conditions-of-confinement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A1035 | Huy Trong Tran v. Brian Cates, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-25 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conditions-of-confinement educational-access habeas-corpus section-2254 | Whether a state prisoner's pursuit of educational courses through community college programs while incarcerated constitutes a cognizable federal habea… | |
| 24-6816 | Joshua Gary Anderson v. Fernando Garza, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conditions-of-confinement constitutional-suspension due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus writ-of-habeas | Whether a Federal court's refusal to permit a prisoner from challenging their conditions of confinement via a writ of habeas violates the Fifth Amendm… |
| 24A352 | Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Presumed Complete | 42-usc-1983 conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee suicide-prevention | Whether a county jail can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a pre-trial detainee's suicide when the jail's suicide prevention policies were no… | |
| 24A354 | Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Presumed Complete | conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights | Whether a prison's conditions of confinement and alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's medical needs constitute a violation of the Eighth Am… | |
| 23A182 | Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus jurisdiction extends to allow federal courts to adjudicate an inmate's claims challenging the constitutionality… | |
| 23-7 | Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 | Whether the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with diabetes and open wounds to endure prolonged and unnecessary exposure t… |
| 22-6742 | Jan M. Gawlik v. Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. | Connecticut | 2023-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conditions-of-confinement discrimination due-process first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom rluipa symbolic-expression | Whether the Connecticut Department of Corrections' policy of prohibiting incarcerated Catholics/Christians from openly displaying religious articles s… |
| 21-5101 | Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release | Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement |
| 20-8070 | Michael Mejia v. Randy Pfister, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process sleep-deprivation | Whether the application of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process … |
| 20-990 | Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees | Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson abrogated or modified the standard for evaluating pretrial detainees' claims challenging their conditions of confineme… |
| 20-465 | Young County, Texas, et al. v. Nichole Sanchez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement judicial-management monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability pretrial-detainee respondeat-superior section-1983 | Has the Fifth Circuit violated the dictates of Monell and its progeny by exposing Young County to liability based on a theory of respondeat superior? |
| 20-281 | Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement | Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement | |
| 19-8153 | Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-01 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses | Will conditions of confinement that demonstrate a pattern of misconduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments leading to suicidal impulses or urge… |
| 18-9714 | John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing | Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the 'squarely governing' case through a quote of a case with similar facts? |
| 18-8416 | Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit | Whether claims by prisoners challenging their conditions of confinement are cognizable in habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2241 |
| 18-760 | Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim should be evaluated under an objective or subjective standard |