cognitive-impairment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A726 Orna Shaposhnik v. Quality Loan Service Corp., et al. California 2025-12-19 Application ada-accommodations cognitive-impairment jurisdictional-extension pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process supreme-court-procedure Whether a pro se litigant with documented cognitive and neurological impairments is entitled to reasonable accommodations and an extension of time to …
24-7131 Kevin Michael Cardwell v. Paul David Bojrab, M.D., et al. Indiana 2025-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-USC-1985 attorney-appointment cognitive-impairment conspiracy constitutional-violation sex-offender-rights Whether individuals convicted of sex offenses constitute a protected class under U.S.C. 1985(3) when their constitutional rights are allegedly violate…
22-7424 Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Florida Florida 2023-05-01 Denied IFP age-of-culpability cognitive-deficits cognitive-impairment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-age neuropsychological-disorder state-constitutional-law Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of individuals with severe neuropsychological disorders, lifelong cognitive deficits, and low men…
20-6772 Christopher J. Spreitz v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP cognitive-impairment ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-mitigating-factor trial-counsel When must the court of appeals remand to a court of first instance for application of this Court's intervening decision in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. …
19-6557 Steven Nygren v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 Whether a defendant's purported malingering during forensic evaluations to assess competency to stand trial, when the defendant had a medically docume…
19-5646 Brian Caputo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-capacity cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process knowing-intelligent-waiver mental-capacity neurological-impairment neurology plea-agreement Does a defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently enter into a plea agreement where he is neurologically incapable of understanding the futur…
18-6081 Manuel Enrique Camacho v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency psychiatric-evaluation psychiatric-report Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to determine if Mr. Camacho was competent to enter a guilty plea