access-to-courts

449 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6739 In Re Brandy Cornett 2026-02-06 Pending IFP access-to-courts constitutional-guarantee district-court emergency-relief judicial-discretion material-allegations Whether the constitutional guarantee of access to the courts permits a District Court to adopt all material allegations as true while concluding that …
25-6737 Clyde Pontefract v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act equitable-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-standing standing 1. When a Constitutional Right is being denied against a federal prisoner of the First Amendment Access-to~Court claim and he ask for Equitable Relief…
25-6625 Roman V. Serpik v. Jill Weedon, former Judge, Second Judicial District Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP access-to-courts due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-threshold qualified-immunity sovereign-citizen 1. Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to address threshold State v. 'Roman Serpik LLC CROMAN SERPIK "), Beckham County Okla. Distri…
25-805 Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. New Mexico 2026-01-08 Pending Response Waived access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of…
25A737 Frank Polo v. Scott Bernstein, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Application access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal procedural-fairness shotgun-pleading Question not identified.
25-6333 Cameron Kemp v. Michael Powers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity municipal-liability self-help-eviction 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's statutory right to appeal, despite Judge Sims' knowledge of a self-help evi…
25-6297 Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se rule-41b tucker-act 1. Whether the Court of Federal Claims may dismiss a pro se complaint for failure to prosecute based solely on an assertedly incomplete in forma paupe…
25-6244 Tasleema Yasin v. VM Master Issuer, LLC Georgia 2025-11-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review due-process electronic-filing equal-protection first-amendment 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a timely notice of appeal is denied solely because of the State's malfunctio…
25A583 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction Whether a pre-filing injunction conditioning court access on monetary sanctions violates due process and the right to access courts under the All Writ…
25-6069 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-11-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense 1. Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from defending himself i…
25-6012 Julia Dixon v. Medhost Dispatcher, et al. Massachusetts 2025-11-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-plaintiff medical-malpractice 1. Whether requiring an indigent, self-represented plaintiff to post a mandatory medical tribunal bond as a condition for access to a malpractice tria…
25-5714 Abass Yaya Bamba v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion 1. Whether a federal court may constitutionally dismiss a civil rights complaint solely for inability to pay filing fees, in violation of 28 U.S.C. § …
25A318 William Loggins, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts in-forma-pauperis law-library-access legal-communication prison-mail-policy pro-se-litigant Whether prison mail policies and limited law library access unconstitutionally impede an indigent prisoner's ability to timely file a petition for wri…
25-5628 Stephen Shapiro, et al. v. Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. California 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights fourteenth-amendment incarcerated-litigants procedural-due-process self-represented-litigants Due process principles are designed to ensure a party is afforded his or her right to be heard during adversarial proceedings: "As the rubric itself i…
25A210 Samuel Peter McElmeel v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights email-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional right to access to courts and preservation of potentially exculpatory evidence is violated by the impending…
25-5314 Theodore Justice v. McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-claims due-process judicial-admission procedural-limitations section-1983 I. Whether federal appellate courts may dismiss 42 U.S.C. § 1983 constitutional claims through procedural limitations when the underlying due process …
25-5243 Karen Y. Baez v. Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct mootness-doctrine pro-se-complaint 1) Whether a district court violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by dismissing a factually supported pro se complaint as frivolous un…
24A1082 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process filing-fees judicial-review pro-se procedural-rules Whether a pro se litigant's failure to pay filing fees and comply with procedural rules constitutes an unconstitutional deprivation of access to court…
24-7126 David C. Lettieri v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-05-02 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts complaint-filing constitutional-provisions court-power government-redress judicial-discretion Does a court have the power to prevent filing complaints to redress the government?
24-6707 Eddie Turner v. Department of Justice, Office of Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts filing-fees judicial-review mandamus procedural-technicalities sovereign-immunity Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court improperly dismissed a petition for mandamus based on sovereign immunity and procedural technical…
24-6493 Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause an…
24-6422 In Re Terry Lee Jackson, Sr. 2025-01-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts confrontation-clause constitutional-rights federal-defender habeas-corpus writ-of-certiorari Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right of access to the courts where the federal defender refused to file or assist in the filing of a Petitio…
24A697 Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violated a pro se prisoner's clearly established constitutional right of access to courts by disregarding h…
24A638 John Paul Gomez v. Judge Dan Favreau, et al. Ohio 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigator Whether a state court's vexatious litigator designation violates a pro se litigant's constitutional rights to access the courts and seek judicial redr…
24-6174 David C. Lettieri v. Federal Marshals Sixth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-process access-to-courts bivens-action constitutional-rights federal-agency pro-se Whether a pro se litigant can be denied access to courts and file a Bivens action without knowing an officer's name
24A589 La Dell Grizzell, on Behalf of Her Minor Children v. San Elijo Elementary School, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction minor-children parental-rights pro-se-litigation Whether a parent can bring a pro se civil rights action on behalf of minor children without retaining counsel, notwithstanding a categorical rule requ…
24A526 Saaed Moslem v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete access-to-courts appellate-proceedings constitutional-rights critical-stages due-process sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to be present at critical stages of appellate proceedings requires transportation from prison to a…
24A474 Blake Andrew Warner v. Hillsborough County School Board Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Presumed Complete access-to-courts child-representation counsel-mandate federal-litigation parental-rights pro-se-representation Whether parents have a constitutional right to represent their minor children pro se in federal court without being required to retain counsel
24-5936 Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler Fifth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60b6 Does the District Court and Fifth Circuit's ruling conflict with Supreme Court precedents regarding ineffective assistance of counsel claims, appointm…
24-467 Christopher Hadsell v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-25 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-challenge due-process fundamental-rights state-interest vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Law is unconstitutional on facial and as-applied grounds due to lack of narrow tailoring and compelling state …
24A367 Angela W. DeBose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts court-management judicial-discretion prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigation Whether a federal district court may impose a prefiling injunction against a pro se attorney's litigation without violating her constitutional right o…
24A342 Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck California 2024-10-10 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses prohibit a state court from designating a pro se litigant as vexatious wit…
24-5280 Willie Charles Rose v. Joseph Damron, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts first-amendment legal-documents prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously denied relief for a prisoner's claim of retaliation and denial of access to courts through unlawful stripping of…
24-140 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute unconstitutionally violates due process and separation of powers by restricting pro se litigants' ac…
24-5205 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error supreme-court Question not identified.
24A114 Edward Greeman v. Edward Burnett, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance law-library post-conviction pro-se-litigant Whether a state prisoner's inability to access a law library constitutes a violation of his constitutional right to meaningful post-conviction review
24-5148 Alexander Harvin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts assignment-of-security-deed civil-rights-violation due-process equal-protection foreclosure-challenge pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing Could the Petitioner have raised the issue of wrongful/illegal foreclosure in the 2014 court proceedings?
24-5081 Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation parti…
24A30 Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status and appellate filing fees violates a pro se litigant's constitutional right to meaningful access to the…
24-5053 Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution Oregon 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith and Lewis v. Casey when prison officials impeded access to courts and proxima…
23-7842 Lateshia Patillo v. Iowa District Court for Scott County Iowa 2024-07-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief state-court-procedure substantive-harm Whether the Superior Court's procedures deprived the Citizen's constitutional rights of due process, equal protection, and injunctive relief
23-7829 Brandon Roberts v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations strip-searches wrongful-death Can a prisoner state a claim for denial of access to the courts if prison officials impeded their ability to litigate a pending wrongful death suit?
23A1157 Alicia Marie Richards v. Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant procedural-barriers supreme-court Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments protect a pro se litigant's right to meaningful access to the Supreme Court and timely filing of a petitio…
23-7753 William Lee Boyer v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-assistance legal-notice notice one-year-deadline prisoner-rights Equitable-tolling-doctrine-for-federal-habeas-corpus
23A1098 Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete access-to-courts civil-rights legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se section-1983 Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources due to technical failures constitutes a violation of his constitutional right…
23-7591 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied IFP access-to-counsel access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-procedure prisoner-rights Whether Alabama's execution process violates the Eighth Amendment
23-1247 Duncan Abraham Goldberg v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts brain-injury brain-injury-accommodation civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-law-violation federal-laws judicial-access On what grounds does Missouri continue to deny the fundamental civil rights of people living with Brain Injury in the Missouri Judicial System?
23-7518 Kelly McGoffney v. Matthew Kincaid, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-closure federal-appellate-review rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-transfer Can the Court exercise jurisdiction to remedy violations of the petitioner's constitutional rights?
23-7496 In Re Olamide O. Bello 2024-05-16 Denied IFP access-to-court access-to-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing Whether the failure of the counsel to pursue an appeal or motion the petitioner would have otherwise pursued violate the Sixth Amendment prejudice the…
23-7454 Jennifer L. M. Sendzul v. Jay C. Hoag, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals-court civil-rights covid-19 district-court due-process indigent-rights judicial-access judicial-discretion remote-proceedings writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate when a district court denies any other form of meaningful access other than in-person for scheduled hearin…
23-7414 Mark A. VandenBoom v. Robert Strohmeyer Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-precedent precedent pro-se pro-se-litigation Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judgement conflict with this court's precedents resulting in a limitation of access to the court due to the p…
23-7389 Brad Evans v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the State of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroach upon the personal rights…
23-7363 Orin Kristich v. United States District Court for the District of New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit-court-of-appeals access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment legal-mail prison-officials Whether the First Amendment applies to legal mail
23-7315 In Re Craig Michael Ralston 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure clerical-error federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure houston-v-lack judicial-review mail-receipt postal-service prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing Is a certified mail receipt and date-stamp from the United States Postal Service along with the Prison Mailroom time-stamp enough to meet the requirem…
23-7282 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violations deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-misconduct Whether federal courts can take serious civil rights violations as frivolous
23-7236 Sandra Black v. Naomi Friedrichsen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-ruling due-process equal-protection legal-standing pro-se procedural-challenge standing Should a black pro se litigant with pauper status genuinely be heard in an American court of law?
23-7038 Benjamin Thurman v. Rug Doctor Eighth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Why was the claim dismissed at every attempt?
23-6986 Raghvendra Singh v. California California 2024-03-14 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights conviction-for-non-crime criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-charges false-testimony judicial-misconduct standing Whether the state court erred in not allowing the petitioner to prove that the alleged charges are not crimes
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…
23-933 Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of the Interior Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure court-fees fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion litigation-access statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) grant district courts authority to set a partial filing fee for in forma pauperis litigants, as the Ninth Circuit below an…
23-883 Lawrence Wilson Kingsley v. Ann Elizabeth Lange Louisiana 2024-02-16 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-intervention procedural-intervention standing Should this case be allowed to conflict with federal and state cases on nonparty intervention
23A743 Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-02-09 Presumed Complete access-to-courts covid-19 habeas-corpus law-library prison-conditions pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to a law library during a COVID-19 lockdown constitutes a violation of his constitutional right to meaningf…
23-856 Urve Maggitti v. Victor J. Maggitti, Jr. Pennsylvania 2024-02-08 Denied access-to-courts administrative-process civil-rights collateral-damage constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-review legal-remedy remedy standing Whether there is a remedy when the courts have failed to perform their duty and the state's highest court is party to the failure during the administr…
23-6533 James O. Bradley v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-power access-to-courts administrative-appeal administrative-procedure administrative-remedy civil-rights conspiracy corrections-department due-process incarcerated-rights judicial-review Whether the North Carolina Court of Appeals erred in taking no action on the Petitioners' appeal
23-6548 Andrew Joseph Avitable, aka Andrew Joseph Larson v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-breach due-process equal-protection forma-pauperis indigent judicial-immunity pro-se-litigation state-law-interpretation Can a State create policies, rules, and/or laws that contradict the State's and US Constitutions; and create a situation in which only those with the …
23-6473 Joseph Bergeron v. William Bolin, Warden, et al. Minnesota 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis informa-pauperis judicial-fairness legal-obstruction minnesota-judicial-system pro-se pro-se-litigation Can the Minnesota Judicial system deny Informa Pauperis to impoverished Pro Se litigant as a means to obstruct Judicial fairness?
23A620 Christopher J. Pratt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-04 Presumed Complete access-to-courts covid-19 first-amendment incarceration legal-mail prison-law-library Whether restrictions on prison law library access during the COVID-19 pandemic violated an incarcerated individual's constitutional right of access to…
23-6388 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-pro-se ineffective-assistance judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Whether the judge's bias against the petitioner justifies recusal and whether the court's denial of access to the courts based on the petitioner's ind…
23-6273 Eugene Lucas v. J. N. Ottinger, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure diligence due-process judicial-discretion legal-filing mailbox-rule prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-rights procedural-diligence Can a district Court negate the Prison mailbox rule by finding A prisoner did not show diligence
23-6254 William Graves, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the state of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroaches upon the personal righ…
23-6153 Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. v. Deborah S. Hunt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bivens bivens-action civil-rights court-access federal-counterpart-to-42-u.s.c.-§-1983 federal-remedy first-amendment habeas-corpus who-should-decide-whether-to-provide-for-a-damages-remedy,-congress-or-the-courts?
23-6126 Wayne M. English v. Parcel Express, Inc. Texas 2023-11-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigant texas-constitution Can the State of Texas through its judiciary ignore the state's own legislative intent, the Texas Bill of Rights, the Federal Constitution and the due…
23-6040 Ernest Bustos v. Encino Park Homeowners Association, et al. Texas 2023-11-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation Whether the Court violated Petitioner's protected rights
23-517 Jeffrey Pratt v. Tony Helms, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Camden County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct johnson-v-city-of-shelby meritorious-claims pleadings-doctrine Whether the Eighth Circuit impermissibly reestablished the long-abolished pleadings doctrine
23-6033 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights clifford-pinkney darryl-smith due-process james-gwin james-kennar prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit standing us-district-court Whether the total bar of all court access rights violates the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances
23A430 Ernest Bustos v. Encino Park Homeowners Association, et al. Texas 2023-11-14 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fraud-upon-court pro-se supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower courts violated a pro se litigant's due process rights by dismissing appeals based on procedural technicalities rather than addressi…
23-496 Sharan Garlapati v. Brigham & Women's Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights coercion constitutional-protections cyberstalking due-process obstruction-of-justice privacy privacy-rights stalking-by-proxy Does the fundamental right to privacy still exist in our modern digital age, and do conspiracies against civil-rights, cyberstalking, stalking-by-prox…
23-5981 Nestor Leon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts amendment-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal standing Did the district court err in not granting the petitioner an evidentiary hearing before the record conclusively declined that the petitioner was not e…
23-5841 James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation Can the State Department of Corrections terminate an inmate's access to legal materials and services in retaliation for the inmate's filing of a civil…
23A251 Obaida Abdulky, et al. v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. Massachusetts 2023-09-19 Presumed Complete access-to-courts attorney-malpractice due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the constitutional right of access to courts by establishin…
23-5576 Robert William Pann v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied IFP access-to-courts ex-parte-proceeding extrinsic-fraud first-amendment lewis-v-casey prison-conditions prisoner-rights probate-court prosecutorial-misconduct Is Petitioner's First Amendment right of access to the courts violated by the rule announced in Lewis v. Casey being too narrow by strictly limiting i…
23A229 Richard Summerall v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-11 Presumed Complete access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-prisoner Whether a prisoner's right to adequate access to legal resources and law library facilities is violated when institutional lockdowns and heavy caseloa…
23-5545 Robert K. Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Seventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings pro-se-litigant Did the lower courts err in dismissing the case and denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint
23-5520 Tamara Sue Harbec v. North Country Hospital and Health Practices, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process expert-testimony interpreter-access medical-care medical-malpractice medical-rights patient-care Was it constitutional to deny the right of an interpreter because of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss?
23-5492 Dennis Christensen v. Barry Reddish, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process handwritten-petition illegible-document potential-legal-issue prison-law-library pro-se-litigant standing unclear-text unreadable-text Whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the case without providing the petitioner an opportunity to amend the complaint to show…
23-5431 Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus prison-law-library strickland-standard strickland-test Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the Defendant's negligent actions did not violate the Plaintiff's constitutional right to access th…
23-5436 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-petition self-representation supreme-court timeliness writ-of-certiorari Does Bo Pep have a right to access the court for fee waiver?
23A149 Andrew J. J. Wolf v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-obstruction prison-officials Whether prison officials' intentional obstruction of an inmate's access to personal legal papers and court materials, implemented through standard ope…
23-5370 Charles Alan Dyer v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process legal-research lewis-v-casey post-conviction-appeal pro-se-prisoner procedural-bar procedural-bars Whether a state can place procedural bars on a pro se prisoner's initial post-conviction appeal after denying the prisoner access to legal research fa…
23-5323 Don Collins v. Rob Jeffreys, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-dismissal document-access due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing foia foia-request institutional-bias procedural-fairness Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the case after granting leave to serve defendants, and in failing to address issues related to access to e…
23-5282 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Andrew Whisnand, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied IFP absolute-immunity access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process first-amendment standing state-attorney-general Whether a state deputy attorney general has absolute immunity from suit for initiating criminal conspiracy?
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…
23-5246 Aaron Abadi v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts circuit-court-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing Can the Circuit Courts of Appeals treat indigent pro se litigants differently than they treat litigants who can afford attorneys, by just dismissing t…
23-86 Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation Whether HBH's concealment of its family relationship with the adverse party violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to freely associate and ma…
23-53 Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the dismissal conflicts with SCOTUS precedent on FRCP 60 and independent actions
23-5082 William Richter v. Charles Truitt, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas judicial-access post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights pro-se-petition standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of habeas relief had post-judgment procedural defects that denied adequate access to the courts a…
23-5067 Donivan Diaz v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts actual-injury civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-litigation prison-officials Whether prison officials interference with petitioner's ability to litigate his habeas cases by denying him access to his legal materials rise to the …
23A5 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-07-03 Presumed Complete access-to-courts criminal-conviction filing-restrictions habeas-corpus mandamus prisoner-rights Whether a district court violates a prisoner's constitutional right of access to courts by enforcing filing restrictions that prevent him from appeali…
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court Can a state tribunal deprive litigants to that tribunal equal protection of the law and even handed justice based upon a commitment offense?
22-7510 Noel Thomas v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis right-to-redress-grievances standing Whether the Trial Court erred in dismissing the case
22-7294 Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment Whether the systemic discrimination against pro se litigants by the federal courts, including the imposition of punitive sanctions for filing non-friv…
22-7190 Dante R. Voss v. Kevin A. Carr, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection legal-loan-policy standing takings takings-clause Whether Voss's complaint states a claim upon which relief may be granted
22-7161 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2023-03-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process finality procedural-fairness time-limitation timeliness transcript-denial Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to issue its order for over 11 months and then denying the appellant the opportunity to file a petition for rehe…
22-7105 Jimmy Allen Roberts v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-access prison-library statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Circuit's bright-line rule denying equitable tolling to North Carolina prisoners who lack access to legal resources violates the co…
22-889 Ryan Wollner v. Pearpop Inc. Delaware 2023-03-15 Denied access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-fairness property-rights right-to-counsel state-court-procedure Can a state court fundamentally alter its legal procedures to deprive a citizen of protected liberties and property without trial?
22-6967 Arnoldo Antonio Garcia v. Afod Valdez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts bivens-claim civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing a meritorious Bivens claim of nationwide importance?
22-6933 John Hessmer v. Robert Bryan, Sheriff, Wilson County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit should be allowed to cover up Judge Crenshaw's violations of Sixth Circuit and Supreme Court precedents by intentionally mis…
22-6937 Robert L. Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights court-access cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment pro-se-litigant redress Does a lifetime ban to courts under 28 U.S.C. §1915(g) unless one pays in full deny due process violating the 14th amendment right to seek redress?
22-6922 Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-action extraordinary-circumstance fed-r-civ-p-60(b)(6) lewis-v-casey prisoner-rights rule-60(b)(6) Whether the majority Circuit Court of Appeal decisions clarifying that Lewis v. Casey does not foreclose a prisoner's right to access to courts to lit…
22-6827 Sandra Rumanek v. Sherry R. Fallon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights court-resolution due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-questions petitioner-rights procedural-due-process right-to-be-heard standing Does petitioner Sandra Rumanek have the right to be heard?
22-6783 Meghan M. Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bar-dues civil-rights disciplinary-action due-process first-amendment free-speech reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom Whether the Third Circuit abused its discretion by denying a stay of civil-rights proceedings
22-6788 In Re Kent Williams 2023-02-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing Should this court order the ninth circuit court of appeals to discontinue its practice of sending orders and answers to prisoner litigants to a third …
22-6709 Chad Michael Vice v. Lee County Correctional Medical Provider, et al. Iowa 2023-02-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection incarcerated-individuals judicial-discretion right-to-petition Whether an Iowa 8' District Court in North Lee County at Fort Madison ' abused its discretion in its Order denying a motion to reconsider as [not time…
22-6398 Deon Lewis Duke v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights conspiracy corruption criminal-record delusion due-process law-enforcement property-rights standing telecommunications Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the alleged conspiracy to prevent the petitioner from completing a writ of certiorari …
22-6295 Jamisi Jermaine Calloway v. M. Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-violation-doctrine disability-rights due-process indigent-prisoner-rights legal-assistance pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation section-1983 When should a total disabled incarcerated indigent prisoner be appointed legal assistant in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case?
22-6285 In Re Jason D. Fisher 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-order ex-parte-orders in-forma-pauperis motion-practice standing temporary-protection-order Is 'permission based motion practice' legal or 'negative gatekeeping' legal?
22-6239 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation Whether a prisoner's right to access a county courthouse and public records is different than a regular citizen
22-6188 Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. Bo Thorpe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether the denial of library access, legal assistance, and the failure to notarize legal documents constitute sufficient injury to state a claim for …
22-6198 Darrel Thorn v. Racetrac Petroleum, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-leniency meaningful-opportunity pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether the procedural treatment currently afforded to pro-se litigants by federal courts comports with due process or whether more leniency is requir…
22-6116 Edmund Lowell Fields v. Chandler Cheeks Sixth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure complainant-access constitutional-provisions due-process great-writ habeas-corpus judicial-malfeasance judicial-misconduct judicial-review standing statutory-provisions SHOULD THE COMPLAINANT BE DENIED ACCESS TO THE GREAT WRIT BECAUSE OF JUDICIAL MALFEASANCE?
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing Whether Ans Repellee's onmaddatery Response That Fully Riiefed The macs OF The Tesue Subject To Waiver Lohoot Realy Mew Or Vortec Gueerisa May Be The …
22-6050 Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct legal-filing procedural-due-process statutory-law supreme-court-precedents Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to criminally dismiss the strikingly meritorious appeal
22-5971 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-02 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing Denial of meaningful access to prison law library due to COVID-19 restrictions
22-5954 David Florence v. S. Frauenheim, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts amending-complaint civil-rights complaint-amendment court-retaliation due-process grievance-filing legal-procedure qualified-immunity retaliation Whether respondent can intentionally falsify their report to the court to obtain qualified immunity
22-5959 William A. White v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-order document-entry due-process false-statements judicial-discretion procedural-standards sanctions standing Did the Seventh Circuit err in upholding two orders issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois barring the petit…
22-5873 Nicholas Levi Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-materials one-year-time-limit prison-lockdown Did the district error in holding that defendant violated AEDPA's one-year time limit for filing §2255 motion, even though prison was locked-down with…
22-5830 William Richter v. Ghaliah Obaisi, as Executor of the Estate of Saleh Obaisi Seventh Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-assistance pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-errors Whether the Faivie Te Apnot Cowimwrel Oy Apneal Foa Rosie, OF the Disthirel Cords Alaue of Dis hes Ze Faleng To Recess wee Conmtel Upow Wilheincsal of…
22-322 Zia Shaikh v. Madeline F. Einbinder, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights de-novo-review due-process first-amendment judicial-immunity section-1915 standing vexatious-litigant Did the Third Circuit err in not doing a De Nova Review
22-5757 Alvin Dalton v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process law-of-the-case liberty-interests mandatory-language Whether prisoners are entitled to have their permanent records free from falsified legal documents, legal enhancement errors, and phrases substituting…
22-5723 Jackie-DeVere Allen Cole v. Unknown El Paso County Sheriff's Office Records Clerk Colorado 2022-09-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing takings Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to the violation of his First Amendment rights
22-5685 Tyrice Hill v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-access deadlines due-process inmate-legal-assistance legal-research meaningful-access prisoner-rights sixth-circuit Does the Sixth Circuit's narrow interpretation of Bounds v. Smith deny the petitioner meaningful access to the courts?
22-5700 Eric E. Johnson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-protections whether-the-united-states-court-of-appeals-erred
22-5501 In Re Eric Drake 2022-09-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment prefiling-injunction pro-se-litigation sanctions state-courts vexatious-litigant Whether federal courts can issue prefiling injunctions without notice and a hearing
22-5311 Willie A. Key v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process filing-complaint filing-fee jurisdiction legal-procedure small-claims-court standing Whether the Court of Common Pleas erred in refusing to file petitioner's complaint on the ground of lack of jurisdiction?
22-5287 Gregory Edwin Dunn v. County of Santa Cruz, California Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigence privileges-and-immunities self-representation Whether indigence should be deemed a suspect or quasi-suspect class
22-5292 Isiah Trujillo v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-cause due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-review remedies state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court can provide guidelines regarding the material term 'state courts' embedded in the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Rul…
22-5051 Gabriel M. Robles, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process energy-assistance equal-protection in-forma-pauperis low-income-assistance poverty poverty-level Have the Courts enacted 'Rules' and Congress made laws that serve to deprive the poor and needy, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled, their …
21-8246 Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act are unconstitutional
21-8251 John L. Miller v. S. Acosta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process judicial-bias religious-rights standing Is the Ish Amendment right of access to the courts violated?
21-8257 Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process section-2255 statutory-interpretation Can the Court omit exculpatory facts to deny a citizen his one year guaranteed by 28 U.S.C. §2255(f£)(1) when the government by locking down the defen…
21-1581 Tong Park v. California California 2022-06-22 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment extrinsic-fraud fair-trial faretta-rights in-personam-jurisdiction prima-facie-guilt subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-error-coram-nobis whether-the-court-should-intervene-to-bring-lower-state-courts-in-line-with-established-us-constitutional-laws
21-8186 In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson 2022-06-21 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority district-court due-process filing-refusal habeas-corpus petition-rights pro-se standing Whether the United States District Court Clerk was constitutionally authorized to refuse to file a pro se litigant's petition for habeas corpus
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
21-7924 Timothy S. Smith v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Eighth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process pro-se standing Whether the courts of Minnesota have the authority to deny a pro se litigant's request for appointment of counsel in a civil rights case
21-7847 Michael G. Peters v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process free-speech public-trial standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the public's right to access court records and proceedings, and whether the government …
21-7817 Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. Dentist, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process incarceration medical-care pro-se Whether the petitioner has the right to receive copies of court filings
21-7692 Manuel Geraldo v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petitioner-rights procedural-fairness Whether a Court of Appeals Paying Lipservice in denying a COA violates the princples of Due-Process
21-7467 Patrick Muraca v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-rights court-deadlines due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration legal-access procedural-rules right-to-counsel speedy-trial Does an incarcerated individual have the timely and speedy right to an attorney before important court decisions are made, such as missing a deadline …
21-7383 Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied IFP abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho…
21-7175 Keith Smeaton v. United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus international-human-rights judicial-discretion mandamus-petition obstruction-of-justice Question not identified
21-7138 Roy Franklin Echols, Jr. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure covid-19 due-process federal-employers-liability-act fela fourteenth-amendment standing summons-service Did the United States District Court err in denying the initial request to expedite process?
21-7045 Michael James Hoffman v. Arizona Department of Corrections Arizona 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process free-speech legal-mail mail-obstruction obstruction-of-mail prison-communication takings Did ADOC violate Petitioner's constitutional rights to free-speech, due-process, and access-to-courts by removing his documents from the authorized US…
21-6938 David Charles Sussman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process filing-restrictions pro-se suspension-clause Does the Fla. court's imposition of an all-inclusive, total pro se filing bar violate the Suspension Clause of U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 9?
21-6809 Edward Shane West-El v. Midland Funding LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-11 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights delegation-of-authority due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-be-heard standing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to be heard in the lower tribunal federal courts
21-6725 Russ Scohy v. Pinellas County Code Enforcement Division Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-trespass pro-se pro-se-access property-rights search-and-seizure takings warrant-violation Whether trespass by government officials without a warrant, illegal search and seizure, and excessive fees resulting in loss of property violate const…
21-894 Helen Gardner v. New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, et al. New York 2021-12-17 Denied 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment section-1981 wrongful-death Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York erred in dismissing Petitioner's Wrongful Death Case for lack of a Certificate of Merit
21-809 Alexander Gallo v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-12-01 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights contract-clause due-process eviction-moratorium property-rights standing strict-scrutiny takings takings-clause Whether a Legislature's Closing of Landlord-Tenant Court Violates Access to the Court
21-6380 Sammy Lee Gibbs v. William Hamilton, Warden Florida 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts article-one-section-nine castro-v-united-states civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction writ-of-court Whether Habeas Corpus Court Violated Gibbs' right to due process and access to the court under Castro v United States 540 U.S 375 by converting Habeas…
21-765 In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company 2021-11-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss…
21-6353 Stephen Allwine v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts court-funding due-process equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief Did the Trial Court err in denying In Forma Pauperis funding based on financial status at start of prosecution rather than post-conviction action?
21-727 Robert R. Snyder v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied access-to-courts active-interference civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process law-library-access plausibility-standard prisoner-rights procedural-due-process prospective-relief standing Did the lower court incorrectly apply Christopher-v-Harbury
21-6271 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal Whether the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate cor…
21-6167 Harry Sharod James v. Roy Cooper, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure law-library legal-access prisoner-rights Whether the petitioner was deprived of his fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts by not having access to a meaningful, effective, a…
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio…
21-628 Ebenezer K. Howe, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process irs judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant recusal Do courts of appeal exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresented litigan…
21-629 Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, et al. v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process free-speech preemption radio-frequency-radiation right-of-access-to-courts right-to-petition takings telecommunications telecommunications-act Whether the preemption by 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv) of any State remedy for injury by telecommunications facilities without providing a substitute …
21-630 Harry Barnett v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response Waived access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-reconsider pro-se standing Whether a District Court's striking of a timely-filed Motion to Reconsider violates due process rights
21-6022 In Re Robert L. Hedrick 2021-10-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)?
21-6025 Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson South Dakota 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se
21-5962 Charles Nemon Vandross v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process standing supervision-of-lower-courts Whether the USCRY has denied Petitioner access to the courts
21-5935 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights unnecessary-litigation Whether the lower court abused its discretion by denying the petitioner's procedural claims, including the denial of access to the courts, failure to …
21-5857 Justin P. Stahmer v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals deprived jurisdiction from the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court to renew petitioner's Rule 60(b) appeal motion
21-5718 Glenn Damond v. Frank A. Marullo, III, et al. Louisiana 2021-09-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure court-records due-process judicial-misconduct standing Was the petitioner denied due process of law?
21-5698 Jasper Crook v. Ricardo Aguilar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice case-closure civil-rights court-fees due-process free-speech judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-rights ninth-circuit Does the petitioner have a right to 'free justice and open courts' without paying a fee to have their case heard in the Ninth Circuit?
21-5637 Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Darryl Glenn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-resources due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus inmate-rights legal-access standing Does the denial of the right to file a § 2254 habeas corpus claim with a court violate due-process, access-to-courts, civil-rights
21-5614 In Re James Williams 2021-09-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a pro se petitioner who is unable to afford professional legal representation can be denied the right to self-representation and have unwanted…
21-5508 Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's imposition of a 2-year ban on Petitioner from filing any civil actions in the district court, and the denial of Petitione…
21-5495 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti…
21-5496 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti…
21-5497 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. …
21-289 Randall Winslow v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection legal-redress redress right-to-contract standing state-regulation Whether Pennsylvania Certificate of Merit Pa.Code Rule 1042.3 comports with equal-justice
21-5476 In Re William Barret Slade, II 2021-08-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama state courts and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to apply the Supreme Court's rule in Martinez v. Ryan
21-262 The Rouge House, LLC v. 308 Decatur-New Orleans, LLC Louisiana 2021-08-24 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights corporate-representation corporations due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis Whether the fundamental rights of Due Process and Equal Protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are violated when a corpo…
21-5412 Alfred E. Caraffa v. California Housing Securities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process medical-care prison-conditions retaliation Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the prison's alleged practices of law library access denial, lack of legal assistance, an…
21-5421 Michael A. Payne v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction-challenge magistrate-orders motion-to-reconsider pandemic-impact Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio erred in refusing to accept jurisdiction of appellants' memorandum, despite the fact that the appellate court erred …
21-5320 Trenton John Tompkins v. Lauren Leigh Hackett Third Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure prison-conditions pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to submit his appellant's brief and appendix due to a prison lockdown and lack of access to legal materials cons…
21-5254 Baboucar Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. New Hampshire 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal Whether a party is entitled to a new trial for violations of their 5th, 13th, and 14th Amendment rights when the state judge presiding over the case i…
21-5187 Patricia A. McColm v. Trinity County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access disability-accommodation disability-accommodations dismissal-with-prejudice due-process pre-filing-order pro-se Whether pro-se-plaintiffs-with-disabilities-should-receive-accommodations-or-counsel
21-5026 Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure procedural-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying the petitioner's fundamental right to a fair trial
20-8471 Angel Morales v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 due-process petition-clause standing Whether the COVID-19 pandemic and related government orders have unconstitutionally denied access to the courts and the right to petition the governme…
20-1810 Charles Landon Roberson v. Hanesbrands, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection in-forma-pauperis labor-law protected-activity restitution retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the law when the court denied the petitioner's motion to proceed in forma pau…
20-1794 Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches, et al. v. Department of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts chaplain-selection civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause government-neutrality religious-discrimination standing Whether the Navy's grant of unbridled power to reject Non-denominational chaplains to serve as chaplain selection board members violated rulings in Gr…
20-8396 Renee Denise Bell v. Florida Highway Patrol, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-23 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion right-to-petition standing statute-of-limitations Should a mandated order issued by a United States Appeals Court be struck down by a decision of a United States District Court, subjecting a plaintiff…
20-1723 Jane Doe v. James T. DeWees, et al. Maryland 2021-06-14 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights common-law-name constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness privileges-and-immunities standing Do homeless people known by their common-law names and without home addresses have a constitutional right to sue in state courts for remedy of injurie…
20-8271 Jess Howard Kriehn v. Lancer Insurance Nevada 2021-06-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel due-process fee-waiver poll-tax pro-se-litigation state-counsel Should a litigant be denied access to civil courts over monetary restrictions?
20-8250 Nathaniel Howard Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process federal-prisons legal-resources prison-access prisoner-litigation Was the petitioner denied due process of law during the COVID-19 pandemic due to federal prison closures?
20-8163 David Patkins v. Rebecca Piantini California 2021-05-27 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process indigent-litigants judicial-access meaningful-access non-article-iii-proceedings prisoner-rights Whether the right of meaningful access to the courts authorizes certain courts to disregard indigent party requests for available court resources wher…
20-1630 Susan Chen v. Kate Halamay, et al. Washington 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-interpretation legislative-power pro-se-representation separation-of-powers Whether RCW 4.08.050 deprives a minor's constitutional right to counsel and effective representation as well as his right to access the courts
20-1600 Sae Han Sheet Co., Ltd. v. Eastman Performance Films, LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure contract-action dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-sanctions legal-procedure sanctions warnings Whether lower courts must refrain from using the sanction of dismissal unless egregious conduct justifying dismissal is committed in the face of direc…
20-8052 Vicente Quiroz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus systemic-breakdown Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) by the district court, without any meaningful review by the court of appeals, violates due …
20-7997 John Sloan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-care retaliation Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated when he was denied work opportunities, retaliated against for seeking medical care, and denied due…
20-7999 David James Lola v. Miami Herald, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-rights civil-procedure constitutional-access court-procedure dismissal in-forma-pauperis judicial-review national-emergency post-conviction-relief procedural-default reconsideration Whether the clerk's entry of dismissal for failure to prosecute should be set aside and the appellant permitted to proceed to rule on the in forma pau…
20-8006 Antonio Jose Cooks v. Dean Naylor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing Do the plaintiffs have the right to have access to courts to litigate all matters?
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted
20-7850 Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri Missouri 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington Whether the state courts denied due process, equal protection, and access to courts by misapplying Brady v. Maryland, Napue v. Illinois, and Stricklan…
20-1387 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-04-05 Denied 18-usc-241-245-249 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-rights Whether denial of fundamental rights, denial of property rights, and denial of access to courts warrants remedy
20-1353 Allen Glenn Thomas v. Tekle Girma Abebe, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process forgery fraud fraud-claims judicial-procedure property-deed Whether the district/appeals courts erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims, denying him a discovery hearing, and denying him an opportunity to ame…
20-7478 Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendme…
20-7354 In Re Michael Robinson 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct mandamus self-representation Question not identified
20-7358 Mariann Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts assets civil-rights due-process employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of her motion to proceed in forma pauperis
20-1208 Salma Agha-Khan v. Pacific Community Mortgage, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure court-records destruction-of-evidence due-process judicial-misconduct Whether the Ninth Circuit's deliberate destruction of Petitioner's filings violated Petitioner's due process rights
20-1168 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention Whether any standard should guide the courts of appeals' discretion to raise Younger abstention sua sponte
20-1165 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied 35-usc-282 access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process patent-law separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming collateral estoppel without once proving it nor applying Supreme Court precedent dating back more tha…
20-7222 Ian Lamonte Cormier v. Riverside County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-access judicial-review standing Whether petitioner's case can be denied in forma pauperis
20-1102 Michael James Hanna v. Little League Baseball, Inc. California 2021-02-10 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether California's vexatious-litigant-statute unconstitutionally-deprives-a-litigant-of-due-process-and-access-to-the-courts
20-7094 Kenneth Ray Sheffey v. Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illiterate indigent-status legal-representation prisoner-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both legal a…
20-1086 Randall G. Stephens v. Dow Chemical Company Ohio 2021-02-08 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-access due-process impartial-jury judicial-discretion public-trial speedy-trial vexatious-litigator Whether Administrative Judge John J. Russo's, Journal Entry of April 15, 2019 and Judge Brendan J. Sheehan's, Journal Entry of February 26, 2020 denyi…
20-7058 Dwayne Wilson v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mental-health miscarriage-of-justice Question not identified
20-6830 Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fee-waiver indigent-litigant judicial-procedure poverty Whether denying the petitioner a panel of three judges because he was too poor to pay the fees was in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment …
20-6849 Casey Rafael Tyler v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process health-safety inmate-rights institutional-policy prison-conditions Does lawful imprisonment impose a legal duty on the prisoner to try surviving in the general population, so that he can be lawfully ordered to go into…
20-6531 Rogelio May Ruiz v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-04 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection reopening-case standing Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's request for appointed counsel
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court Whether the petitioner has a due process right to have counsel appointed to represent them in a civil matter due to their inability to afford an attor…
20-6522 Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. Terry C. Hamrick, et al. West Virginia 2020-12-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeal-preparation constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process grand-jury grand-jury-transcripts indigent-prisoner transcripts Whether indigent prisoner's constitutional rights were violated by court reporter's denying him access to the grand jury transcripts requested to prep…
20-6497 Andrey Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-power access-to-courts appellate-review civil-forum civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review self-representation When the doors of the Court(s] are willfully, maliciously, and improperly closed to non-influential, self-represented persons
20-6506 Andy Buxton v. Iva C. Dougherty, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-02 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure discovery due-process pro-se-litigant standing Question not identified
20-6488 Mario Allan Montano v. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Michigan 2020-12-01 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-fees due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction by issuing an order dismissing the Petitioner's case and depriving the Petitioner of his …
20-6489 Mario Allan Montano v. Ivy Alice Wimmer Michigan 2020-12-01 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts case-dismissal constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection filing-fees jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing three orders dismissing the Petitioner's cases thus depriving the Petitioner o…
20-6375 Molika Akwo Nweme v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 due-process prison time-extension Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for rehearing due to limited access to the law…
20-611 Robert J. Doyle v. Jacqueline M. Vigilante Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process judicial-procedure procedural-due-process right-to-sue Whether the right to sue, right of access to courts, and procedural due process require a court of appeals to address and resolve every issue raised o…
20-6235 Mario Montano v. Court of Appeals of Michigan Michigan 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts court-sanctions due-process indigent-litigants indigent-rights judicial-abuse judicial-authority legal-merit procedural-fairness sanctions Did the Michigan Supreme Court abuse its authority by sanctioning the indigent Petitioner $1000 payable to the Clerk of the Court that it knew he coul…
20-541 James MacDonald v. Louis E. Kempinsky, et al. California 2020-10-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection petition-for-redress Question not identified
20-6031 Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the United States Court of appeals, 7th Circuit decision denying Petitioner access to the Court and his right to file any motions against such…
20-6002 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts adverse-decision appeals case-seizure criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-law-enforcement pro-se procedural-due-process warrant-search Does Petitioner have a procedural due process right to access the Court and file an initial brief in the appeals court related to the district court's…
20-5968 Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Florida denied petitioner access to the court pursuant Article 1, Section 21 of the Florida Constitution when it declined…
20-5900 Fane R. Sellers, et al. v. Wyoming, et al. Wyoming 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection good-behavior government-accountability judicial-procedure jurisdiction unbiased-judge When the inferior District Court failed and/or refused to initiate or commence the action by issuing the summons as required by Wyoming Rules of Civil…
20-5859 Kevin Blanke v. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole Utah 2020-10-01 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process judicial-review right-to-counsel standing Can a state supreme court or state court of appeals make dispositive rulings on issues in a civil case that were never properly adjudicated in the sta…
20-5755 Joseph Lee Jones v. Google LLC Tenth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech human-rights in-forma-pauperis legal-remedies three-strikes Whether the three strikes provision in 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) violates the right of access to courts, as it is part of the right of petition protected by…
20-5707 Ruth Ellen Reeves v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial institutional-abuse medical-ethics military-intervention patient-rights standing Is it legal for a court to render judgment on a case before the case is heard from the Plaintiff and/or the Defendants?
20-5661 Monty Marcellus Shelton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis standing Whether the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal for failure to pay court fees violated the petitioner's due process rights
20-5671 Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights Is Michigan's statute, MCL 600.2963(8) unconstitutional on its face and/or as applied to this petitioner, as violating the right of access to courts a…
20-5677 In Re Jimmy Wren 2020-09-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus Whether 28 USC §2244 deprives similar-situated-litigants of due-process
20-5517 Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-08-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions Whether due process requires that every statutory element of an aggravating circumstance be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
20-5401 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abstention access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection federal-forum judicial-abstention pro-se-litigation standing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the U.S. District Court's abstention from ruling on Sundy's independent claims despite Su…
20-5350 Jordan Duke Venable v. City of Phoenix, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process prison-mail qualified-immunity Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims that prison officials violated his constitutiona…
20-98 Thomas Wood, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Philip Talmadge Wood v. The Boeing Co. District of Columbia 2020-07-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure convenience discretion forum-non-conveniens international-litigation judicial-discretion material-injustice positive-evidence Whether dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds is improper as a matter of law unless a district court affirmatively finds, based on 'positive evide…
20-5146 Douglas Harry Warenback v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts case-law certificate-of-appealability court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review Has the Circuit Court violated my first Amendment right to access the courts by failing to provide any evidence that my request for certificate of app…
20-5130 Antonio Lozano Solis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts appeal-review civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Was petitioner denied meaningful access to the court?
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-20 Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
20-5052 Jeremy E. Lewis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights due-process frivolous-filings habeas-corpus immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen standing statutory-interpretation Whether Lewis has a constitutional right to petition the courts under the double precedent of 'California Motor Transp. v. Trucking Unlimited, 404 U.S…
19-1387 Waseem Daker v. Theodore Jackson, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act religious-exercise three-strikes three-strikes-provision Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act 'three-strikes' provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), is unconstitutional as applied to deny a prisoner access to c…
19-8575 In Re Andrew Robinson 2020-06-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus jurisdiction-claims Does State and Federal law allow jurisdiction claims to be made at anytime?
19-1317 Efrain Areizaga v. ADW Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hobbs-act mediation-confidentiality retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States court of appeals affirm a decision that exceeds their authority and lacks subject matter jurisdiction
19-8531 Marc Pierre Hall v. M. Inch, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-22 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights deprivation due-process fundamental-rights standing Whether the petitioner's access to the courts to seek redress for the deprivation of his basic fundamental rights was denied in violation of due proce…
19-8505 George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying Appellant George Tolbert's motion to proceed in forma pauperis
19-8481 Ronald D. Veteto v. Dewayne Estes, Warden, et al. Alabama 2020-05-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions Was the petitioner denied meaningful and effective access to the Alabama courts?
19-8462 Juan F. Perez v. Julie L. Jones, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-review legal-expertise legal-filing procedural-error standing Can the fact that the defendants' actions resulted in a deprivation of federal constitutional guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment be consi…
19-8384 In Re Levon Spaulding 2020-05-01 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process federal-action free-speech institutional-conditions legal-assistance prisoner-rights standing takings Question not identified.
19-1251 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts appeal appeals civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process employment equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment official-discrimination school-district Whether School District of Philadelphia discharged the petitioner from his teaching position without due process of law
19-8363 Daniel R. McClain v. Kenneth Sharp, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel post-conviction-relief prison-conditions Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to the deprivation of adequate access to the courts and lack of properly trained lega…
19-8329 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights competency constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-procedure psychiatric-evaluation standing Is it unconstitutional that no Article III District Court Judge has been assigned to this case?
19-1243 Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing Whether trial court deprived petitioner of constitutional rights
19-1237 LeRoy K. Wheeler v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access court-access due-process judicial-bias judicial-review legal-prejudice meritorious-claims prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-prisoner Do poor pro-se prisoners have a constitutional right to access the courts and to justice that will compel courts to rule on the merits of valid consti…
19-8293 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot…
19-8230 Alexander Kates v. New York New York 2020-04-09 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement property-return prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity Whether a plea agreement to return illegally seized property in exchange for a guilty plea, induced by the prosecutor, is breached when the prosecutio…
19-8214 Howard Atkins v. Georgia Crowell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his motion to proceed in forma pauperis without considering h…
19-1202 Thomas Taffe, et al. v. First National Bank of Alaska Alaska 2020-04-08 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial legal-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment systemic-bias Did a systemic bias against pro se litigants lead to the unconstitutional denial of Petitioners' right to a jury trial in this case?
19-8198 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-circuit injunction standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unpublished opinion and judgment issued on February 26, 2020 is defective
19-8157 Brian Richardson v. Joshua Moore Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies when the petitioner was denied the…
19-8134 James Ricky Ezell v. Damon Hininger, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-remedies pro-se-plaintiff retaliation Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider denying of plaintiff, prisoner in custody of Department of Corrections, housed in private priso…
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…
19-8102 In Re Marquise White 2020-03-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights clerk-error court-access court-clerk-error district-court-power due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules state-statutory-rules statutory-rules Does a district court have the power to deny a Petitioner access to the court based on any such state statutory rules of evidence or even procedural r…
19-1140 In Re Wesley Perkins 2020-03-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction recusal statutory-construction access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process probation-revocation standing statutory-construction texas-code-of-criminal-procedure Is TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 42A.755(e) unconstitutional, as applied?
19-7995 Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Magoon Estates Limited, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts article-3-court civil-procedure district-court due-process filing-fee in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights related-cases standing Did the federal article 3 court or United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, in Honolulu err/error or breach its own order failing to a…
19-8008 Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights Does the policy in 6.0.8 violate a federal prisoner's First Amendment right to reasonable access to the courts, where the policy allows only one hour …
19-7959 John Tedesco v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process grievance-process injunctive-relief personal-involvement retaliation Was the plaintiff entitled to injunctive relief?
19-7953 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California 2020-03-11 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process patent standing takings waiver-of-fees Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims
19-7967 Kenneth Durant v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights filing-deadlines habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy procedural-due-process right-to-counsel tolling Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of trial counsel and appellate counsel, and whether the petitioner was denied access to the cou…
19-7921 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. Superior Court of California, Monterey County Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-bias recusal vexatious-litigant void-judgment Is it contrary to clearly established laws for an attorney to knowingly use court cases that were never filed or commenced, or maintained to use as ex…
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief Whether a state-created delay of uninformed notification that a second amended (corrected sentencing) judgment of conviction had become final and ripe…
19-7895 David Dwayne Brown v. Florida Florida 2020-03-06 Denied IFP access-to-court-rights appellate-court-orders civil-procedure due-process pro-se-petitions state-appellate-courts access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-petitions state-courts Whether the constitutional right of access to court is violated when a state appellate court does not issue a show cause order before holding pro se p…
19-7901 Thomas Powers v. Travis Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing access-to-courts civil-rights detention due-process filing-fees indigency Whether an indigent civil detainee is denied access to the court due to inability to pay filing fees
19-7871 In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson 2020-03-04 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing Whether the jurisdictional requirements under 28 USC §§ 1331, 1332, 1343, 1367, 2072, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were met, and whether t…
19-7768 Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the jury…
19-7702 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-retaliation court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation retaliation retaliation-claims standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court decisions conflict with the formulation describing retaliation claims within the U.S. Circui…
19-7683 Marlon Blacher v. California California 2020-02-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal arbitrarily-denied civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion resentencing standing state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the arbitrary denial of an evidentiary hearing on a petition for writ of habeas corpus deprives the petitioner of due process
19-7672 Donte Deshawn Alston v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Relisted (4)IFP access-to-courts due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule pro-se second-or-successive Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process
19-7483 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts
19-7425 Wylmina Louemna Hettinga v. Arcadia Management Services Co. California 2020-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection insurmountable-security legal-remedy security-deposit standing takings vexatious-litigant Is the imposition of insurmountable security on a California Vexatious Litigant a violation of the Equal Protection or Due Process rights?
19-7281 Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. District of Columbia 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasoning o…
19-7211 Joseph A. Brown v. Dr. Sage, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation standing Whether the disposition in Brown v. Kemmerer, U.S.D.C. Del. Civ. No. 13-cv-0138, qualifies as a strike for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g)
19-7196 Mark D. Zimmerman v. Texas Texas 2020-01-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process incarceration judicial-discretion legal-resources pro-se standing state-courts supervisory-power Whether the lower state court erred in sanctioning the petitioner's departure from the accepted judicial proceedings regarding the decision governing …
19-7166 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-01-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts age-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial pro-se standing Were the petitioner's due process rights denied because she is a 47-year-old, female pro se litigant?
19-7122 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-12-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing takings Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed his petition for writ of habeas corpus
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Whether non-capital habeas corpus petitioners in the Eleventh Circuit are being treated so fundamentally differently than similarly situated prisoners…
19-7029 In Re Paul Fahring 2019-12-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prison-law-library prison-litigation pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing Whether an inmate has access to the state courts to address his constitutional issues in a guaranteed proceeding
19-6970 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct Was Sullivan deprived of his Constitutional rights?
19-775 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appeal appeal-rights bias constitution constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause-of-the-14th-amendment equal-protection federal-court foreign-litigant judicial-bias prejudice pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation Whether the Federal court has the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
19-6879 Salim Abdul-Malik v. City Government Office of Court Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-accessibility due-process immigration-procedures judicial-reform pleading-standards prisoner-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation state-action What is the proper treatment of pro se litigants in the federal court system to ensure their constitutional and judicially-recognized rights to a fair…
19-713 Paul E. Nunu v. Nancy Nunu Risk, et al. Texas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abridged Petitioner's First-Amendment-right-to-pe as applied access-to-courts citizens-united-v-fec contempt court-access first-amendment petition-clause prior-restraint pro-se vexatious-litigant Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Texas…
19-6854 In Re Alexander Palomarez 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights prisoner-rights standing state-court-review suppression-of-evidence Whether the 'prison mailbox rule' announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 101 L. Ed. 2d 245, 108 S. Ct. 2379 (1988) should be applied to this case…
19-6763 Anthony D. White v. Florida Florida 2019-11-26 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process hearsay judicial-misconduct judicial-obstruction open-courts pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials Whether it is constitutionally lawful to deny a pro se litigant access to the courts when obstructed by state officials
19-663 Robert J. Wilson v. State Bar of Texas Texas 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts constitutional-rights dent-v-west-virginia disbarment disciplinary-procedure due-process governmental-immunity in-re-ruffalo legal-ethics state-bar Can the State Bar of Texas disbar one of its members without affording him due process of law?
19-6579 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights copyright criminal-procedure due-process habitual-felon habitual-offenders in-forma-pauperis legal-publication punitive-law standing statutory-law Are pro-se petitioners entitled to Supreme Court leave to proceed as pauper in 55/983 complaint, when circuit court cited only (2) frivolous dismissal…
19-6593 Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights to prevent the Petitioner from filing a lawsuit against the Respondent(s)
19-6563 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process federal-courts in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity ministerial-duty standing state-court Whether federal citizens have standing when federal courts ignore their claims
19-6556 In Re Therian Wimbush, et vir 2019-11-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus joint-petition judicial-review petition-denial procedural-barriers standing Whether co-convicted, co-tried, co-convicted and sentenced, even though the same co-defendant husband and wife, can file a joint federal 28 U.S.C. 225…
19-6516 Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to comply with heightened pleading standards
19-6529 James Tyson, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance rule-6-motion sealing-orders standing transparency Was the district court's denial of Petitioner's Rule 6 motion to unseal documents a denial of Petitioner's due-process rights?
19-6459 Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 5th and 14th Amendment Rig…
19-6441 In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception under the Carrier standard
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation Question not identified
19-6388 Cary VanDerMeulen v. Charles L. Ryan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection judicial-access judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process remedies rights-enforcement standing Why is a citizen not allowed to bring a valid claim (claims) for civil rights violations before the court and have them heard?
19-6245 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether incarcerated pro se litigants' custody, parental rights, property, and financial matters are at issue in a bona fide civil action seeking acce…
19-6212 Melissa Edwards v. Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-investigation attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process disability-rights due-process equal-protection government-transparency judicial-review judicial-transparency standing state-court-procedure Is it unconstitutional for a state court to deny relief without explaining why relief was denied?
19-443 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant Whether the use of vexatious litigant laws to punish an individual and preclude access to the courts, resulting in excessive fines and cruel and unusu…
19-6047 Happy Stompingbear v. Sergeant Brown, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-access legal-remedy legal-work petition-review standing takings Was the taking of my legal work a violation of my access to the Courts?
19-5950 Roberto Medina-Martinez v. Arizona Arizona 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation motion-to-change-counsel right-to-counsel self-representation standing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's request to represent himself and forcing him to be represented by court-appointed counsel against his …
19-5800 Darren Denson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-04 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was denied access to legal materials and s…
19-5715 Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Texas Texas 2019-08-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts competent-counsel constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-post-conviction Whether the appointment by a convicting court of a lawyer, who was not competent to represent the indigent, death-sentenced prisoner at any stage of t…
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 …
19-206 In Re Melba L. Ford 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explanati…
19-5584 Christopher Isaac Simmons v. Grissom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-waiver due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-rights standing vexatious-litigant Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly revoke Appellant's In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g) where a 'high risk' prisoner clearly mad…
19-5511 Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of a civil case by a district court for lack of jurisdiction over an incarcerated petitioner violates the Eighth Amendment's pro…
19-5495 David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing Whether petitioner's civil rights were violated when his in forma pauperis application was denied, resulting in the dismissal of his civil rights laws…
19-5386 David Charles Sussman v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-07-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process habeas-corpus legal-representation prison-discipline right-to-counsel suspension-clause Whether a trial court violates the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution by requiring a prison inmate to secure or pay for an attorney to file a …
19-5405 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights dismissal-order due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus pro-se-litigation sanctions sovereign-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims against the United States government and its officials, in violation of the pet…
19-5364 In Re Carl A. Courtright, III 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in ordering a $500 sanction against a pro se indigent petitioner?
19-5329 James Lester Williams, Jr. v. Jamai F. Samuels Florida 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law-dispute petition-for-redress pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether Florida's Appellate Court(s) denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Petition's for Appeal, without any judicial reasoning or analysis to…
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants?
19-5160 Jamie D. Geer v. Florida Florida 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal appeal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prison-officials prisoner-rights Whether petitioner was denied due process, equal protection of the law, and right to access to the courts
19-5148 Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standing procedural-irregularities standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5135 Joseph Ballard v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts automatic-stay centralized-inmate-banking dismissal due-process equal-protection meaningful-access-to-courts prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-automatic-stay Is Louisiana obligated to implement and maintain a Centralized Inmate Banking System?
19-5099 James Thompson v. Florida Florida 2019-07-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court fraud per-curiam-affirmance supreme-court-jurisdiction unelaborated-affirmance Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the district courts of appeal issu…
19-5088 Quancidine Hinson-Gribble v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Why was the case dismissed?
19-5054 Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction Whether Hendershott was improperly denied time-credit for turning in his 2854 year old prison authorities to mail months before his deadline
19-5042 Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's claim of denying access to the court and equal protection of law and due process under the Fo…
19-5017 Shanta Phillips-Berry v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the petitioner a fair trial by jury and the opportunity to present evidence against the re…
18-9777 Earnest S. Harris v. E. McCumsey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Did respondent E. M'Cummsey, Senior Law Librarian at SMU, deny petitioner Earnest S. Ware access to the court?
18A1338 Robert Chester v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights indigent-prisoner legal-research prison-law-library pro-se-litigation Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when restricted access to a prison law library substantially impedes preparation of …
18A1312 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-default writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional right to meaningful access to courts is violated when procedural requirements effectively obstruct his abil…
18A1282 Ronny Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete access-to-courts extension-of-time prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted due to institutional lockdown and limited a…
18-9513 Rhonda Reid v. Walter Donnelly, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination sentencing standing Why did the trial judge, Meares, decide on my case under OCGA 16-11-37(b), why didn't he provide me a hearing, why did he fail to allow me to present …
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-9550 Jerome L. Grimes v. Avis Budget Group Third Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process framed-up pro-se-plaintiff sixth-amendment standing statute-of-limitation theft Whether a plausible claim for relief was asserted in the plaintiff's amended complaint, and whether tolling the statutes of limitation to file and/or …
18-9488 Nasedra K. Lumpkin v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-court procedural-default standing Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process clause requires a hearing before dismissal of a civil complaint for failure to prosecute
18-1472 In Re Christopher Hadsell 2019-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt…
18-9421 In Re Ronald D. Veteto 2019-05-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-penalty civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-misconduct due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-petition notice-pleading prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights sanctions Whether the district court and Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Veteto's civil rights claims and petitions for mandamus relief
18-9331 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US…
18-9334 In Re Phillip S. Grigalanz 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-process appellate-process civil-rights due-process prisoner-rights state-action state-actors unlawful-interference writ-of-certiorari Do State actors possess an inherent responsibility to protect a prisoner's right of access to process against unlawful interference?
18-9314 Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court Was the District Court Judge's liberal construction of the pro se pleadings a denial of access to the courts?
18-9179 Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First-Amendment, Fourth-Amendment, Eighth…
18-1387 Susan Lloyd v. Becky Doherty, Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts ada ada-violations civil-rights courtroom-access disability-rights discrimination judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rehab-act service-dogs sunshine-law transcript-alteration Is a magistrate and judge allowed to refuse well behaved service dogs in a courtroom?
18-9122 Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey applies to denial of access to court claims?
18-9136 J.T., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-cases dependency-cases due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest indigent-population parental-rights Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the District Court of Appeal issue…
18-9113 Glen Moore v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP access-to-courts double-jeopardy due-process liberty-interests parole parole-revocation retroactive-law retroactive-punishment standing Do Texas Board of Parole have the constitutional authority to change laws or to take away a prisoner's liberty interests without due process of law?
18-9054 Sandra Forquer v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Maryland 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts court-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection legal-remedy maryland-court-of-appeals replevin replevin-action writ-of-certiorari Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petition for Writ of Certiorari regarding the improper dismissal of the Petitioner's Verifi…
18-9024 Michael J. Littles v. Florida Florida 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction standing Whether the court has a duty to review each case impartially, and whether the court's failure to do so violates the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-8966 Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant Whether the denial of a pro se litigant's right to access the courts through vexatious litigant laws and rulings violates the petitioner's constitutio…
18-8940 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions retaliation standing Should pro se defendants be granted in forma pauperis status in criminal cases, given that the second copy of the record on appeal was intentionally l…
18-8882 Kevin L. Donaldson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability civil-rights clerk-of-court clerk-of-court-error district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment government-liability standing Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
18-1310 Charmaine Clement v. Thomas Durban, et al. New York 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts burden-on-access civil-procedure constitutional-law court-access discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights non-resident-discrimination privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause residency-requirements standard-of-review state-courts Whether Article 85 is consistent with the Privileges and Immunities Clause despite its discrimination against nonresidents of New York and the materia…
18-1314 Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether Texas courts would hold a smartphone manufacturer liable for injuries and deaths caused by a driver distracted by the manufacturer's smartphon…
18-8838 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process due-process-clauses federal-tort-claims-act in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity standing Whether, When, and to What extent raised therefor, a civil action is commenced
18-8841 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access due-process due-process-clause employment-discrimination federal-employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff property-right retaliation title-vii-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause provides heightened protection for a property right of action vested upon filing an in forma pauperis complaint allegin…
18-8790 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2019-04-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access judicial-power mandamus mandate recall-mandate Is mandamus the appropriate remedy to compel a circuit court clerk to accept, file, and submit a motion to recall the court's prior mandate?
18-8721 Kelvin Reed v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts equal-protection error-coram-nobis poverty racial-discrimination Does Tennessee's Error Coram Nobis procedure discriminate against blacks and the poor, violating their constitutional rights?
18-8648 Undraneckio Brassfield v. Ron King, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendants standing Whether indigent petitioners have a constitutional right to access the courts by way of being granted in forma pauperis status as a matter of law?
18-8580 Sidney Marts, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process sanctions standing Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in upholding sanctions against the petitioner that violated his due process rights under the 14th Amendment
18-8552 Herman Gaines v. Brad Busnardo, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-treatment procedural-rights standing statutory-provisions Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due-process by declining to consider the petitioner's claim that t…
18-8444 Primo C. Novero v. Duke Energy Florida, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims document-delivery due-process equal-access equal-protection right-to-jury-trial right-to-petition rules-of-court standing trial-by-jury Does the district court erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 due process in defining 'time…
18-8461 Arther Lee Williamson v. Tyrie W. Boyer, Judge, Circuit Court of Florida, 4th Judicial Circuit Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals ACCA/Appellant failed to properly review the District Court's decision to deny the Appellant further leave to amend …
18-8465 Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor Are Bankruptcy Judges dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause?
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain from hearing First Amendment challenges seeking access to state court filings
18-8422 Johnny M. Young v. Alabama Alabama 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-law standing state-courts supremacy-clause Whether denial of in forma pauperis by the Alabama Supreme Court is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court precedent on federal rights of ac…
18-8192 James Anthony Barnett, Jr. v. Alamance County Sheriff Office Detention Center, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights compassionate-release due-process federal-courts first-amendment prison-conditions standing Did the United States District Courts of North Carolina unlawfully deny petitioner's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
18-8203 Darryl Burghardt v. Renee Stein-Graham Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se service-of-process standing Whether a petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights are violated if their civil action is dismissed due to the U.S. Marshal's …
18-8150 Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa…
18-8157 James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness Is a constitutional right of access to the courts being denied when a fraud on a state court decision is used to prove untimeliness when federal court…
18-8158 Jerry Anderson, II v. Rex Miller, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-error standing Whether the lower court's decision to dismiss the petitioner's claim with prejudice without affording the petitioner an opportunity to offer evidence …
18-8088 Steve Lee Menius v. Michael Stephan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-response civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-system due-process free-speech grievance-procedure grievance-process inmate-rights prison-litigation-reform-act retaliation standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims due to failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison…
18-8105 Alicja Herriott v. Paul Herriott California 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-overbreadth discrimination due-process first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-petition overbreadth petition-rights privileges-immunities standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statute Is the statutory law prohibiting the arbitrary selected litigants petition to court discriminatory under Be & K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 51…
18-1087 Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could find…
18-8072 John J. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process pro-se-representation sixth-amendment transcripts Can appellate counsel be denied, forcing a criminal defendant to represent himself in a direct appeal to the state district courts of appeal?
18-8000 Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals precedent in Dodds v. United States and Atkins v. United States, denying equitable tolling to a pro-se i…
18-1041 Frances K. Konieczko, et al. v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc., et al. Florida 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice parties processes Denial of right to be heard
18-7852 Donald Hug v. T. J. Conley, Warden Georgia 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-review freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-authority prison-policies prisoners-rights statute-of-limitations time-limits Whether prison officials have the authority to prevent (deny) pro se prisoners from getting their legal documents notarized until it is too late to fi…
18-7854 Josiaha R. Wills v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts accessibility civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process language language-rights standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lack of effective communication accommodations during legal proceedings
18-7831 Curt Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing Should a circuit court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to correct an illegal sentence after the petitioner has been barred from that co…
18-7832 Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe…
18-1014 In Re Rex E. Russo 2019-02-06 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-right due-process equal-protection equal-rights florida-constitution judicial-administration judicial-records judicial-transparency mandamus public-records public-records-access public-records-access,judicial-transparency,equal-protection,due-process,mandamus,florida-constitution
18-7749 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy Florida 2019-02-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay denied Petitioner access for certiorari review
18-7673 In Re Roda Hiramanek 2019-01-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection federal-court-procedure judicial-interference judicial-misconduct standing Question not identified
18-7592 Zane Hubbard v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process fair-procedure government-action judicial-review legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government's denial of Petitioner's request for a letter of recommendation violates the Constitution by denying the Petitioner's right to …
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…
18-7408 Stephen Daniel Leonard v. George Washington University Hospital, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process effective-remedy equal-protection standing takings Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner's appointment of counsel
18-7433 Hamid R. Ardaneh v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review pro-se-petition refugee-rights refugee-status Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin
18-7366 Frederick Gray v. Patricia Sorrels, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions Whether the petitioner should be granted remedial relief regarding the denial of his motion for the appointment of competent counsel presented in Appe…
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) states a claim for violation of the First, F…
18-7175 Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts california-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the ALLS role complies with the First Amendment and due process rights of individuals seeking access to the courts
18-7171 Zuri Sana Kabisa Young v. M. Voong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP access-to-courts bias civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process pleadings standing Whether the courts constitute a success in stating a cognizable claim for relief when a plaintiff has failed to satisfy a claim's elements, as require…
18-7090 Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhauf v. Holder, Bankers Life and Casualty Co.…
18-7059 John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's due process rights and access to the courts
18-7064 Thomas W. Mackenzie v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis incarceration indigent-status legal-materials legal-proceeding poverty prison-law-library redress Whether the Florida Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying him access to the courts and legal materials
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
18-6996 Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Was the petitioner denied his substantial rights to access to the courts, due process, and equal protection, when the United States Court of Appeals f…
18-6998 George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith civil-appeal civil-rights court-of-appeals direct-appeal docket-fee docket-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant indigent-litigants pro-se-litigation south-carolina Whether Bounds v. Smith 430 U.S. 817 97 S.Ct. 1491 (1977) requires the waiver of the docket fee in a civil on direct appeal to Indigent litigants who …
18-6892 Joseph C. Garcia v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts compounding-pharmacy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,access-to-courts,preliminary-inju execution-drug preliminary-injunction safety-violations standing Whether the State of Texas impeded a condemned prisoner from succeeding on an Eighth Amendment challenge by refusing to provide readily available info…
18-709 Maria Bentley, et al. v. Victoria Vooys, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law cost-bond due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause judicial-procedure non-resident-plaintiff privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause rational-basis-review security-bond virgin-islands Whether a statute requiring a non-resident plaintiff to post a security bond for costs violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause or the Equal Prot…
18-6878 Shomari Salim Daley v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Why Flavors ed Beon gisen Me Hugh fo a. Farr, Spesdly and) Tevey Total) en Ynis Cote 277
18-691 Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. Missouri 2018-11-27 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees …
18-6717 Lei Yin v. Thermo Fisher Scientific First Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court-rules federal-courts judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-rights standing summons summons-issuance Whether a pro se litigant shall share the same rights as those represented by lawyers that are protected by the United States Constitution
18-6658 Ronald D. Veteto v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Alabama 2018-11-13 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se standing Whether a State may arbitrarily deny an indigent pro se prisoner effective and meaningful access to the courts?
18-6614 Willie Rose v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-violations court-records-access due-process elkins-v-united-states equal-protection exhaustion-of-state-remedies exhaustion-requirements griffin-v-illinois ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-accountability judicial-misconduct legal-documents reasonable-bail speedy-trial state-remedies Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should set precedence to clarify and guide the lower courts on how to proceed when faced with the situation in this cas…
18-6634 Leandro Leonel Gonzalez v. F. Armenta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech Is there a right to have-a-witness in the Due-Proc mail-communication prisoner-rights witness-testimony Is there a right to outgoing mail in the First Amendment?
18-6645 Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing Do the district court's failure to state reasons for certifying lack of good faith, failure to dismiss as frivolous, and failure to allow amendment am…
18-6503 Thomas P. Richard, Sr. v. District Attorney of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prohibited-punishment section-1983 standing structural-error Did the Courts below commit structural error by usurping Law to improperly re-characterize a Class Action §1983 Complaint as Habeas Corpus
18-6523 Renee D. Bell v. Orlando Health, Inc., dba Winnie Palmer Hospital Florida 2018-10-31 Dismissed IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-procedure-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection pre-trial-conference procedural-due-process procedural-rights right-to-redress substantive-rights Whether dismissal based on failure to meet a pre-trial conference is a drastic action, and where court access is barred prior to the dismissal that th…
18-6506 Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires…
18-6452 Alan Bartlett v. State Bar of California, et al. California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech due-process free-speech mandatory-bar professional-conduct standing Whether the State Bar of California deprived the petitioner of due process by failing to investigate his complaints against attorneys
18-6368 Dean Edward Calhoun v. Texas Texas 2018-10-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection evidence standing state-law texas-criminal-justice Whether the Texas criminal justice system violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying them due process, equal protection, and access to…
18-6268 Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure Whether the Georgia Supreme Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's application for certificate of probable cause because the Petitioner did not fi…
18-6263 Ilich Vargas v. John McMahon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-complaint constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pleading pro-se-litigant recusal screening section-1983 standing Whether a district court judge and a magistrate conducting a 28 U.S.C. § 1915 IFP screening acted on an excess of discretion and beyond the limits of …
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…
18-412 Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. Virginia 2018-10-02 Denied access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appeal without reaching the merits of the case violates the Petitioner's fundamenta…
18-6172 Sherman Edward Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior-precedent rule violates due process when applied to orders denying second or successive habeas petitions
18-344 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2018-09-17 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts american-inns-of-court attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest court-of-appeal due-process judge-disclosure judicial-ethics recusal right-to-appeal social-relationship Does due process require reversal of dismissals due to judge's failure to recuse or disclose conflicts of interest
18-5974 Levon Spaulding v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2018-09-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech qualified-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their civil rights, due process, and free speech rights
18-5958 Kevin Wilmot v. Florida Florida 2018-09-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing Can the State of Florida Violate State and Federal Constitutional Amendments and Provisions That Are Guaranteed Because the Prisoner is Poor and Canno…
18-5852 In Re Sontay T. Smotherman 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Whether the court below erred in denying petitioners' access to the courts
18-5862 Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing Whether a prisoner has a constitutional right of access to the courts to litigate civil claims unrelated to his/her sentence or conviction?
18-258 Hatem El-Khalidi v. Arabian American Development Company Texas 2018-08-29 Denied Response Waived access-to-court access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection disability-rights due-process standing title-ii Must a person conclusively establish the limitations caused by a disability to invoke the protection of the constitutional right of access to court pr…
18-239 Arick Justin Rinaldo v. Bryan Mahan, et al. Colorado 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-supreme-court-rules court-access due-process equal-protection filing-system pro-se pro-se-litigant structural-error Whether the deprivation of access to Colorado's ICCES filing system for pro se litigants caused reversible structural error and discriminated against …
18-5721 Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling Whether a Spanish-speaking U.S. citizen prisoner must prove he sought legal advice from fellow inmates lacking legal training to establish diligence f…
18-5688 Joseph Emanuel v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights consent-to-collection-of-fee-form constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fee-collection in-forma-pauperis proceedings-in-forma-pauperis Is a 'consent to collection of fee form' that is not an inmate account form or an inmate trust-fund account statement (or institutional equivalent) co…
18-5451 Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sua sponte dismissing the plaintiff's appeal for non-payment of filing fees when the plaintiff lac…
18-5425 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. New York 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing Whether the New Mexico state bail law as applied ($30.42) to a bill of rights violation, purposely keeping a recluse out of the court process in viola…
18-5358 Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment Whether the district court improperly decided disputed factual issues and dismissed the case with prejudice, and whether the Sixth Circuit Court impro…
18-5340 Roger Wilson v. Federal Correctional Institution at Cumberland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-rules-standing-jurisdiction-due-p access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Whether the court erred in refusing to allow the petitioner to file a copy of the order denying his appeal
18-5342 Roger Wilson v. Delta Airlines, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-delay judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing whether-the-year-long-delay-in-the-court-issuing-a-decision-on-petitioner's-case-violated-due-process
18-5334 Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result
18-5254 Matthew Young v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Oregon 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Whether the Oregon courts failed to properly apply precedent case law regarding the proper mechanism for judicial review of a lower court's decision o…
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Inmate-trust-fund-management
18-41 Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray Florida 2018-07-06 Denied access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether Florida Supreme Court has authority to dismiss petition by unrepresented party to review orders and impede sought relief for bodily injuries, …
18-5140 M. P. F. v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to obtain trial transcripts to perfect an appeal
18-5049 Leroy Lamont Wells v. Collette Peters, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction opinions standing takings Leroy Lamont Wells v. Colleen TC Peters
18-5024 William Robert Dixon v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies illegal-sentencing jurisdiction standing Does violation of right to access the court measure constitutional violation?
18-5032 Ramon Vasquez v. City of Reading, Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-06-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process filing-deadlines habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-discretion nunc-pro-tunc prisoner-filing pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the state Supreme Court's decision to deny Vasquez's petition for Allowance of Appeal 'Nunc Pro Tunc' conflicts with the Supreme Court's prece…
25A800 Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Application access-to-courts ada-access disability-accommodation judicial-review jurisdictional-defects procedural-irregularities Question not identified.
25A249 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit Application access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-restraint pre-emptive-injunction Whether a state court's pre-emptive injunction barring a litigant from filing future lawsuits violates the constitutional right of access to courts