appellate-process

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A589 Humphrey Daniels, III v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-18 Application appellate-process fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct hazel-atlas-doctrine judicial-supervision structural-conflict Whether a government-induced structural conflict that was never disclosed to a tribunal constitutes fraud on the court requiring judicial supervisory …
24A137 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete appellate-process extension-of-time incarceration pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted due to unique incarceration c…
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to engage in the COA process
23-7178 Shawn Titus v. Donald L. Schense Nebraska 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment appellate-process due-process equal-access expert-affidavit legal-malpractice seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury Could the trial court deprive petitioner of his 7th Amendment right to a trial by granting summary judgment based solely upon the defendant-expert's c…
23-6208 Pleadro J. Scott v. Miami Dade County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP advocacy appellate-process appellate-review case-law civil-procedure court-procedure discretion due-process incomplete-record judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-construction Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to exercise its discretion to consider additional advocacy from a party, where the judgment was based on…
23-5307 Curt Daniel Crowder v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-process appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance remedy right-to-counsel right-to-present-witnesses trial-procedure trial-process When a citizen is deprived of the right to present witnesses in his defense, and effective assistance of counsel, in both the trial and appellate proc…
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…
22-5659 Donovan Moenell Williams v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-process case-jurisdiction civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-filing scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court's interpretation of the statutory provision is correct
21-5860 Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction Whether the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments protect inmates from an allegedly faulty appellate process due to ineffective counsel
20-6530 Jamel Mobley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-preservation appellate-process constitutional-ineffectiveness fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel can be constitutionally ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) for failing to preserve an issue for pur…
19-7611 D'Marlo Levonne Faulk Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appeal-process appellate-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 6th Amendment right to counsel extends to the appellate process and requires the effective assistance of counsel when petitioner's attorne…
19-6259 Keino S. Chrichlow v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied IFP abandonment-of-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing whether-an-indigent-defendant-is-entitled-to-equitable-toll-where-he-was-denied-the-right-to-challenge-his-sentence-and-convictions-by-way-of-direct-a…
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?
18-45 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied appellate-process civil-procedure-subpoena civil-rights due-process federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-discretion marbury-v-madison pecuniary-interest standing subpoena subpoena-violation Whether Petitioner's case relating to Federal Judge violating the subpoena issue allows him to by-pass the appellate process to petition the Supreme C…