circuit-court-discretion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6112 Luke Masood Arabzadegan v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court-discretion criminal-case filing-fee judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act 1. HAS THE 05TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ALLEGEDLY ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION, BY DEMANDING PETITIONER PAY THE PRISON LITIGATION REFORM ACT'S FILING FEE,…
22-6262 Babubhai Patel v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default procedural-due-process rosemond-v-united-states savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
20-5624 Juan Francisco Vega v. Chad Poppell, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Dismissed IFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-discretion extraordinary-circumstances false-imprisonment habeas-corpus sexually-violent-predator successive-petitions whether-jurists-could-debate-abuse-of-discretion
19-8290 Robert Taylor v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure procedural-due-process standing Did The Circuit Court Abuse Its Discretion?
19-8162 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-discretion due-process judicial-precedent mandate mandate-recall post-judgment-relief recall seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the Supreme Court of the United States binding precedent case law…
19-5241 Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me…
18-7504 Raphael R. Hamilton v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP circuit-court-discretion coercion competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue right-to-withdraw standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not reversing the trial court's order denying petitioner his right to withdrawal of the guilty ple…
18-6561 In Re Jesus Denova Lopez 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by the rubberstamp of the erroneous and impermissible conclusion of erst…