PLRA

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6142 Fathiree Ali v. Steven Simmons, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement grievance-procedure judicial-review plra prison-litigation-reform-act ross-v-blake When assessing whether prison administrators made the grievance procedure unavailable based on the three circumstances in Ross v. Blake, (1) will all …
22-6325 Travis Ray Thompson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied IFP administrative-grievance civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-prison due-process due-process-protections exhaustion exhaustion-requirement imminent-danger-exception plra prison prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the Eastern District abused its discretion finding Petitioner was not entitled to an 'imminent danger' exception to the PLRA, 42 USC § 1997e(a…
21-8010 Louis Gonzalez v. Elaine E. Bucklo, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure notice plra standing Whether the Seventh Circuit adopted an opinion conflicting with its earlier decision and other courts
19-7842 Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret Whether agency expertise could be applied to threshold questions accompanying a constitutional claim against a federal statute
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?
19-6410 Donald W. Rager v. Paige Augustine, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-remedies circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies plra prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the statute of limitations should be tolled for the time spent exhausting administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA…
18-9569 Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA?
18-7959 Paul David Maze v. Renea Terrell, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12(b)(6) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion plra prisoner-rights pro-se-litigant section-1983 standing Does a prisoner's §1983 civil matter require a remand if a District Court wrongly equate the standard for frivolousness of a complaint under §1915(d) …
18-7006 Gordon C. Reid v. Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis plra prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes Whether the PLRA's 'three strikes' provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), which bars prisoners from proceeding in forma pauperis if they have had three prior…
18-5695 Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the PLRA's dismissal procedures denies a fair and adequate opportunity to object or amend the complaint
18-162 Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies Whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index to remedy a constitutional…