 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 … |
| 20-7453 |
Douglas D. Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue |
Whether the venue was proper in the Northern District of Indiana |
| 20-7397 |
William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur… |
| 20-1234 |
Marianne Baptiste, et al. v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process juvenile-detention juvenile-rights medical-treatment state-custody |
Whether a juvenile committed to the custody of the State enjoys the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause when evaluating the ju… |
| 20-7368 |
Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee |
Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson's objective-reasonableness standard applies to pretrial detainees' deliberate-indifference claims |
| 20-7342 |
In Re Christopher Vigliotti |
|
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions |
Should the court issue an emergency writ of habeas corpus requiring respondent's to release petitioner due to the fact COVID-19 and its variants prese… |
| 20-7157 |
David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation |
Does an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need against a U.S. Probation officer present a valid Bivens claim in … |
| 20-7061 |
Frank Durand Tomlin v. Todd E. Ishee |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment basic-human-needs civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection prison-conditions public-policy standing |
Does prison officials' issuance of hygiene and cosmetics that do not work to prisoners constitute deprivation of a basic human need objectively suffic… |
| 20-7049 |
Edwin Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment age-based-sentencing brain-development constitutional-interpretation criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation |
Whether the Miller ban on mandatory life without parole sentences for juvenile homicide offenders should be extended to youths under the age of 21 |
| 20-6872 |
Scott Hildreth v. Kim Butler, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment grievance-process medical-neglect medical-treatment medication-refill policy prisoner-rights |
Is it right that the defendant Wexford health service, (Menard CC ) have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly or timel… |
| 20-941 |
Gregory Atkins, et al. v. Kenneth Williams, Medical Director, Tennessee Department of Correction |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief lack-of-funds official-capacity prison-conditions subjective-component |
Does the unavailability of funds or other resources negate the subjective component of a deliberate indifference claim under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-6829 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se |
Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence? |
| 20-6746 |
Jonathan Loyd v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing |
Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-6684 |
Daniel Todd Silveria v. California |
California |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-case due-process joint-trial mitigating-evidence severance |
May a court exclude significant mitigating evidence in a capital case by joining two codefendants in a single trial before a single jury? |
| 20-830 |
Washington v. Said Omer Ali |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-831 |
Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-6542 |
Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing |
Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all… |
| 20-765 |
M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance |
Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation |
| 20-6403 |
Casey Mattingly v. Duval County Jail, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial summary-judgment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in dismissing the Plaintiff's appeal, demonstrating a violation of the Plaintiff's constitutional rights unde… |
| 20-6134 |
Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,… |
| 20-6056 |
Matthew Jones v. Jose Capiro |
Delaware |
2020-10-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
8th-amendment abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-psychiatrist due-process judicial-process legal-frivolity malicious-prosecution medical-misdiagnosis section-1983-claim standing |
Did the lower Courts correctly use the 10-delaware-code-subsection-8803 |
| 20-6026 |
Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-matter civil-rights court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-proceeding medical-care pattern-of-misconduct physical-injury standing |
Whether the petitioner should be subjected to deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eighth Amendment, even though the petitioner … |
| 20-6010 |
Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care |
Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights |
| 20-445 |
Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether a trial court can disregard the Whitley-factors in an Eighth-Amendment-excessive-force case |
| 20-5732 |
Ernest Seadin v. Dean Williams, Director, Colorado Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment new-evidence no-escape-conviction plea-agreement sentence-expiration sentencing-violation |
Is the State of Colorado subjecting Petitioner to a death in prison sentence |
| 20-5716 |
James Ziegenfuss v. Anthony Mackey, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights competency due-process mental-illness |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been diagnosed with a severe … |
| 20-5608 |
Michael Jonathon Besoyan v. Jimmy Yee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-access jury-trial pro-se-litigant void-orders |
Whether any court or tribunal should be allowed to deny or deprive any citizen of basic rights listed in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment |
| 20-281 |
Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement |
| 20-5531 |
Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment |
Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional |
| 20-5521 |
Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights |
Whether gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition and whether there is a conflict between the 5th Circuit and other U.S. Courts of Appeals |
| 20-200 |
Morgan McCoy v. Michael Bullock, et al. |
Ohio |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment civil-procedure dismissal due-process evidence landlord-tenant-law prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination selective-enforcement standing |
Does pretrial court dismissing prima facie case before its evidence filing deadline constitute R.103(D) plain error in constitutional violation of due… |
| 20-5168 |
James Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process execution-methods lethal-injection |
Whether the petitioner's manner of execution is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment |
| 20-5142 |
Glen Jones Ward v. Corizon |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment accommodations accommodative-diet amendment-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process food-allergies food-intolerance free-speech medical-accommodation prisoner-treatment |
Whether the refusal to provide an accommodative diet or authorize food issues that address Ward's documented food allergies/intolerances violates his … |
| 20-5143 |
Glen Jones Ward v. Idaho, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-facility due-process equal-protection inmate-rights personal-safety retaliation staff-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the prison authorities' failure to protect the petitioner's safety and security |
| 20-31 |
Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain… |
| 20-21 |
Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies? |
| 19-8930 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the discretion of the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals in dismissing the petitioner's cl… |
| 19-8883 |
Nathan E. Gundy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial judicial-discretion standing trial-rights |
Whether the 8th Amendment of the United States Constitution bars are guaranteed to a fair trial in all criminal prosecutions or just when a judge deem… |
| 19-1438 |
George Abernathy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech property-forfeiture standing summary-judgment takings |
Whether the Court has abandoned the principle that 'one constitutional right should not have to be surrendered in order to assert another' |
| 19-1361 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment alternative-method availability capital-punishment death-penalty department-of-corrections departments-of-corrections execution-method feasibility Glossip-v-Gross legal-precedent |
Whether evidence of how other departments of corrections have obtained and successfully administered an alternative execution method is relevant to sh… |
| 19-8666 |
Louis Mayes v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection life-without-parole sentencing |
whether the kite SeotenceKa the S5tite_ of Teanessee Ate uly ty IWS LS equivaleat +o -+he mandatory Like without Parole SeotenceWa the Q012d° miler vA… |
| 19-8447 |
Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process |
Were us cha 1.Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishment |
| 19-8432 |
Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California |
California |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices |
Whether the 4th and 8th Amendment protections, as incorporated by the 14th Amendment, were violated by the conditions of confinement in California sta… |
| 19-8406 |
Jihad Shahaddah v. Deputy Gotcher, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law assault civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review notice statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant had notice of the plaintiffs' assault, and whether the lack of such notice is sufficient to show that the plaintiffs' Eighth Ame… |
| 19-8357 |
Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing |
Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by failing to address Louis's claims of … |
| 19-8348 |
Roland I. Kehano, Sr. v. Scott Harrington, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoner-rights |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process prohibit prison off… |
| 19-8320 |
Quintez Talley v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-claims pleading-standards prisoner-rights pro-se-plaintiff state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the party seeking to raise the possessory evidence privilege has an absolute evidentiary privilege |
| 19-8086 |
Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by the imposition of monetary sanctions and threat restr… |
| 19-1167 |
Bradley William Kennedy v. Stephen Morris, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment 8th-amendment AEDPA anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of- cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-trial-errors due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence statute-of-limitations trial-errors |
Whether Bradley Kennedy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is time barred under the one-year statute of limitations set forth in the anti-terroris… |
| 19-8057 |
Aaron Moran Brown v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-system |
Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles? |
| 19-8058 |
Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity |
Whether New Jersey's revised juvenile waiver statute (N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-26.1(c)) which prohibits the Family Court from waiving its jurisdiction over any … |
| 19-7860 |
Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal abuse its discretion in denying relief on the lack of medical diagnosis and treatment |
| 19-7876 |
Aaron Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did an unconstitutional 'objective risk of bias' or 'probability of actual bias on the part of the judge' manifest itself during the sentencing hearin… |
| 19-7749 |
Andrey L. Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-review res-judicata strickland-v-washington |
Does the State affirmative defense of Res Judicata defeats Amendment Fifth; Sixth; Eighth, and Fourteenth of the United States Constitution? |
| 19-7657 |
Marion L. Sherrod v. Sidney D. Harkelroad, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity seizure seizure-disorder standing warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals committed a reversible error in dismissing Mr. Sherrod's pro se claims |
| 19-7632 |
Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings |
Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution |
| 19-7622 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §§ 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-7594 |
Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience |
Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life… |
| 19-7565 |
Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity |
When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical … |
| 19-7574 |
Luis Beltran v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing |
Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause provide defendants who were between 18 and 22 an opportunity to demonstrate they are similarly situated,… |
| 19-7541 |
Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial |
Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his tr… |
| 19-7532 |
Travis Welsh v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 3.850-motion 8th-amendment capital-sexual-battery civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus law-of-the-case motion-filing petition standing void-for-vagueness |
Did the court's refusal to accept the timely 3.850 motion filing because it did not identify the circuit court in the certification of service violate… |
| 19-7449 |
Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review |
Whether the involuntary civil commitment of a non-dangerous individual violates due process and the Eighth Amendment |
| 19-7464 |
Derrick Dewayne Davis v. Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights correctional-facility deliberate-indifference due-process medical-neglect medical-treatment standing writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the 5th Circuit and the United States District Court violated plaintiff's constitutional rights by denying plaintiff's writ without reviewing … |
| 19-7214 |
Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment |
Whether the sitting panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's entry of summary judgment on petitioner's pro… |
| 19-7140 |
Antonio Medrano Ortiz v. George T. Solomon, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-force judicial-review medical-care medical-rule standing statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations |
Where the District Court erred by dismissing my original complaint as time-barred by statutes of limitations |
| 19-7036 |
Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated by the defendants' alleged deliberate indifference to the plai… |
| 19-6922 |
Charles Edward Bates v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing |
Whether the lower courts erred in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines and punishments as the forfeiture amount… |
| 19-6893 |
Michael Wayne Nelson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process patent prison-conditions retaliation standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions |
| 19-6812 |
Steven Kurt Baughman v. Michael Seale, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment brain-damage burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference due-process hyperglycemia insulin medical-treatment prisoner-rights retaliation serious-medical-needs |
Whether injecting a prisoner with insulin without knowing his immediate blood sugar level constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs |
| 19-6777 |
Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure |
Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS… |
| 19-6719 |
Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness |
Whether the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) as applied to the petitioner |
| 19-641 |
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC |
Colorado |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require… |
| 19-6545 |
Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture |
Issues being raised |
| 19-6449 |
Antwoine Marquise Bealer v. Kern Valley State Prison |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-decision administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-screening PLRA prison prisoner-rights standing |
Does the PLRA require the court to look beyond a prima facie showing when screening prisoner in forma pauperis complaints? |
| 19-6416 |
Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention |
Whether the Federal Bureau of Prisons can torture an inmate diagnosed with asthma by exposing them to oleoresin capsicum spray, toxic smoke, and tear … |
| 19-6329 |
Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions |
Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration? |
| 19-6254 |
Christopher T. Shanahan v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mitigating-factors parole parole-eligibility |
Does a juvenile life sentence with parole eligibility after a lengthy term violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-6260 |
Craig Cross v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Montgomery v. Louisiana when deciding Franklin v. State and State v. M… |
| 19-6092 |
Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the Petitioner's petition as untimely and in finding that the newly recognized constitutional right set f… |
| 19-6057 |
Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of life sentences on juvenile offenders convicted … |
| 19-6006 |
Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Does the Eighth Amendment require a factual finding to determine to which class a given juvenile belongs? |
| 19-5966 |
Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay |
Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery |
| 19-5944 |
Jerry D. Scott v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability |
| 19-5925 |
Kavin Maurice Rhodes v. Peter C. Swarth, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment assets civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees due-process excessive-fines financial-disclosure financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis incorporation indigent-status liabilities poverty pro-se-petition standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-5932 |
Chavez Myers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in denying Chavez Myers' § 23-110 motion |
| 19-264 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Lydell Marcus White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences |
Does the Eighth Amendment, under Miller v. Alabama, require invalidation of respondent's sentence? |
| 19-265 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing |
Does the Eighth Amendment, under Miller v. Alabama, require invalidation of respondent's sentence? |
| 19-5739 |
Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine |
Does the 'separate sovereigns' doctrine permit multiple punishments that are exempted from the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual p… |
| 19-5752 |
Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders |
Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deterring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long sentences run afoul of the 8th Amen… |
| 19-247 |
City of Boise, Idaho v. Robert Martin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Amici (20)Relisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness local-government-powers local-government-regulation public-camping public-health-and-safety |
Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating public camping and sleeping constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the E… |
| 19-5702 |
Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims prison-conditions prisoners-rights procedural-hurdles standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) is unconstitutional, when courts have denied prisoners past relief for their grievances merely because the prisoners have … |
| 19-5622 |
Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing |
Whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory minimum cases violates the Fif… |
| 19-195 |
Robert Ryan Snyder v. California |
California |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation |
Has California's justice system forgotten what was taught by this Court's holding in Wilson v. Seiter |
| 19-5558 |
Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment |
Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the petitioner's serious medical needs violated the Eighth Amendment |
| 19-5560 |
Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim |
Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner's medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 38… |
| 19-5561 |
Stephen Michael West v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment bucklew-standard bucklew-v-precythe civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution res-judicata section-1983 standing |
When an inmate's § 1983 challenge to a state's method of execution meets the timeliness and pleading requirements of this Court's decision in Bucklew,… |
| 19-5540 |
Thomas Edward Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims? |
| 19-5551 |
Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest |
Is actual innocence a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? |
| 19-5502 |
David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints |
Why was I tased in a restraint chair with only one arm loose out of the restraints? |
| 19-5508 |
Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect |
Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County Correctional Center et al. violate Carlin U. Powell's 8th and 14th Amendment rights by acting with delib… |
| 19-5493 |
David Ray Taylor v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-moratorium extrajudicial-information juror-misconduct jury-instructions moratorium standing state-action voir-dire |
Whether a trial court may impose a death sentence during a statewide moratorium on executions |
| 19-5419 |
Raleigh D. Wiggins v. Eddie Pearson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process medical-care prison standing takings |
Whether the Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to provide appropriate medical care and treatment |
| 19-5302 |
Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the State of Florida can impose a life sentence on an individual despite a jury's recommendation of a lesser sentence |
| 19-5207 |
Admassu Regassa v. Emily Cimino, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ftca ftca-claim judicial-review prison-conditions pro-se-prisoner |
Whether the district court erroneously dismissed the petitioner's Second Amended Complaint and the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the dismissal |
| 19-5060 |
Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing |
Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons' abilities to … |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether a 90-year consecutive sentence for a 33-year-old first-time offender violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishme… |
| 18-1590 |
Corey Lamar Smith, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-test danger due-process helling-v-mckinney incident-rate-statistics ninth-circuit plata-receiver prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing state-officials |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied the clearly established test's generality principles by analyzing the issue too specifically, whether the Ninth C… |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum life sentence for one convicted under the guilty-but-mentally-ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-9714 |
John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing |
Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the 'squarely governing' case through a quote of a case with similar facts? |
| 18-9647 |
George Edward Tustin, Jr. v. Brad Livingston, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review medical-treatment prison prison-conditions |
Whether the district court erred in determining that the delay in treatment was not caused by deliberate indifference |
| 18-9614 |
Rick Allen Rhoades v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-murder due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions mitigating-evidence punishment-phase structural-error trial-procedure |
Is the exclusion of relevant mitigating evidence during the punishment phase of a capital murder trial structural error, when the wrongfully excluded … |
| 18-1523 |
Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university |
Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forum extend to city and state public streets and publ… |
| 18-9586 |
Jovan Watkins v. Robert Green, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need policy-procedures prison-conditions standing |
Did the court of appeals err in not reviewing the lower court's decision by finding that the petitioner lacked standing to appeal |
| 18-9558 |
Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred |
| 18-9508 |
Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues |
Deliberate-indifference-to-medical-needs |
| 18-9492 |
Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay |
Florida |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment battery civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment detention due-process eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement-detention |
Whether ~30' transportation to jail in a law-enforcement hyperthermic, 'cooking' car is cruel and unusual punishment |
| 18-9388 |
In Re Ramsey Randall |
|
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-remedy free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the federal abstention doctrine restricts federal courts from providing relief to state criminal defendants who seek to challenge their convic… |
| 18-9396 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that Mr. Long was not entitled to a stay because of inexcusable delay in bringing his l… |
| 18-9387 |
Mary Elizabeth Schipke v. Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-gideon civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process equal-protection extension-of-time homelessness inheritance inheritance-rights speedy-trial |
Whether the 2nd Circuit Court erred in refusing Petitioner's motion for assistance of counsel and an extension of time under the Americans with Disabi… |
| 18-9349 |
Robert Lee McConnell v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-requirement due-process jury-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Constitution requires—in a state in which a jury is required to find that mitigating circumstances do not outweigh the aggravating circums… |
| 18-9286 |
Prentis Rupert v. Keith Bowers, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights class-action deliberate-indifference due-process hepatitis-c medical-care prison-conditions settlement-agreement standing summary-judgment |
Whether the petitioner's claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs should proceed without summary judgment |
| 18-9270 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florida and reveals that Florida contin… |
| 18-9250 |
Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment |
Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case |
| 18-9225 |
Michael Otho Raihala v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-detention due-process pre-accusation-detention probable-cause state-agent-liability |
Whether it is constitutional for state and local agents to detain a citizen indefinitely without probable cause or process as a pre-accusation detaine… |
| 18-9126 |
Alan L. Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing-due-process-medical-trea 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules medical-records medical-treatment prison-conditions security-concerns standing |
Whether the denial of the petitioner's request for medical treatment violates his constitutional rights |
| 18-9140 |
Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability |
Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error? |
| 18-9144 |
Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk |
Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82… |
| 18-8870 |
Douglas Taylor v. Terrizina Jones |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing |
Whether Douglas Taylor's constitutional rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the deliberate act of Respondent, officer T… |
| 18-8731 |
Carlos Noguera v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection excessive-force medical-care prison-conditions standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was subjected to excessive force and denie… |
| 18-8740 |
Michael Manley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence |
Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence? |
| 18-8761 |
Arthur Jones v. California |
California |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing |
Whether the California Penal Code §1192.7(c) that removes assessment of fact from the jury used to increase punishment is unconstitutional under the A… |
| 18-8723 |
Miles Sterling Bench v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment affidavit civil-rights competency costs criminal-appeals death-penalty declaration due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent indigent-status mental-illness oklahoma-law supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person with severe mental illness |
| 18-8691 |
Eugene C. Boisvert v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
13th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights counsel-ineffective due-process government-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's 5th, 6th, 8th, and 13th Amendment constitutional rights were violated by the United States government and the petitioner's co… |
| 18-8704 |
Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment, prohibition against crue… |
| 18-8653 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's adaptive functioning analysis of intellectually disabled individuals violate the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-8607 |
Johnnie Sterling v. Chuck Dwyer |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance manifest-injustice mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact procedural-due-process |
Should the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-8550 |
Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure |
Whether the petitioner was lawfully retained in the Florida Department of Corrections |
| 18-8521 |
Angel Galan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the sentencing court's upward variance from 71 months to 84 months for felon in possession of a firearm was substantively unreasonable |
| 18-1162 |
P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity |
Denial of qualified immunity to correctional officers for alleged deliberate indifference to prisoners' medical needs |
| 18-8310 |
Azhar Lal v. B. G. Flores, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages deliberate-indifference due-process medical-treatment prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the prison doctor's deliberate failure to provide insulin treatment for a diabetic inmate's serious medical need amounts to cruel and unusual … |
| 18-1146 |
Johanna Ong, et al. v. Hudson County Superior Court, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment bodily-harm civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations damages due-process eighth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing statute-of-limitations |
Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth/Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and Eight… |
| 18-8250 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing |
Did the 8th Circuit incorrectly apply the mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits? |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prisoners have a statutory right to refuse long-term treatment with psychotropic drugs absent a judicial determination of incompetence |
| 18-8204 |
Eduardo Molina Bracero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions |
| 18-8116 |
Budry Michel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts |
Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision? |
| 18-8020 |
Benjamin Besteder, Jr. v. Sean Bowerman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-evidence appeal civil-rights due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court dismissed his motion for a new trial based on the denial of his righ… |
| 18-7912 |
Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment violates due process and double jeopardy |
| 18-7490 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'knowingly' provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? |
| 18-7467 |
Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing |
Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7458 |
Samuel Lewis Taylor v. Michael Miller, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment access-to-court access-to-courts cell-search civil-rights discovery due-process prison-conditions property-rights retaliation |
Whether or not petitioner's civil rights discovery material confiscated from petitioner's cell during cell search and disposed of denied access to the… |
| 18-7391 |
Gadiel Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Is it proper to apply a 6-level increase for a ransom demand in a kidnapping offense when not communicated? |
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247% year minimum violate the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-7279 |
Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague |
Whether a federal question is raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller … |
| 18-7226 |
Omar Blanco v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights death-penalty due-process retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Did Hall v. Florida announce a substantive rule of constitutional law? |
| 18-840 |
Steven Leon Banks v. Vincent Myron Gore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-negligence personal-involvement pro-se-plaintiff pro-se-pleadings qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment supervisory-liability |
Whether supervisors can be liable for constitutional violations of subordinates even without direct personal involvement |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th… |
| 18-7198 |
Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-794 |
Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access |
Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four… |
| 18-7049 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Was Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case? |
| 18-7058 |
Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bail-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony flight-risk mental-health pretrial-detention |
Whether the denial of bail for over 15 months on an individual who has no documented history of felony, prior acts of violence, and no history of flig… |
| 18-7034 |
Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole |
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s… |
| 18-7012 |
Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 18-7018 |
Luis Santos LaGaite, Jr. v. James Foley, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
3-strikes 8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-fairness magna-carta standing |
Whether the 3 strikes provision of 28 U.S.C. Section 1915(g) violates the Magna Carta, due process, and the fundamental fairness doctrine |
| 18-7019 |
Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden |
Nevada |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing |
Does the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825, create a categorical bar against the applic… |
| 18-727 |
Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserti… |
| 18-6891 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution |
Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person |
| 18-684 |
Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment |
Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui… |
| 18-6781 |
Joan E. Farr v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether Joan Farr was denied constitutional rights |
| 18-6739 |
David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection |
Whether under Glossip v. Gross, inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal injection protocol must present… |
| 18-6713 |
Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a sentencer to consider mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's mental health and background when determini… |
| 18-6516 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation |
Was the trial court's judgment unconstitutionally cruel and unusual? |
| 18-6488 |
Alonzo Dwayne Coleman v. Michael Hakala, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-medical-care deliberate-deception deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-evidence medical-treatment prison prison-medical-treatment rare-disease |
Whether there is a constitutional standard of medical care for persons with rare massive polycystic liver disease and are the state's (Missouri) priso… |
| 18-6458 |
Eddie Williams, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-speech standing state-action takings |
Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court erred in determining that the petitioner's claims under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitut… |
| 18-6433 |
Robert Norman Smithback v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, constitutional-guarantees cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection farmer-v-brennan prison-conditions prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Texas jurisprudence enforces constitutional guarantees, especially the Supreme Court's Farmer v. Brennan decision |
| 18-476 |
Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs must show subjective intent or ob… |
| 18-6264 |
Adrian M. Requena v. Ray Roberts, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability judicial-oversight judicial-review prison-officials prisoner-rights |
Can Prison Officials violate a prisoner's Constitutional Rights and the Court System turn a blind eye? |
| 18-6220 |
Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank Bishop, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment access access-to-courts civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process food-and-water liberty |
Whether the short period of being held without trial and the deprivations of liberty, food, drinking water, and access to the outdoors violate the Eig… |
| 18-6223 |
Martin Jonassen v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-procedure cell-conditions civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process facility-design habeas-corpus inmate-safety prison-conditions prison-overcrowding standing |
Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal without a hearing and denial of petitioner's requests for injunctive and dec… |
| 18-6153 |
Tonya Lynn Raisbeck v. Anthony Stewart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment assets assets-liabilities civil-rights due-process excessive-fines expenses financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income incorporation monthly-expenses monthly-income poverty poverty-affidavit support |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-6086 |
In Re Daniel Clate Acker |
|
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction |
Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the… |
| 18-6027 |
Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing |
Is it permissible under the 8th amendment to impose an adult sentence on a minor for a non-dangerous, non-repetitive offense? |
| 18-5892 |
Andre Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-5834 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Keith Robinson |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment patent prison-conditions standing takings |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the court failed to provide him with adequate medical… |
| 18-5816 |
Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires the government to provide adequate medical care to incarcerated in… |
| 18-5792 |
Marlon Watford v. Thomas LaFond, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fi… |
| 18-5742 |
Solomon David Roberts v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing |
Whether the Supreme Court should review the role of constitutional law in excluding particular litigants based on previous filings |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-5652 |
Glen Springer v. Benjamin Dale Caple, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-needs prison-conditions |
Did Phish Suffer An Eighth Amendment Violation? |
| 18-203 |
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc… |
| 18-5595 |
Keith L. Williams v. Kul Sood, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-rights procedural-error standing summary-judgment |
Whether court of appeals or district court abused its discretion in (8th) amendment violation claim by failing to acknowledge evidence |
| 18-5584 |
Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity |
| 18-5490 |
Mark Madison Lowe v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion sixth-amendment stun-belt trial-procedure |
Whether the imposition of a RACC Stun belt with secret instructions to compel testimony, alter testimony, and remain silent during trial infringed upo… |
| 18-5430 |
James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a court to create a constitutional defense to an admitted Eighth Amendment violation requiring a prisoner plaintif… |
| 18-5402 |
Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of decis… |
| 18-5384 |
Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations |
Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of John… |
| 18-5283 |
David McGowan v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim |
Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus relief on an unlitig… |
| 18-5179 |
Ronnie Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the retroactive application of Hurst v. Florida was unconstitutionally limited |