continuance
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-7108 | Celeste M. Gonsalves v. Stuart B. Glauberman, by His Managing Agent, KFG Properties, Inc. | Hawaii | 2026-03-25 | Pending | IFP | Americans-with-Disabilities-Act continuance disability-discrimination due-process equal-access-to-courts reasonable-accommodation | Whether a state court violates Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fourteenth Amendment by denying a medically supported request f… |
| 25-6814 | Tony Minh Le v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuance district-court fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial-act | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit made a fair and lawful Speedy Trial Act ruling denying relief, without properly assessing the timing of … |
| 25A644 | Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act | Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), may be open-ended. | |
| 25-6259 | Sam Boyd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure | When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey… |
| 25A273 | Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion autism continuance due-process mental-disability pro-se | Whether and in what context a showing of actual prejudice is required in determining when a court abuses its discretion in failing to grant a continua… | |
| 24-6915 | George Valentino Sloan v. Washington | Washington | 2025-04-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights continuance due-process judicial-discretion speedy-trial trial-court | 1. Did the trial court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional right to a speedy trial when the trial court kept granting stated continuance motions o… |
| 23-7485 | William Glenn Chunn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assistance-of-counsel constitutional-violations continuance continuance-denial discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion | I. Whether a defendant's right to assistance of counsel and due process are upheld when he has no right to review discovery or confer with his attorne… |
| 23-5702 | Ian A. Milaski v. Florida | Florida | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | arbitrary-and-unreasonable continuance counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court | Whether the trial court's arbitrary and unreasonable denial of a continuance (i.e., "I have full confidence in [current defense counsel's] ability to … |
| 23-349 | Donald Esslinger, et ux. v. Shawn Bass, et ux. | Idaho | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 5th-amendment citizen-citation civil-procedure civil-rights continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parallel-proceedings self-incrimination summary-judgment | In an Idaho civil trespass case petitioners were denied a first-time continuance of a summary judgment hearing after they asserted their Fifth Amendme… |
| 23-5116 | Jeremy David Adams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | (I). Is the Sixth Circuit's new rule, in opposition to 7 other Courts of Appeals - that the protections of Speedy Trial Act 18 USC § 3161(h)(l)(H)'s 3… |
| 22-6152 | Carlos Edward Kennedy v. Carla Jones | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure continuance discretion forensic-evidence pro-se | Question not identified. |
| 21-949 | George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. v. Samuel Randolph | Third Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | continuance continuances counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court waiver | Whether this Honorable Court should grant review to decide an important question of federal law—whether a criminal defendant can forfeit or waive his … | |
| 20-7812 | Clive Patrick Bowen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuance criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment | 1. Does a district court violate the Sixth Amendment or otherwise err when it grants a defendant's motion to represent himself shortly before trial bu… |
| 20-7509 | Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance | Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court? |
| 20-7029 | Odell Kinard, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights continuance multi-defendant severance sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-rights trial-delay | Does Petitioner sacrifice his Sixth Amendment and statutory rights to a speedy trial by the District Court's repeated denial of his motion to sever hi… |
| 20-7012 | Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith | Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of… |
| 20-6294 | Richard L. Sealey v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial continuance continuance-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice trial-court-discretion | At the penalty phase of Mr. Sealey's capital trial, the State ended its case in aggravation earlier than expected. The defense made a motion for a bri… |
| 20-5325 | Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Where the State postconviction courts assessment of Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of counsel claim was "I guess the only potential issue would b… |
| 19-7992 | Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 | Alabama | 2020-03-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights | Whether a Citizen of the United States, have a right to "Due Process " under the law. Whether the fundamental principle of Fairness and Justice in al… |
| 19-1020 | Florence Bikundi v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act | 1. Whether a district court granting an ends-ofjustice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), violates the require… |
| 19-7416 | James P. Griffin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w | I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in arbitrarily denying a continuance of trial requested due to Petitioner's documented medical proble… |
| 19-7268 | Acharayya Rupak v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review | 1. This Court has held that the right to the retained counsel of one's choice is the "root meaning" of the Sixth Amendment guarantee. Here, the distri… |
| 19-7085 | Ratha Oeur v. County of Los Angeles, California | California | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion child-support continuance de-novo de-novo-review due-process family-law income-expense-declaration standard-of-review unexpected-event | Does this Court of Appeal's Opinion, to affirm the Trial Court's decision to make or modify a child support order without a current Income and Expense… |
| 19-7026 | James W. Guy v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-material civil-procedure civil-rights continuance discovery-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial first-amendment free-speech self-representation self-representing-defendant standing untimely-discovery | (1) Did a trial judge deny a self-representing defendant his due process right to a fair trial when the State disclosed untimely discovery documents … |
| 19-587 | Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion | Whether, notwithstanding the plain language of § 3161(h)(7) of the Speedy Trial Act and this Court's decision in Zedner, a district court may exclude … | |
| 19-556 | Lucas Allen Newnam v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-10-29 | Denied | bad-faith-inquiry bright-line-test continuance continuance-request counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay | In every jurisdiction in the United States- both federal and state- there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a contin… | |
| 19-5010 | Andrew Nelson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine | 1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that … |
| 18-8572 | Christopher Jones v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | community-control-violations community-controller constitutional-interpretation continuance counsel-of-choice due-process judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel speedy-trial statutory-analysis unconstitutional-conditions unrepresented-defendant violation-proceedings | 1. Whether there i8 wilthin the minimum requirements of due process, a minimum set of guidelines to be considered by a Court, in olation proceedings, … |
| 18-6362 | Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial | WHETHER THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT'S DECISIONS AND JUDGMENTS ARE FINAL UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECTION 1257. WHETHER CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTM… |